The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey is now accepting applications for its 2025 Arts & Community Health Grant to continue promoting the powerful role the arts can play in improving health.
Donor Name: Horizon Foundation for New Jersey
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The arts are an effective tool for conveying health messaging and encouraging healthy behaviors within a community. The goal is to support new and innovative arts programs to help empower the members and the communities they serve to achieve their best health. The Foundation supports programs that provide opportunities to engage the communities they serve in prevention, education, and awareness.
Areas of Focus
- Directly encourages healthy behaviors—physical and/or mental health
- Promotes greater dialogue on health—specifically the priority areas of obesity, behavioral health, or social determinants of health
- Educates, connects to, or raises awareness of available health services
- Makes health information more clear, memorable, and relevant to the community.
Funding Information
Grant range is up to $25,000 for a one-year program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts organizations that promote or leverage fine, visual, performing, and/or literary arts through programming that engages individuals, audience members or the community-at-large.
- Arts organizations with previous health-focused programming experience is welcome, but not required.
- Arts organizations may partner with a health or other organization to design and/or deliver programming; applicants must describe in detail the collaborative partnership in their proposal.
For more information, visit HFNJ.
