The Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC) is pleased to announce the Florida Health Literacy Initiative into its 15th year, providing grants to advance health literacy in adult ESOL and family literacy programs.
Donor Name: Florida Literacy Coalition (FLC)
State: Florida
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/06/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $5,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
The Florida Health Literacy Initiative is funded through a grant from the Florida Blue Foundation and managed by the Florida Literacy Coalition. The program provides training, resources, and funding to help Florida adult ESOL and family literacy programs integrate health education into their instruction. This national award-winning Initiative has collaborated with community providers to serve more than 20,000 students statewide, enabling these individuals to gain information and skills to make informed choices regarding their health and nutrition.
Florida Blue and the Florida Blue Foundation are committed to improving the health and well-being of all Floridians and seek to find real and meaningful solutions to some of the most critical social issues facing Florida’s communities. Because a literate, educated, and informed society is key to their state’s overall success, Florida Blue and the Florida Blue Foundation have made supporting family and healthy literacy programs a cornerstone of its community investments strategy.
Funding Information
The plan to award approximately fourteen grants of up to $5,000.
Project Period
Grant funds are used to support adult ESOL and/or family literacy program expenses over the twelve-month period beginning May 1, 2023 and ending April 30, 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations interested in applying must:
- Be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization or government-based agency (such as school districts and state/community colleges) that provides adult ESOL and/or family literacy instruction in Florida;
- Provide literacy services via classes, small groups, and/or one-to-one tutoring; and
- Commit to basic reporting requirements.
Entities and organizations ineligible to receive a Health Literacy grant include:
- Individuals;
- For-profit entities;
- Civic, fraternal, labor, and political organizations;
- Religious organizations, if funds will be used to educate/benefit a specific denomination or congregation or the group intends to proselytize to program participants and/or participants’ family members; and
- Groups that discriminate based on age, sex, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, or marital status.
NOTE: Agencies/organizations with multiple programs/sites (i.e. library systems, school districts, community colleges) may submit up to three applications for consideration per year.
For more information, visit Health Literacy Grant.