Innovation Grant Program
Funding Amount
Up to US $25,000
Deadline
Rolling / Open
Grant Type
Foundation
Can we apply?
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Other requirements
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Overview
The Innovation Grant Program by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation aims to enhance the health and wellbeing of Louisianians through innovative projects. Grants, typically under $25,000, support new ideas and interventions that can potentially disrupt negative trends in health and education. This initiative promotes a research-based approach to philanthropy, encouraging applicants to challenge the status quo with fresh, impactful solutions. Projects are expected to be completed within a year.
Purpose
Innovation grants are made to innovative, new projects to improve the health and wellbeing of Louisianians.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation (Louisiana Blue Foundation) recognizes the need to foster innovation as a means of improving health and wellbeing in Louisiana. Through this program, we hope to encourage a research based and scientific approach to philanthropy through testing ideas and seeing what works. The first step in that process is challenging the status quo with new ideas.
A successful Innovation grant project may be a new pilot intervention, plan or approach.
Amount
Grants are generally less than $25,000 in support of projects that take less than one year to complete.
Eligibility
We've imported the main document for this grant to give you an overview. You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.What Blue Cross & Blue Shield actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 62
- Total given
- $3.05M
- Median grant
- $33K
- Range
- $1,000–$360K
- By dollars: Louisiana 98%, New York 2%. Top recipient cities: Baton Rouge, LA; New Orleans, LA; Lake Charles, LA.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 41% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Northwestern State University · Natchitoches, LA
Collective impact grant
$360K
Together Louisiana · New Orleans, LA
Community crisis & disaster response grant
$250K
McNeese State University Foundation · Lake Charles, LA
Collective impact grant
$121K
Launch · Denham Spring, LA
Special project grant
$100K
Operation Restoration · New Orleans, LA
Special project grant
$100K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Healthcare
- Quality of life
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