Legacy Fdn. of Southeast AZ: Innovative Grants

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona offers Innovative Grants aimed at enhancing population health and community wellness, funding projects up to $50,000. Emphasizing collaboration, the foundation supports initiatives that engage community partnerships, address health-related issues, and create sustainable solutions. Eligible proposals must directly benefit residents of Cochise and eastern Santa Cruz Counties, demonstrating innovation in program design or implementation. This grant encourages creative approaches to improve the community's overall health and resilience.

Note: Grant Workshop is MANDATORY for first time applicants.
Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona
The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona has been helping to serve the needs of Southeast Arizona since it was founded in July of 1963 as “Western Baptist Hospital of Sierra Vista and Cochise County” which was the only acute care hospital in Sierra Vista. Later the hospital was renamed Sierra Vista Regional Health Center and served as a regional medical center for many years.
As of May 1, 2013, with the transfer of the operations of the hospital and associated health care services to the new operator of Canyon Vista Medical Center, and using the assets of Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, the Legacy Foundation was initiated and began its new mission of promoting population health and well being in Southeast Arizona.
Every year the Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona funds Innovation Grants for projects up to $50,000 that are aligned with the Foundation Mission of Promoting Population Health and Community Wellness.
Collaboration and forging partnerships with other community organizations are key determinants in funding decisions.
The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona encourages proposals that:
Convene organizations and collaborate on how best to address the Innovative project.Engage innovative, mission-driven collaborations/partnerships.Increase community capacity by identifying and addressing issues affecting community health and wellbeing.Consider how you might design systems and policies to improve health where we live, learn, work, worship and play.Consider not only issues affecting basic physical needs, community outreach, and access to services, but consider them in terms of incorporating how you might improve the environmental, social, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, and emotional (behavioral and health infrastructure) conditions that impact determinants of health and enable community members to be healthy and resilient.Create a solution to the problem being addressed that can be sustained beyond the term of the grant funding

Eligibility

The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona encourages proposals that positively impact population health and community wellness in Cochise and eastern Santa Cruz Counties.All organizations requesting grants must provide services that directly benefit populations residing in Cochise County and eastern Santa Cruz Counties.
Innovative Projects must meet at least one of the following criteria:
New and innovative way to perform existing programNew idea that's never been triedProject creates new collaborative partnershipsNew program for your organizationNew project for your organization