Responsive Grants: Nurture Healthy Minds - Adult Recovery Grants

Funding Overview
Our responsive grants program is designed for you to propose your best ideas to achieve impact within one or more of our focus areas. The program is intended to respond to an urgent community need; address emerging opportunities; test innovative approaches or breakthrough ideas; or implement proven programs. At each funding deadline (Feb. 15, June 15, Oct. 15), we will identify specific objectives for our responsive grants program, which may change from deadline to deadline. Grant funding is highly competitive across all objectives open for the responsive grants program in a funding cycle. Organizations that apply for funding in the responsive grants program for this funding cycle will have to compete across the following objectives: Adult Recovery Supports, Caregiver Resources, Food Program Efficiency, Food Program Participation and Housing Financial Assistance.
Note: the objective-level language in our responsive grants program is intentionally broad to encourage you to submit innovative ideas and approaches to the work.
Focus Area: Advance Health and Well-Being
The Colorado Health Foundation believes recovery is possible for those experiencing mental health and substance use issues.
We envision a Colorado where adults on their recovery journeys can access culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate recovery services close to their homes.
Why It Matters
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) defines recovery as “a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.”
Additional services beyond clinical treatments and traditional substance use interventions are useful for beginning and maintaining the process of recovery. Nonclinical, evidence-based supports and tools, including peer-support groups, employment services and more, help bring recovery closer. These services are most effective when they align with a person’s background, culture and values.
Mental and behavioral health conditions affect Coloradans across socioeconomic levels and ethnicities. However, barriers to accessing recovery-related services persist for certain groups of Coloradans. Obstacles include a shortage of available services, especially those tailored to Coloradans of color, concerns about affordability, and stigma associated with mental health services.

Eligibility

Generally, we make grants to the following types of organizations:Colorado organizations classified as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3)Colorado public agencies, including state and local governmentsNew or emerging organizations without 501(c)(3) status are permitted to apply through a tax-exempt organization acting as fiscal sponsor.To be considered for funding, organizations must meet the following criteria:Align with the Foundation’s cornerstones that address who we serve, health equity and being community-informed Meet the Foundation’s policies and guidelinesMeet at least one of the following objectives:Nurture Healthy MindsAdult Recovery Supports: Support nontraditional programs and technology-based recovery supports for adults in need to ensure they have support close to home that makes recovery possible.

Ineligibility

Generally, the Foundation does not make grants to or for the following:IndividualsPrograms that require membership in a certain religion or advance a particular religious faith (faith-based organizations may be eligible for funding if they welcome and serve all members of the community regardless of religious faith, and provided that they do not require participation in activities that are specifically religious)For-profit organizations or programs operated by, or for the benefit of, for-profit organizationsDebt retirementFundraising eventsEndowments