The 2025 Special Projects Fund awards are one-time, nonrenewable funding opportunities supporting projects that address important and emerging health care and public health issues that fall outside the three priority areas.
Donor Name: New York Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Foundation concentrates most of the grantmaking in three strategic priority areas: Primary Care; Healthy Food, Healthy Lives; and Veterans’ Health. They also engage in responsive grantmaking through the Special Projects Fund. They seek to partner with a wide range of organizations implementing projects that can improve health at the local, regional, or statewide levels. The most competitive applications are requests for projects and initiatives that have strong potential for replication, scaling, and/or implications for policy and systems change.
Funding Information
Funding requests can range from $50,000 to a maximum of $300,000. Special Projects Fund grants are typically in the $200,000 range.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant is a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)(3) IRS designation or a for-profit organization with a significant ability to have impact in New York State.
- Project directly aligns with NYHealth’s mission, with a focus on improving the health of New Yorkers who have been historically marginalized.
- Applicant clearly articulates a pressing community need, an opportunity to address a gap, and a strategy to create long-term, systemic change.
- Applicant clearly articulates goals, timelines, objectives, and measurable outcomes.
- Project has an effective evaluation plan, including measures for local, regional, or statewide impact.
- Applicant has experience, potential, and readiness to complete the project successfully.
- Applicant builds collaboration among organizations and demonstrates meaningful community input and participation in the design and implementation of the project.
- Project has a strong potential for replication elsewhere in New York State or nationally.
- Applicant articulates how the project will be financially and programmatically sustained after the onetime grant support from NYHealth ends.
- Applicant demonstrates how and why the initiative represents a special opportunity for NYHealth funding.
- Applicant demonstrates a degree of creativity or innovation.
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