BHF Solutions at Scale Grants

The Better Health Foundation's Solutions at Scale Grants aim to significantly enhance community health across the 9-county Quad Cities region. These grants support initiatives with proven effectiveness and encourage collaborations among nonprofit organizations focusing on regional health challenges. Grant cycles occur biennially, inviting proposals in February and awarding grants in August. Eligible organizations can apply to implement impactful solutions, such as widespread suicide prevention programs, benefiting diverse populations and improving overall community health.

Note: 1) Solutions at Scale grants will be awarded in a summer cycle every two years. 2) The invitation to submit a Letter of Inquiry will take place in February of the granting year. 3) Full proposals will be invited in March, and grants will be made in August.
Solutions at Scale grants are intended to enable initiatives with clear evidence of effectiveness to be adopted throughout the region by a significant number of organizations serving a significant number of communities. The Foundation will be deeply involved in identifying and structuring these issues as a true substantive partner in the proposal process. The priority will be to grow solutions that have proven evidence of success, either in the region or nationally.
Focus
We seek partners that will use our grant investments to produce concrete, material results for the betterment of health in communities within the region.
An example of a Solutions at Scale grant might be to deploy across the region to every veteran a nationally recognized suicide prevention program. The focus is on solutions that affect many people covering a large geographic area.

Eligibility

Eligible organizations
Nonprofit organizations providing services that address community health in our 9-county region are encouraged to apply for funding.(IA COUNTIES: Cedar, Clinton, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott; IL COUNTIES: Henry, Mercer, Rock Island, Whiteside) While affiliates in the region tied to national organizations are welcome to apply, the services and the funds must be wholly focused on the region.
Collaborations
We recognize that innovative partnerships may involve organizations or associations who are not 501(c)3 organizations. We encourage and welcome such partnerships, but the grantee should be a designated 501(c)3. If the proposal involves partnerships where funds are flowing to other partners from the core grantee, co-signed Memoranda of Understanding must be included in the proposal between the core grantee and each of the partners indicating the level and purposes of resource transfer.

Ineligibility

Grants are not awarded to individuals or to fiscal agents (pass through organizations) The Foundation does not consider proposals for the following:Political campaigns or lobbying effortsSponsorships or eventsConferences and ConveningsEndowmentsBuilding or Capital projects and campaignsDebt ReductionExclusively religious purposes, although service-providing, faith-based organizations are welcome to apply regarding those service purposesLaboratory or clinical research or individual academic support (e.g., dissertation support)Competitor organizations to the Genesis, MercyOne, or Trinity Health Systems