Healthy Births, Healthy Communities Funding Opportunity Grant

The Healthy Births, Healthy Communities Funding Opportunity aims to enhance maternal health in Central Texas by supporting community-based organizations that provide culturally responsive perinatal health services. This initiative seeks to empower pregnant women, particularly women of color, facing systemic barriers to quality care. By fostering collaboration among various stakeholders, including healthcare providers and advocacy groups, the program intends to build regional capacity and improve overall maternal health outcomes, with a total funding of up to $7M available.

Healthy births are the cornerstone of healthy communities. Healthy births are an essential element of advancing health equity in Central Texas.
The goal of Healthy Births, Healthy Communities funding opportunity seeks to increase regional capacity in Central Texas to provide culturally responsive, community-informed perinatal health support within and beyond clinics to improve maternal health and birth outcomes.
This funding opportunity is designed to strengthen trust, foster collaboration, and support cross-sector partnerships among community-based organizations, healthcare providers, advocacy and policy organizations, and individuals with lived experience.
The Foundation expects to award up to a total of $7M for this open call. Each awardee will receive a flexible, one-time, 24-month grant.