Through this Request for Proposals (RFP), NYSHealth will sponsor community-based organizations, health departments, and other low-resource organizations to attend and present at local, State, and national conferences related to connecting New Yorkers with the healthy food they need to thrive; empowering health care consumers; and meeting the needs of returning veterans and their families.
Donor Name: New York State Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Conference
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Grants Size: $4,000
Details:
The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has a broad mission to improve the health of New York State residents, especially the most vulnerable. To achieve meaningful impact, the Foundation makes grants, informs health care policy and practice, and spreads effective programs that work to improve New York’s health system. Most of the Foundation’s grantmaking is focused on two priority areas: connecting New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive and empowering health care consumers. NYSHealth also maintains an area of focus on veterans’ health to help meet the needs of returning veterans and their families.
- Healthy Food, Healthy Lives
- Northeast Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NEASDA) Annual Conference
- National WIC Association Annual Conference
- National Association of County and City Health Officials 360 Conference
- New York State Public Health Partnership Conference
- American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo
- Empowering Health Care Consumers
- The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference
- The Cleveland Clinic & HIMSS Patient Experience Summit
- 5th Annual Patient Experience Symposium
- Planetree’s International Conference on Patient-Centered Care
- Press Ganey 2021 National Client Conference
- National Patient Advocate Foundation’s Policy Consortium
- Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care’s Conference
- NGPX 2021: The Patient Experience Conference
- Veterans’ Health
- IDGA VA Healthcare 2021 Conference
- National Alliance on Mental Illness National Convention
- National Association of State Workforce Agencies Veterans Conference
- America’s Warrior Partnership Symposium
Funding Information
Scholarships of up to $2,000 per person will be available for up to 2 attendees at each organization (a maximum of $4,000). Scholarship funding will be used to cover the costs of registration fees, travel and lodging, and incidentals for attendees while at the conference. Indirect costs will not be considered.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include health departments, government agencies, community-based organizations, nonprofits, and other low-resource organizations. Applicants must be affiliated or employed through one of those organizations. For-profit organizations are not eligible for funding;
- Eligible applicants do not have to be past or current grantees of NYSHealth;
- Eligible applicants must be located in New York State;
- Conferences may be at the regional, State, or national level, but conferences located outside of the United States will not be considered;
- Applicants will be eligible for a one-time, nonrenewable award in this area. Funding from this award may not be used to cover conference or other related travel expenses that are already being supported through another funding source.
For more information, visit NYSHealth.