CARESTAR Grant Program

Overview

**What We Are Working to Achieve
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We are reimagining emergency and prehospital care that is equitable, unified, compassionate, with a focus on elevating community voice and power, building a movement, and catalyzing systems change, with racial equity at the center of our work. Through our efforts, and in partnership with community-based organizations, state and local agencies, and other key stakeholders, we aim to achieve the following:

* Individual Californians: trust emergency and prehospital care organizations, confidently engaging with them without fear, and receiving appropriate care and services tailored to their needs.
* Communities: have the voice, power, and influence to transform emergency and pre-hospital care to work for them.
* The System: of emergency and prehospital care in California prioritizes community involvement, working with both communities and other healthcare providers to meet local health and safety needs.
* Local and State Policies: codify and incentivize innovation and community-centered care to improve equity in the emergency and prehospital care system.

Our Giving Area

To achieve our mission, CARESTAR is focused on investing in the systems, processes, and policies that guide and comprise emergency response in California. Our giving areas aredesigned to activate real and lasting change to ensure that all people experience emergency and prehospital care that is equitable, unified, and compassionate.

In addition to the outlined areas below, we also support several strategic partnerships focused on engaging communities as catalysts for systemic transformation, and key initiatives reimagining emergency and prehospital care with a racial equity lens.

Research

We fund research identifying gaps, challenges, best practices, and innovations to bring greater racial equity to emergency and prehospital care.

Collaboratives

We fund multi-sector collaboratives that test new ideas, center community voices, and catalyze new and better ways for Californians to engage, receive, and experience equitable emergency response and care.

Workforce

We fund initiatives to build a more diverse and inclusive EMS workforce in California, to better reflect communities served.

Policy

We fund state and local policy initiatives, and partner with advocacy organizations, to incentive innovation and equitable, community centered care.

Generally speaking, we award unrestricted, multi-year grants as much as possible, offering the following types of funding:

* General Operating Grants – to support organizations that are in alignment with our mission, vision and priorities. 
* Project/Program Grants – to support specific work, or programs, that are in alignment with our mission, vision and priorities. 
* We maintain a 15% indirect rate cap for project grants.
* Specific Awards and Initiatives – these grants have specific focus areas and application processes. They are announced periodically throughout the year on our website and via social media.

Eligibility

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

* Your organization must operate in California