AHA: Rapid Response Funding

_NOTE: Interested applicants should contact us to request a pre-screening call with a National Consultant, after which selected organizations may be invited to complete an application._

Rapid Response Funding

Rapid Response requests support critically timed needs of mature campaigns in push-for-passage mode (strategic time in final states of a policy passing) or to support a defensive campaign that would prevent a harmful policy from being passed. Funding is designed to support strategically targeted needs such as grassroots organizing, coalition building, polling, and media relations of campaigns as the campaign is in its final stages.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Applicants must be nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Rapid Response grants are open to campaigns not currently or previously funded by Voices for Healthy Kids for the requested policy lever.
• Campaigns must have exhausted all other resources available and establish that critical resources are needed for a final push to passage during the end stage of a legislative or regulatory campaign or a defensive campaign.
• Applications must be specific to an individual campaign for public policy change in a tribe, state or local geographic area supporting one Voices for Healthy Kids policy priorities.

Ineligibility

• We are unable to fund private foundations, non-functionally integrated Type III supporting organizations, or government agencies (including public schools, state universities, etc.).