Partners For Health: General Operating and Project Grants

Partners for Health Foundation offers General Operating and Project Grants aimed at strengthening organizations and supporting specific initiatives that promote health equity. These grants prioritize proposals that focus on improving services based on community feedback, collaboration, and data-driven outcomes. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) nonprofits and local government entities serving specific communities in New Jersey. By investing in these initiatives, Partners for Health aims to create thriving communities where health equity is recognized and addressed.

What We Believe
Partners for Health Foundation is a community-based organization that works toward a vision of thriving communities ensuring health for all. Partners for Health invests in programs, policies and organizations that lead to healthy communities and increased opportunities to thrive. Through partnering with community organizations, we strive to advance health equity through learning, grantmaking and advocacy.
We seek to address the factors that influence health, from the individual level to the policy level.
Types of Grantmaking
Partners for Health Foundation provides funding to organizations and communities in two ways.
General Operating Grants: Can strengthen an organization and its ability to change systems, listen to constituents, advocate for long term policy change, and determine how to measure outcomes incrementally on the journey toward their overall goals.
Project Grants: To support specific initiatives, projects, and collaborative efforts to shift the conditions that prevent communities from thriving.
Funding Priorities
During the review process, priority will be given to proposals that demonstrate the following:

• Focused on health equity

Working to improve how services are provided, based on feedback from constituents served (i.e., viewing issues at their source through a systems-perspective, or through a social determinant of health lens)
Collaborate with others to strengthen service provision, alleviate gaps in services, and leverage dollars and other resources
Data driven (i.e., how does your organization ensure measurable outcomes for your constituents?)

Eligibility

Non-for-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) public charity designation by the IRS are eligible for grants. We also fund local government entities, or small organizations that have a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3).Eligible organizations that serve one or more of the following 15 communities: Bloomfield, Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Clifton, Essex Fells, Fairfield, Glen Ridge, Little Falls, Montclair, North Caldwell, Nutley, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange. Statewide organizations that support local coalitions or advocate for statewide policy change to advance health equity and social justice may also be eligible for funding.

Ineligibility

Does support applicants in Newark, NJ in Essex County.