Systems Change Grants
Solicitation Title: Systems Change Grants
Event Type: Limited Submission
Funding Amount: $150,000 to $175,000
Internal Deadline: Friday, September 17, 2021 Sponsor Deadline: Friday, October 29, 2021
Solicitation Link: http://vitalysthealth.org/grants/systemschange-grants/
Overview
<p>Vitalyst Health Foundation is on a mission to connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in Arizona. Our grant processes are designed to support collaborative projects that are improving the health of Arizonans by making systems more effective, equitable, and sustainable. Systems Change begins with a creative idea about improving health and well-being for a vulnerable population. Understanding all the facets of the problem requires partners that provide different perspectives on the problem to more effectively construct an intentional plan of action.</p> <p>Systems Change Grants are designed to address the following:</p> <ul> <li>Increase community capacity to identify and address issues affecting community health and well-being.</li> <li>Strategically leverage infrastructure, systems design and policies to improve health where we live, learn, work, pray and play.</li> <li>Improve the environmental, social, behavioral and health infrastructure conditions that impact determinants of health and enable Arizonans to be healthy and resilient.</li> <li>Create a sustainable solution to the problem being addressed that endures after the term of the grant funding.</li> </ul> <p>Critical elements of a Systems Change project proposal are:</p> <p><strong>Systems Change</strong><br>This change is one that is fully sustainable and not connected to grant funds or external expectations, but rather an organizational or cross-system priority to new policies, culture, communication or practices.</p> <p><strong>Health Equity Lens</strong><br>Equity is a lens through which to view every opportunity, decision, or action. Using this lens means taking an approach to determining all strategies, both universal and focused.</p> <p><strong>Community Partnership</strong><br>True partnership involves meaningfully engaging key stakeholders from the beginning, sharing ownership and decision-making, and creatively using existing community resources and assets.</p> <p><strong>Sustainability</strong><br>Sustainability is the difference between funding a program and funding a project. The goal with Systems Change grants is to create lasting change, either through policy or practice, that is sustainable past the grant funding period.</p> <p><strong>Health Outcomes Focus</strong><br>Health is at the root of what we do. These grants must clearly identify which health outcome(s) will be improved, including the population driving and benefiting from the change and the mechanism(s) for how the policy/practice change is improving the health outcome.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>ASU may submit only one (1) application to the sponsoring organization. Visit: <a href="https://asu.infoready4.com/?utm_campaign=ASU_KE_ASU+Template+RD+Weekly+…; <p></p> Other Information:<p>Letters of Intent due October 29, 2021 and will be assessed based upon clear and concise responses. Please view our Information Session for additional information.</p> <p>Alignment with Vitalyst’s mission</p> <ul> <li>Clarity of policy or practice change’s potential to improve community health (e.g. innovation potential)</li> <li>Identified policy or practice change that address the intersection of two or more “Elements of a Healthy Community” through a health equity lens (e.g. innovation potential)</li> <li>Clear identification of the system where the policy/practice change will occur and the proposed pathways of change (e.g. systems change)</li> <li>Description of how the project uses a health equity lens (approach) to the work (e.g. health equity lens)</li> <li>Defined partners with experience to select a policy/practice change with the identified population (e.g. community partners)</li> <li>Specify the potential lasting health change after the grant (e.g. sustainability)</li> <li>Clearly defined health outcomes to be improved by the proposed policy/practice change (e.g. health outcomes)</li> <li>Brief outline of the project budget ($150,000-$175,000)</li> </ul>Last Updated:
RODA ID: 1421