RFP- Health Care Workforce Grant

RFP- Health Care Workforce Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Cambia Health Foundation
Amount: US $30,000 - US $60,000
Last Updated: July 13, 2025

Summary

Cambia Health Foundation seeks to improve health care through focused investments in the health care workforce. They aim to expand, diversify, and train professionals to address behavioral health provider shortages. By enhancing both paid and unpaid workforce sectors, Cambia fosters wellness, reduces stigma, and promotes collaborative care models. Their commitment to health equity reflects in their strategic areas of investment, ensuring everyone has the opportunity for better health outcomes.

Overview

About us Cambia Health Foundation is the corporate foundation of Cambia Health Solutions, which is dedicated to making health care more person focused and economically sustainable. Founded in 2007, the foundation has invested more than $127 million to advance whole-person health at every stage of life. We make purposeful philanthropic investments in solutions that reduce disparities, address social drivers of health, incorporate mental and behavioral health, and eliminate systemic barriers, resulting in better health care experiences and outcomes for people and families. What we believe in We believe that health is personal, multidimensional, and interconnected, so health care should be too. We believe in a future where every person has an equal opportunity to live the healthiest life possible. We believe health equity is vital and achievable. Our investments span three strategic areas of work across all ages and phases of life: Resilient Children and FamiliesWe invest in behavioral health access for young children and their caregivers. By focusing on early intervention, we build resilience and improve health outcomes.Healthy and Connected AgingWe focus on solutions that reduce isolation and loneliness among older adults by strengthening social connectivity, care coordination, and behavioral health access within whole person health models.Health Care WorkforceWe support expanding, diversifying, and training the workforce to reduce behavioral health provider shortages in our region. By strengthening the paid and unpaid workforce we enable wellness and prevention, reduce stigma and increase collaborative care models.

