Building Healthy Futures Fund Grant

The Building Healthy Futures Fund aims to enhance the health and academic success of school-age youth by improving access to quality healthcare. This initiative prioritizes collaboration among community stakeholders to address healthcare needs, focusing on mental health and overall wellness. With a minimum grant size of $50,000, the program supports innovative projects that foster health access, and promote student well-being, while ensuring all children thrive in their educational environments.

Childhood healthcare can play a major role in overall health, academic achievement, and economic stability throughout their lifetime.
The Building Healthy Futures grant program supports learning for school-age youth by improving access to quality healthcare.
Mission: Promoting holistic and collaborative care to nurture student well-being and empower academic achievement.
Collaboration with Purpose: Intentionally fostering a network that unites funders, service providers, public schools, and other stakeholders to sustain a collective approach to addressing the healthcare and educational needs of the Omaha community.Breaking Down Barriers: Providing funding that directly enhances access to quality healthcare.
Focus Areas
This grant program supports the following focus areas:

• Health Access: Programming and advocacy efforts that ensure every child has access to needed and adequate primary, vision, dental, and hearing care.

Mental Health: Programming that promotes protective factors around mental health risks, ensures equitable access to mental health treatment services, and supports the normalization of self-care and mental health care.
Investment decisions are made for organizations or projects with the following considerations:

• Innovative efforts to provide health support for school-age youth who have limited access
• Connection to a health need or gap in service for school-age youth
• Addresses a healthcare issue at a systems level
• Thoughtful collaboration with partners to realize impact
• Award Size: $50,000 minimum for programmatic support
• Grants are awarded yearly, with the opportunity to consider multi-year requests based on the nature and impact of the grant request.

Eligibility

Eligibility and Award RequirementsPublic, tax-exempt organization as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, OR working with a 501(c)(3) fiscal agent who can receive funds on your behalfMust provide services to Omaha Public Schools students and/or their families. Services do not necessarily need to occur within Omaha Public Schools’ buildings.Applicants’ policies and practices must be in alignment with the following non-discrimination clause: the applicant organization does not discriminate in hiring practices or service provision to clients and/or customers based on race, ethnicity, religious preference, age, [mental, emotional, or physical] ability/disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military service, or gender.