The Colorado Springs Health Foundation makes grants to target immediate health care needs and encourage healthy living in El Paso and Teller Counties, Colorado.
Donor Name: Colorado Springs Health Foundation
State: Colorado
County: El Paso County (CO) and Teller County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Details:
The Colorado Springs Health Foundation is offering an ongoing funding opportunity aimed at investing in organizational capacity-building or technical assistance.
The Foundation acknowledges that organizations addressing the health and well-being of their community need to invest in their own capacities, competencies and skills in order to do this important work well.
The purpose is to help organizations function more effectively.
Examples of capacity-building or technical assistance projects include but are not limited to:
- Planning, e.g. strategic, operational, succession or other key transitions, fund development, etc.
- Assessing impact (evaluation)
- Board and/or staff development related to improving governance and management, e.g. board governance training, leadership coaching, staff training, cultural inclusiveness work, etc.
- Merger, dissolution or other restructuring efforts
- Communication strategies
- Process improvement work (e.g. LEAN)
Focus Areas
- Colorado Springs Health Foundation has identified four funding focus areas. These areas align with the Foundation’s mission, community need, community and stakeholder input, and the population health framework described above.
- Expand access to healthcare for those in greatest need. This includes care for physical, mental, oral and/or substance use disorder-related concerns. It also includes initiatives to address the healthcare workforce shortage.
- Prevent suicide
- Cultivate healthy environments in high-need or underserved communities, specifically and exclusively:
- Efforts that encourage greater physical activity
- Efforts that increase access to healthy, affordable food
- Efforts that increase or retain transitional or permanent affordable housing
- Prevent or heal trauma.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organizations must be one of the following:
- Tax-exempt (501(c)3)
- Operating under the fiscal agency of a tax-exempt organization
- Tax-supported like a school or local/state government
- Applicant organizations must serve either El Paso and/or Teller Counties, Colorado.
- Grant requests must align with Colorado Springs Health Foundation’s mission and its funding focus areas, described above.
- In general, Colorado Springs Health Foundation will consider all types of grant requests (general operating, program, capital, capacity-building/technical assistance, etc.).
- Grant size (amount approved) varies significantly. Colorado Springs Health Foundation prefers not to provide sole, majority and/or continuous funding for a request.
Proposals with the following attributes will be considered more competitive:
- Tight alignment with one of Colorado Springs Health Foundation’s funding focus areas
- Clear logic between how the capacity-building/technical assistance work will improve the organization’s potential for making a significant, positive impact on community health
- Good-faith commitment to engage fully in the capacity-building/technical assistance effort(s) and to integrate the learnings/implications into the organization’s future work
- Current funded partners (grantees) are eligible to apply. Organizations that have an application pending with CSHF are eligible to apply. Organizations that are not current or past funded partners are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Call for Proposals.