Eligibility

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Application Details

Cambia Health Foundation
2025 Request for Proposals
Health Care Workforce
This RFP will support integrated primary care teams that help achieve
healthy outcomes in collaboration with people from underserved
communities. We will prioritize existing provider teams working to
create a positive patient experience, implementing effective care
management, and focused on both individual and population health.
At a glance:
• Application opens July 10 and closes
Thursday, August 14 at 5:00pm Pacific
Time.
• Covers services provided in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Utah and Tribal Nations
within these states.
• We anticipate grant amounts between
$30,000 and $60,000 and up to 24 months.
• Open to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations;
accredited schools or universities;
government and public agencies; federally
recognized Indian Tribal entities.
• Our website:
https://www.cambiahealthfoundation.org/a
pplicant-resources/current-funding-
opportunities.html
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About us
Cambia Health Foundation is the corporate foundation of Cambia Health Solutions, which is dedicated to
making health care more person-focused and economically sustainable. Founded in 2007, the foundation
has made purposeful philanthropic investments of more than $134 million to improve healthcare
experiences and outcomes for people and families.
We are currently working to advance whole-person health by expanding access to behavioral health in
underserved communities across Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah. The term whole-person health
reflects our belief that health is personal, multidimensional and interconnected.
Our 2022-2026 strategic plan focus areas
We prioritize investments in three areas that span all ages and phases of life:
Resilient Children Healthy and Health Care
and Families Connected Aging Workforce
We invest in behavioral health We focus on solutions that We support expanding,
access for young children and reduce isolation and diversifying and training the
their caregivers. By focusing loneliness among older workforce to reduce behavioral
on early intervention, we adults by strengthening health provider shortages in
build resilience and improve social connectivity, care our region. By strengthening
health outcomes. coordination, and behavioral the paid and unpaid workforce
health access within whole we enable wellness and
person health models. prevention, reduce stigma and
increase collaborative care
models.
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RFP Strategy
Primary care prevents serious health issues, improves chronic disease management and increases access
to behavioral health services. Integrated primary care teams provide high quality care with a whole-person
approach addressing physical health, mental health and social needs together.
Integrated primary care teams are dedicated clinical and non-clinical providers working together to
improve health outcomes by addressing the full spectrum of patient needs through coordinated, efficient
and patient-centered approaches. These teams work in organizations such as community health centers,
rural health clinics, certified community behavioral health clinics and their existing strategic partner
organizations. The aim of this RFP is to support integrated primary care teams providing whole-person
health services to underserved communities – including populations experiencing higher poverty rates,
insurance gaps, complex health needs, and barriers to health and social services.
This RFP will support integrated primary care teams helping to achieve healthy outcomes in collaboration
with people from underserved communities. We believe there are many different approaches an
organization or partnership may take to achieve these goals. We are particularly interested in supporting
primary care teams working to optimize collaboration with people being served, providing effective care
management, and focusing on both individual and population health.
Support for existing primary care teams and collaborations will be prioritized through one or more of the
following strategies:
• Training and career development to advance integrated primary care
• Programs addressing stressful working conditions and burnout to enhance provider wellbeing
• Supervised, paid internship and practicum experiences for students
• Support for technologies that enable care teams to provide quality in-person or remote care through
various access points
• Designated funds addressing social barriers identified during patient care
Outcomes and impacts
Strong applications will clearly define the population served, demonstrate care team buy-in, and connect
directly to at least one of these outcomes:
• Increase provider training or career advancement in team-based models of care focused on
increasing access, patient experience and improved outcomes.
• Expand behavioral health and social service supports.
• Increase provider well-being and job satisfaction.
• Advance clinical and non-clinical primary care team members working together to understand and
reflect the communities served.
We recognize multiple strategies exist to support primary care teams in providing effective, equitable
care. Applications should:
• Identify the most pressing needs where actions will have the greatest impact, leverage organizational
strengths, and create opportunities for meaningful, sustainable change.
• Be focused on a specific priority rather than trying to address every possible component of primary
care support.
• Include how connections to behavioral health services are made within the primary care framework.
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Eligibility
• Applicants should be a single organization providing integrated primary care services (i.e., access to
physical, behavioral and social services on-site, virtually or in home/community settings) or an
organization on behalf of an integrated partnership between a primary care center(s) and social
service provider(s).
• Preference for existing programs or collaborations, with new programs or collaborations considered
with viable pathways to sustainability.
• Proposed work must be focused on serving populations within Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah
and/or sovereign American Indian tribes within those states.
• Applicant organizations must be an active U.S. 501(c)(3) organization; accredited school or university;
government or public agency; federally recognized Indian Tribal entity. Fiscal agents are eligible to
serve as applicants on behalf of eligible organizations doing charitable work.
• Organizations/entities that do not offer all components of integrated care either directly or through
established collaborations will not be eligible to apply. If you are not sure your proposed work or
organization is eligible to apply, we encourage you to reach out to our team and ask.
How to apply
Submit your application by Thursday, August 14th, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific Time through the online
application portal on our website, cambiahealthfoundation.org.
• Use the portal to access your existing account or create a new account if this is your first time using
the new application portal at Cambia Health Foundation.
• Check our website for information on frequently asked questions.
• Let us know if you need help. We welcome any and all questions you may have.
Funding guidelines
We ask for requested grant amounts between $30,000 and $60,000 and one application from an
organization or collaboration. We anticipate awarding 8-12 grants throughout our geographic region in this
RFP. We estimate grant start dates to be in October 2025. The grant period can last up to 24 months after
the initial start date. Please note that these are general guidelines for planning purposes. Details will be
finalized with funding recipients.
RFP deadlines and timeframe We’re here for you
July 10, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific Time Questions about eligibility or RFP focus? Contact us
The single-stage application opens on our website. before you apply. Please submit your question(s) to
CambiaHealthFoundation@cambiahealth.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific Time
The application closes.
Your inquiry will be directed to the appropriate team
Week of September 29 member for a prompt response.
Applicants will be notified of final decisions.
October – November 2025
Proposed work begins.
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Cambia Health Foundation values equal opportunity for all members of the community and embraces the
importance of diversity and inclusion in achieving health equity. Our grant partners join us in not
discriminating based on age, sex, race, creed, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity,
pregnancy, marital status, military service, other protected veteran status, disability, national origin, political
affiliation, religious belief or any other status in their leadership, staffing or provision of services.
Preview of reporting requirements for Cambia Health Foundation reserves
funded projects the right to:
Cambia Health Foundation is dedicated to ensuring • Reject any or all proposals submitted
that its investments are mission driven and positively • Reject a proposal that does not include all
impact the communities we serve. The evaluation required information and documentation
process is clear, simple and focused on outcomes. It • Modify RFP and program guidelines,
respects organizations of different sizes, experiences, including submission deadlines
values, beliefs and traditions. It balances quantitative • Contact you to discuss your proposal
and qualitative methods to inform and guide Cambia and/or others referenced in the proposal
Health Foundation decisions while improving grant • Request additional information or
partner services. Cambia Health Foundation staff use verification
an evaluation model that fits our evaluation
philosophy. What will not be funded
We have four primary goals for evaluation and grant Cambia Health Foundation is interested in
reporting: learning what resources are necessary to
achieve intended results. However, we will not
• Good stewardship of funds entrusted to us for fund the following as part of this funding
the benefit of the community opportunity:
• Grant partner learning and quality improvement
• Communication about results and impact • Endowments
• Transparency around barriers and • Capital campaigns
challenges • Political causes or events
• Sacramental or theological functions
Reporting frequency and requirements depend on the of religious organizations
grant size and time frame. We are committed to asking • Existing deficits
only for what we will use and remaining focused on • Retroactive expenses
what is important to the organization and those served. • Sponsorships
When it comes to our grant partners, our intent is to • Programs that do not primarily
develop relationships that are positive, honest, trusting serve Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah
and committed to improvement. and/or the sovereign American Indian
tribes within those states
We reserve the right to add to this list on a
case-by-case basis.
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