Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation’s Healthcare Workforce/Collective Impact Grants Program for organizations working to implement targeted and comprehensive educational, recruitment, retention and related programs to meet pressing needs in Louisiana’s healthcare workforce.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana
State: Louisiana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $250,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of Louisianians. In many Louisiana communities, there are critical shortages in the healthcare workforce (general practitioners, dentists, specialists, nurses, mental health providers and other allied health professionals).
Potential Project Components
- Project components should be tailored to an applicant community’s needs, driven by evidence and best practices. Applicants may want to consider:
- Educational efforts that attempt to prepare future generations of Louisianans to meet the identified gap
- Recruitment efforts that attempt to sustainably close the gap in healthcare workforce
- Retention efforts that slow or stop the loss in healthcare workforce
- Related efforts that aid in one of the above and/ or improve the healthcare workforce issue identified
Funding Information
Grants range from $250,000 to $1 million over three years (full awards will be made in one-third increments per each year of the project upon meeting annual performance benchmarks).
Eligibility Criteria
Louisiana-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit Healthcare Workforce/Collective Impact Grants.