Innovation Grant Program

Innovation Grant Program

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
Amount: Up to US $25,000
Last Updated: January 20, 2026

Summary

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.

Overview

The mission of the Louisiana Blue Foundation is to promote the wellness and wellbeing of Louisianians by supporting health-related causes. Innovation Grant Program 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. Our goal is to find exciting, emerging ideas and social startup initiatives that have the potential to disrupt negative trends in health, education and other issues that directly impact quality of life for Louisianians. 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

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