Leighton Memorial Grant Award

Overview

_NOTE: Please note that this grant program is currently closed to new applications in 2024 as we move into a two-year cycle to ensure the time and space for new partnership development.
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The Leighton Memorial Grant Award is a $100,000 unrestricted gift, given out annually to a coalition or collaborative in a rural, frontier, or tribal area that has demonstrated success in improving emergency response\* (access, services and/or care) with a focus on addressing inequity. The award is intended to specifically recognize multi-agency coalitions/collaboratives that:

* serve a population/community that experiences racial health disparities or inequitable healthcare;
* are reflective and inclusive of the communities they serve; and
* seek to impact broader systems change to emergency and prehospital care (e.g. organizational practice or policy changes).

Established in 2018, the Leighton Memorial Grant Award seeks to further the legacy of Jeff Leighton, a key advisor to the CARESTAR Foundation during its launch. An expert in the areas of non-profit foundation development, operations, finance, and investment management, Leighton was instrumental in helping CARESTAR incorporate as an organization. His illness and subsequent passing during this period led the board of directors to establish this honor to recognize Leighton’s outstanding contributions to the CARESTAR Foundation and help support the rural areas of California Jeff loved so much.

Eligibility

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* Location: Coalition/collaborative must work in a rural, frontier or tribal area in California as defined by:

* Rural - community/city with less than 50,000 residents.
* Frontier - no more than 7 residents per square mile.
* Tribal - one of the 109 federally recognized Indian tribes in California or in the process of petitioning for federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

* Coalition or Collaborative: Must be an existing group of three or more organizations with at least one of the organizations physically located in the rural, frontier, or tribal area being served.
* Population Served: Population/community experiences racial health disparities or inequitable emergency and pre-hospital care. 
* Timeframe: The work of the coalition/collaborative must have taken place within the last calendar year (2021).