New Horizons Grants support innovative approaches that either solve or more effectively address existing issues related to health, education or wellbeing.
Donor Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 03/01/2022
Size of the Grant: up to $25,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The Foundation recognizes the need to foster innovation as means of improving health and wellbeing in Louisiana. Through this program, they hope to encourage a research based and scientific approach to philanthropy through testing ideas and seeing what works. The first step in that process is challenging the status quo with new ideas.
Their goal is to find exciting, emerging ideas and social startups that have the potential to disrupt negative trends in health, education and other issues that directly impact quality of life for Louisianians. A successful New Horizons project may make changes in policies, norms practices and social supports; it may also be a new pilot intervention, plan or approach.
A New Horizons Grant project could include, but is not limited to:
- Creating a resource that doesn’t currently exist;
- Creating and/or piloting a service that doesn’t currently exist;
- Taking an existing resource or service that isn’t currently effective and implementing it in a new way or field; or
- Conducting research that has not been conducted to date.
Funding Information
Grants are less than $25,000 in support of projects that take less than one year to complete.
Eligibility Criteria
Only Louisiana-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations may apply.
For more information, visit New Horizons Grant.