Advocacy Rapid Response Funding aims to fund short-term advocacy initiatives (three-to-nine months in length) that ensure Coloradans’ interests and priorities are front and center in shaping policy decisions that will have long-term impacts on creating health equity in Colorado.
Donor Name: The Colorado Health Foundation
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $15,000 to $75,000
Details:
Their funding focuses on populations whose health needs are not being met due to income, age, race, ethnicity, geography or other barriers. They evaluate grant applications that fit within or across their four focus areas: Maintain Healthy Bodies, Nurture Healthy Minds, Strengthen Community Health and Champion Health Equity.
Rapid Response funding focuses on advocacy work that reflects the following priorities:
- Creating equity in access to and use of high-quality, comprehensive primary care
- Supporting children to move their bodies safely and conveniently on a daily basis
- Enhancing services and supports that foster social-emotional development and resiliency of young children
- Ensuring teens and young adults have access to the resources they need to support healthy minds
- Ensuring adults have access to local recovery resources that promote healthy minds and productive lives
- Ensuring Coloradans have enough affordable, nutritious food
- Supporting access to affordable, safe and high-quality housing options
Funding Information
Grants typically range from $15,000 to $75,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Generally, we make grants to the following types of organizations:
- Colorado organizations classified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3)
- Colorado public agencies, including state and local governments
New or emerging organizations without 501(c)(3) status are permitted to apply through a tax-exempt organization acting as fiscal sponsor. The fiscal sponsor must maintain full discretion and control over any awarded grant funds and should have the organizational capacity to manage and accept the risks involved with fiscal sponsorship. Additionally, the project must be aligned with the fiscal sponsor’s charitable mission, and the fiscal sponsor’s Board must approve of the project as furthering the sponsor’s charitable mission prior to applying for a grant to the Colorado Health Foundation.
For more information, visit The Colorado Health Foundation