Funding Amount

$25,000 - $50,000

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Health Justice Initiative Grants

Purpose: Create projects that uplift health justice by engaging multiple partners to foster change for specific community-level health injustices.

Award Amount: $25,000 - $50,000

Geographic Scope: Perry County, Central and Western Cumberland County, Northern Adams County, and the greater Shippensburg area

Funder: Partnership for Better Health, Carlisle, PA 17013

Contact: Carol Thornton, Director of Grants and Public Policy

  • Email: [email protected]

  • Phone: 717-960-9009 x7
  • Focus Areas:

  • Health justice and health equity

  • Multi-partner collaborations

  • Laws and policies creating health inequities

  • Community-level health injustices
  • Eligible Project Activities:
    1. Address laws and policies that have historically created health inequities
    2. Generate new laws and policies aimed at creating a more health-equitable future
    3. Provide direct service addressing needs caused by health injustice

    Required Elements:

  • Commitment to engaging multiple partners

  • Focus on fostering change for specific community-level health injustice

  • Demonstrated community need
  • Background: Initiative launched March 2023 to address systemic health inequities in the region. Represents Partnership's role as catalyst, advocate, and collaborator.

    How to Apply

    Application Process

    1. Request complete Request for Applications document
    2. Complete application with required elements
    3. Submit by deadline

    Required Materials:

  • Project description addressing health injustice

  • Evidence of community need and injustice

  • Multi-partner engagement plan

  • How project addresses laws/policies OR creates new policies OR provides direct services

  • Budget and timeline

  • Organizational capacity
  • Submission: Visit Grants page for application materials or contact Carol Thornton

    Support: Staff available to discuss application approach and community partnerships.

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    nonprofitshealth-disparitiessocial-justice

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