Systems Change Grants
Solicitation Title: Systems Change Grants
Event Type: Limited Submission
Funding Amount: $150,000 to $175,000
Internal Deadline: Thursday, September 3, 2020 Sponsor Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2020
Solicitation Link: http://vitalysthealth.org/systems-change-grants-loi/
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 two-tiered grant process is designed to invest in the development or demonstration of ways to positively address complex community health challenges and reduce structural and/or systemic gaps in health outcomes or opportunities.</p> <div>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. Systems Change Grants are designed to address one or more of the following:</div> <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> <div>The work should utilize a health equity lens to address one or more Elements of a Healthy Community to create a solution that is more effective, equitable or sustainable than existing approaches.</div>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>ASU may submit only one (1) application to the sponsoring organization. Apply <a href="https://asu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1822348" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> Other Information:<p>Letters of Intent will be assessed based upon clear and concise responses.</p> <ul> <li>Alignment with Vitalyst’s mission</li> <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 for 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> </ul> <p>Two Information Meetings will be held on Monday, August 31, 2-3 pm, and Tuesday, September 1, 9-10 am. The information provided will be the same at each session, so there is only need to attend one session. Register <a href="https://vitalysthealth.wufoo.com/forms/k113l7z20b2xp3s/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>Last Updated:
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