The Rhode Island Foundation is offering Fund for Healthy Rhode Island (FHRI) Grants to support place-based collaborations and innovative cross-sector initiatives.
Visions
The Health in Rhode Island vision includes four
main priorities.
- Provide the most appropriate
care for people in the most appropriate setting.
- Focus upstream on root causes
and invest in affordable housing, food security, and transportation to
address underlying inequities and influencers of health disparities.
- Improve behavioral health
outcomes by focusing on access to care, coordination of care, and
prevention.
- Reduce wasteful spending in
order to redirect those resources to social determinants and improve
affordability.
Categories
- Place-based collaborations
addressing the effects of COVID-19 on the behavioral health of children and
adolescents.
- The impacts of COVID-19 on
children and adolescent mental health has both short- and long-term
effects on wellbeing and overall health. A range of social and economic
stressors, including prolonged social isolation, lack of predictability and
stability related to pandemic mitigation strategies, has
disproportionately impacted vulnerable populations including those with
pre-existing behavioral health needs and those in underserved
communities.
- Priorities
- Support continued and
expanded collaborations. Funding can be used in support of existing
collaborations that seek to continue and/or expand to include additional
partners. Partnership with a local school district is preferred (though
not required), and partners should have a demonstrated history of focus
on behavioral health prevention.
- A focus on equity.
Collaborations are expected to serve communities that are
disproportionately impacted by behavioral health issues and underserved
by behavioral health supports.
- Meaningful participation from
the population served. Applicants must actively engage and incorporate
the perspective of the population they are serving (e.g., children and
adolescents, and their families).
- Responsiveness to a specific
behavioral health need with a focus on root causes. Applicants need to
identify and validate the specific needs they will be working to
address, including how it has been exacerbated by the impacts of
COVID-19, and should focus on the strategies targeted at the social,
environmental, and economic determinants of behavioral health.
- Commitment to measurement and
data sharing between partners. Partnerships are expected to use and
share data to understand the effectiveness of interventions and their
contributions to change.
- Funding Information
- Proposals may be for projects
that are one or two years in duration, and up to $125,000 per year.
Approximately three to four grants are expected to be awarded.
- Year 1
(Jan 2022 – Dec 2022)
- Year 2
(Jan 2023 – Dec 2023)
- New housing-focused
partnerships that improve health outcomes for older populations and adults
with disabilities, with particular focus on addressing behavioral health
needs.
- The Foundation welcomes
proposals that seek to build and strengthen cross-sector partnerships
focused on implementing emerging housing and service models to better
serve Rhode Island’s older populations and adults with disabilities, with
a focus on integrating behavioral health services into those models.
- Priorities
- Directly and flexibly support
new partnerships. The primary goal is to provide an incentive for new
partnerships that have the ability to propose and implement approaches
by breaking down barriers that have prevented these partnerships from
coalescing in the past.
- Support collective impact and
accountability between partners. Partners will identify shared goals and
outcomes as a means to increase adoption of evidence-based models that
can serve Rhode Island’s older populations.
- Identify of innovative pilots
and proven models, both within Rhode Island and elsewhere. They are
seeking promising partnerships that have the capacity to implement
pilots and models, with a focus on efforts that leverage and coordinate
resources across disciplines, remove barriers to the use of these
resources and document outcomes of new models for resource allocation.
- Initiatives that empower
community. Respond to the needs and priorities of residents impacted by
the plan by ensuring resident voice is part of the planning process. It
is important that there is familiarity, trust, and engagement with the
population targeted through the proposed initiatives.
- Ability to identify and
prioritize shared outcomes and data. Linking the role of housing to
health equity encompasses a broad and diverse set of outcomes, and
partners should identify outcomes and impact associated with proposed
programming to understand long term changes.
- Funding Information
- Proposals may be for projects
one or two years in duration, and up to $75,000 per year. Approximately
three to four grants are expected to be awarded. Funding and reporting
periods will be structured as follows:
- Year 1
(Jan 2022 – Dec 2022)
- Year 2
(Jan 2023 – Dec 2023)
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, 501(c) organizations
located in the state of Rhode Island are eligible to apply.
- The FHRI does not fund
individuals, scholarships or research, endowment efforts, or fundraising
events.
- Grants may support faith-based
organizations for secular programs or projects.
- Research as part of a program
evaluation is permitted, however, Institutional Review Board (IRB)
approval or exemption must be obtained where human subjects are involved.
- The Rhode Island Foundation
believes that the community can best be served by charitable organizations
that both reflect and serve the diversity of the community. They do not
award grants to applicants or for programs that have a policy that
discriminates against any person or group in any way that is either
unlawful or inconsistent with the mission or values of the Foundation.
- Organizations that are awarded
a grant from the FHRI ARE eligible to apply to the Rhode Island Foundation
for other grant support.
- Please note: Applications will
not be considered from organizations with overdue Rhode Island Foundation
grant reports.
Post Date: 07-Sep-2021