Funding Opportunity: Community-initiated Solutions

Funding Overview

At The Colorado Health Foundation, 我们认为，将公平作为我们工作的核心，将使我们更加健康. 我们知道，所有社区都有自己独特的资产，通常都有解决自身健康方面挑战的最佳想法. 当社区成员自己发现问题，然后努力产生和实施解决方案时, they are able to raise their collective voice and strengthen their own power. 由此产生的由社区发起的解决方案更有可能服务于特定社区的需求，并显示出更长期的影响.

However, 社区变革的努力往往是由“为”或“为”社区成员工作的组织进行的, 而不是与他们“合作”或由社区成员自己“合作”.

With this funding opportunity, 基金会直接接触社区成员和通过伙伴关系支持他们行动的组织. Given the Foundation’s intent to advance health equity, 以有色人种社区为中心的提案应优先考虑. 我们希望通过实施由社区成员主导决策的解决方案，为提高卫生公平并导致更健康社区的想法提供资金. 我们希望为人民自己提供机会，解决直接影响他们生活的健康挑战. 本基金会没有决定将选择哪种健康重点/挑战, or suggesting the approach to solving it. 我们希望社区成员自己确定他们想要解决的健康问题，并带头实施解决方案.

Thus, 申请可以要求资金支持社区成员确定的一系列项目和/或项目，以应对自身的健康挑战. As part of these proposed programs and/or projects identified, 我们要求组织与社区成员合作:

Address a health challenge
Develop and implement a solution
Leverage existing strengths and resources
Improve health equity

Proposed programs and/or projects must reflect the Foundation’s cornerstones. 这些概述了我们服务的对象，我们的工作是如何被告知的，以及我们创造的意图 health equity.

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Focus Area

Strengthen Community Health

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Grant Deadlines

Jun 15, 2022

Jun 15, 2023

Criteria

要获得资助，机构必须符合以下条件:

Aligns with our cornerstones; priority given to proposals demonstrating partnership “with” or “by” people of color.
Clarify the specific issue/challenge and how it impacts health.
说明社区成员确定了健康挑战，并提出了解决方案.
阐明如何实施计划/项目，以及谁是领导工作的社区成员.
解释建议的解决方案如何不仅可行，而且在社区现有的能力范围内. (将优先考虑建立和利用现有社区能力来成功实施解决方案的建议.)
Demonstrate how the solution will improve health equity

Examples of organizations considered for funding:

Community-based groups or nonprofit organizations (at this time, 没有501(c)(3)非营利地位的社区团体或社区组织将需要与财政赞助商合作).
其他能够表现出对社区确定和社区主导的解决复杂健康问题和/或挑战的努力作出重大承诺的申请人.

We often partner with third-party evaluators, 承包商和其他组织在我们的工作过程中与申请人和受助人. 您的申请及其附件可能在审查过程和授予周期中与这些个人或实体共享. 所有与本基金会合作的第三方机构均已签署保密协议，不得将该信息用于赠款申请或赠款奖励的具体工作范围之外的目的. 如果您有任何疑问或想了解更多信息，请发送电子邮件至grants@www.friendshipday2014s.com or call our senior director of Grantmaking Operations at .

Definitions

Community:任何规模的社会群体，其成员居住在一个特定的共享地点, and often have common characteristics, interests and/or cultural and historical heritage.

Health equity: Health equity exists when there are no unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, unjust or systemically-caused differences in health status.

Local/locality: A community belonging or relating to a particular geographic area, specifically at the sub-regional level, and commonly described as neighborhood, sub-area, district, town, city, municipality or county; or a distinct population found at the sub-regional level.

People of Color (POC): Refers to Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American and Multiracial communities.

Power: At its core, 权力的定义是:1)以特定方式做某事或行动的能力2)指导或影响他人的行为或事件的过程.

We encourage all applicants to sign up 在我们的奖助金管理系统中确认注册至少要在提交奖助金申请前一周完成. Apply for funding by 5 p.m. MDT on June 15, 2022. Applications submitted in advance of deadlines (Feb. 15, June 15 and Oct. 15) are not reviewed until the deadline has passed.