The Healy Foundation is accepting applications for grants to mitigate climate change, protect ecosystems, educate and advocate for youth and reduce child poverty.
Donor Name: The Healy Foundation
State: Hawaii and Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
Funding Priorities
- Youth: Youth education, youth advocacy and reducing childhood poverty – these are the broad funding focus areas for their grants supporting youth. While they do make exceptions, in general they prioritize the following in each category:
- Education: school-based programs for youth focused on educational attainment. They also reserve a small portion of their education grants budget for development of youth leaders.
- Advocacy: organizations working to support foster youth and prevent and treat child abuse.
- Reducing poverty: in the short term, organizations focused on childhood hunger; in the long-term, educational attainment and family support such as housing and education support.
- Environment: The environmental grants support climate change mitigation and organizations working to protect ecosystems. They recognize both represent huge issues with multiple strategies to address. In general they prioritize grants in the following way:
- Protecting Ecosystems: organizations working on habitat restoration and clean water protection. They also reserve a small portion of their environmental grants to support the next generation of environmental stewards.
- Climate Change Mitigation: In Hawaiʻi they focus on organizations working towards mitigation strategies. In Oregon they include mitigation strategies as well with a particular emphasis on policy implementation and defense.
- Community: The great majority of their grant budget goes towards grants in support of youth and/or the environment. However, they do award a small amount of community grants, typically in response to an acute need. An example is that, at the onset of the pandemic, they made grants to community organizations addressing the dramatic spike in hunger.
Funding Information
Maximum grant award is $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
They can’t tell you if you’ll be funded before you apply, but they can help you decide if your organization is a fit.
- Does your organization work in Hawaiʻi and/or Oregon? (It is OK if your organization works in a broader area and does a portion of work in Hawaiʻi and/or Oregon.)
- Does your organization work in one or more of the following areas: climate change mitigation, protecting ecosystems, youth advocacy, youth education, or reducing childhood poverty?
If you answered yes to both questions, your organization is eligible to apply.
For more information, visit The Healy Foundation.