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 Foundation has a strong interest in how collaborative models can help address their community’s complex health challenges. The Foundation believes that organizational collaboration holds unique promise for driving innovation and making a significant impact on community health.
CSHF defines collaboration as: Multiple organizations, perspectives and disciplines formed and working together in pursuit of a common goal that could not be achieved individually. Collaboration is bigger than partnerships; it is more than a memorandum of understanding.
Collaboration is best used to address complex problems through systems change. It is difficult, resource-intensive, and time-consuming. As such, it is an approach that should be pursued sparingly and thoughtfully, only when the challenge warrants this level of investment. Principles of collective impact, when applied, have been shown to improve a collaboration’s ability to achieve real and measurable progress.
This funding opportunity is designed to support new or existing collaborative efforts whose shared purpose aligns with one of CSHF’s funding focus areas.
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.
Collaboration applicants with the following attributes are considered more competitive:
- The purpose behind the collaboration aligns tightly with one of CSHF’s funding focus areas
- The collaboration addresses a key community health challenge that requires the intentional and combined efforts of diverse organizations, perspectives and disciplines for its resolution
- The collaboration applies principles of the collective impact model, including backbone functions.
- Participating organizations contribute resources (in-kind or cash) to the effort
- The work involves evidence-based practices, whenever possible
- The collaboration has transformative potential
For more information, visit Request for Proposals.