Funding Opportunities: Aetna Foundation, Voices for Healthy Kids, REACH, and Partnerships to Improve Community Health
The Aetna Foundation Regional Grants Program:
The Aetna Foundation Regional Grants Program – GoLocal: Cultivating Healthy Communities – funds community wellness initiatives aligned with the Foundation’s Healthy Eating and Active Living focus area in designated funding locations. Grants will support local initiatives that promote eating fresh fruits and vegetables and being physically active, which can help to prevent obesity and many chronic health conditions. Grants will target underserved, low-income and minority communities where healthy food can be difficult to buy, and where social and environmental factors may limit people’s ability to be physically active.
Grant Application Dates are for Cycle 1: April 10 to June 5, 2014, 5:00 pm EDT and for Cycle 2: June 16 to July 30, 2014, 5:00 pm EDT. Learn more about the Aetna Foundation Regional Grants Program.
Voices for Healthy Kids:
The American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have joined forces to launch Voices for Healthy Kids. Through this collaboration, and in partnership with a team of experts across the childhood obesity movement, the initiative aims to engage, organize and mobilize people to improve the health of their communities and reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Voices for Healthy Kids will advance coordinated state, local and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused on childhood obesity priorities, and will utilize the American Heart Association’s proven advocacy capacity to drive meaningful and widespread policy change that will support the reversal of the childhood obesity epidemic.
The goal of the grant opportunities within this initiative is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local and tribal public policy issue campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. Voices for Healthy Kids is focusing efforts on six priority areas, and applicants should link their applications to these priorities.
View Open RFA and Rapid Response Grant Opportunities
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) is financed in part by Prevention and Public Health Funding. Funding is available for the three year initiative for 15-20 basic implementation (average annual award $400,000) and 30-40 comprehensive implementation (average annual award $800,000) grants. Funds will be used to strengthen “existing capacity to implement locally tailored evidence- and practice-based, policy, systems, and environmental improvements in priority populations experiencing disparities in chronic diseases and associated risk factors.” Letters of intent are due on June 6th and applications on July 22nd.
View the REACH Funding Opportunity Announcement
Partnerships to Improve Community Health
The Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH) funding opportunity announcement supports implementation of evidenced- and practice-based strategies that address previously-identified community gaps and needs within a defined jurisdiction to reduce the prevalence of chronic disease and related risk factors. PICH will provide funding to a variety of governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, including school districts, local housing authorities, local Transportation Authorities, local public health offices and American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages to work through multi-sectoral community coalitions that represent one of 3 designated geographic areas: 1) Large Cities and Urban Counties (with populations of 500,000 or more), 2) Small Cities and Counties (with populations between 50,000-499,999), or 3) American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages and tribal organizations. Letters of intent are due on June 5th and applications on July 22nd.