US: Georgetown Health Foundation Grant Program ($10,000-$50,000)

Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

The Georgetown Health Foundation is accepting applications for its Grant Program to support local nonprofit organizations that expand or enhance the health needs in the Georgetown community.

Priorities

• The funding prioritizes basic needs and the social determinants of health supporting such needs.
• GHF applies a health equity lens to the goals and strategies.  Inequities in health are often socially determined.  Health equity strategies seek to increase opportunities for everyone, regardless of their circumstances, to live the healthiest life possible.  GHF views the pursuit of health equity as a way to correct or challenge factors outside a person’s control that negatively impact their health, e.g., lack of resources, education, or income.
• Basic Needs (Physiological) 
  • Shelter/Housing 
    • Defined Grants toward shelter and housing will focus on the following:
      • Emergency Shelter — 1-7 days
      • Short-term or Temporary Housing — up to 90 days
      • Transitional Housing — 90 days to 24 months
      • Financial assistance for rent/mortgage
      • While GHF will consider proposals for affordable housing, i.e. – housing that costs > 30% of the target population’s household income, these requests fall
• Basic Needs (Safety) + Social Determinants of Health Directly Related to Priorities 1 & 2 
  • Personal Security Defined 
    • GHF’s support for initiatives that nurture and protect personal security are based on evidence that when individuals feel safe, they experience positive life outcomes (e.g., increased health), and conversely, when they feel unsafe, they experience negative life outcomes (e.g., depression, stress, and anxiety). For this reason, GHF is linking personal security with mental healthcare as complementary funding priorities. Examples of personal security funding may include:
      • Domestic and/or family violence interventions
      • Mental health and/or substance abuse interventions
      • Efforts to improve communication and understanding across the community’s differences (e.g., race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, age, and geography)
      • Transportation refers to programs that increase access to food, employment, or healthcare
      • Homebound adults refer to individuals unable to leave their residence independently due to age and/or ability
• Social Determinants of Health Supporting Priorities 1 & 2 
  • Emergency financial assistance refers to assistance with utilities, food, healthcare, and caregiving

Funding Information

• Funding Threshold: $10,000-$50,000

Target Populations

• To be considered for funding, organizations must serve Georgetown residents with household incomes or needs

Eligibility Criteria

• In order to be considered for funding, nonprofit organizations must ensure that their mission, vision, priorities, target population and service area align with GHF’s.
  • The Mission
    • Georgetown Health Foundation generates and accelerates positive change in the community’s health.
  • Vision
    • They imagine the community as one in which all are empowered to build and sustain healthy, productive lives and they believe the health of Georgetown residents is influenced by the environment in which they live.
  • Vision Philosophy
    • Georgetown Health Foundation agrees with the World Health Organization’s definition of health as ‘a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of infirmity.’
    • They believe that social determinants of health are powerful influencers on this comprehensive definition of health.  Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies, and political systems.

Ineligibility Criteria

• They do not fund:
  • Direct support of individuals
  • Clinical trials of drugs or devices
  • For-profit organizations
  • Programs that exclude participants on the basis of race, religion, age, gender, or sexual orientation
  • Loans
  • Support of political agendas or candidates
  • Lobbying activities
  • Private and charter schools

For more information, visit GHF.