Healthy Births, Healthy Communities Funding Opportunity Grant

Healthy Births, Healthy Communities Funding Opportunity Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: St Davids Foundation
Last Updated: August 17, 2025

Summary

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.

Overview

Healthy Births, Healthy Communities Funding Opportunity Strengthening the maternal health ecosystem in Central Texas. Healthy births are the cornerstone of healthy communities. They impact not just the immediate well-being of the baby and parent, but also shape long-term health outcomes, stability, and well-being of entire 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. We aim to resource trusted, community-based organizations and networks that are advancing culturally relevant, community-led solutions that serve pregnant women, especially pregnant women of color, who face systemic barriers to quality care and healthy birth outcomes. Regional capacity means that Central Texas has the infrastructure and resources needed to support mothers facing the greatest health needs during the perinatal period. Building regional capacity requires strong, committed organizations working together across diverse roles—including direct services, advocacy and policy, community organizing, and systems coordination. 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. We are interested in supporting organizations that: Focus on pregnant and postpartum women, especially women of color, in our five-county area, particularly those in the highest need zip codes based on Health Equity Zone data.Work within a specific area or areas in the maternal health ecosystem — including direct services — either clinical or community-based, advocacy and policy change, community organizing, and systems coordination and integration.Are community-led or community-rooted; meaning that decisions and actions of the organization are driven by the needs, voices, and interests of community members who are most impacted by maternal health and birth inequities.Work in collaboration with other partners to improve the maternal health ecosystem — including clinical and non-clinical care — based on the awareness that an interconnected web of systems and factors in Central Texas influence a woman’s health during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.Work with cultural competence to address the health needs and non-medical drivers of health that impact disparities in maternal and birth equity.Use both quantitative data and lived experience to help inform and measure its approach to addressing disparities in birth and maternal health outcomes. 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.

Eligibility

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