Dogwood Health Trust: Collaboration & Innovation Grant

The Dogwood Health Trust: Collaboration & Innovation Grant aims to support innovative collaborations addressing the challenges faced by Western North Carolina communities post-Hurricane Helene. With grant sizes ranging from $50,000 to $500,000, this initiative focuses on fostering community-wide networks that enhance housing, education, and health. It prioritizes resources for underserved communities, encourages creative solutions, and strengthens coalitions to improve systemic responses to local needs, ensuring impactful and sustainable outcomes.

Investing in Collaborations and Possibilities in a Post-Helene Environment
People and organizations in our region have a long history of working collaboratively and creatively to improve the health and wellbeing of Western North Carolina communities and to advance opportunity and access. In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, Dogwood is committed to a sustained and coordinated response that ensures resources reach the people, organizations and communities most affected. This grant opportunity will support both emergent and established collaborations responding to the challenges and opportunities from Helene, especially imagining new possibilities for the WNC region.
It will:
Support community-wide networks of people and organizations that are developing and implementing innovative ideas and models within housing, education, economic opportunity, and health and wellness.
Direct resources to courageous solutions centering the needs of people, organizations and communities that have experienced disinvestment and disconnection.
Strengthen collaborative efforts and networks that lay the groundwork for coalitions engaged in creative, systemic analysis and action.
Support leaders within organizations and communities who are working in integrated ways, building coalitions, and resolving complex challenges with creative solutions.
Grant sizes will range from $50,000 to $500,000, with up to 20% of funds available for flexible administrative funding and the balance (80% or more) for collaborative funding. Grants can be used for 12-24 months.

Eligibility

A single organization – the Hub Applicant – will apply on behalf of the collaborative. Hub Applicants may be 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charities, fiscal sponsorship organizations, government and governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, or colleges and universities.