In the Responsive Grants Program, organizations can apply for project, capacity building, equipment or technology, capital projects, or general operating support.
Donor Name: Sisters Health Foundation
State: Ohio, West Virginia
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Responsive Grants Program helps organizations respond to systemic issues in their communities. These issues, such as transportation access, health care access, and homelessness, take significant time and effort to address.
The Responsive Grants Program addresses systemic health needs and disparities in the region, such as the prevention and management of chronic health conditions, food and housing insecurity, transportation, and health and mental healthcare access
Priority Areas 
Healthy Eating, Active Living

Foundation support projects and strategies that prevent or manage chronic health conditions by promoting healthy eating and active living through one or more of the following:
Education about the health benefits of a healthy weight, good nutrition, and physical activity

Efforts that encourage and support behavior change
Environmental changes that make healthy choices the easy choices
Increased access and distribution of healthy foods
Promotion and provision of opportunities for increased physical activity
Coalition and cross-sector collaboration that promotes healthy eating and active living through policy or programmatic change.

Thriving Neighborhoods

Foundation support projects and strategies that address improving neighborhood conditions where people live, learn, work, and play so that everyone has the ability to achieve their full health potential by:

Improving the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health and health care
Improving access to reliable transportation options so people can reach needed health and social services
Improving access to stable and safe housing to foster a healthy living environment
Supporting efforts to increase connections to community resources and to one another to foster an environment of social connectedness and belonging
Improving access to high-quality early childhood programs including in-home programs designed to improve maternal and child health, parenting skills, and child development as well as programs supporting the health and well-being of the preK-12 student population
Supporting coalition and cross-sector collaboration that improves neighborhood conditions and advances policy or programmatic change

Mental Health and Addiction

Foundation support projects and strategies that address mental health and/or addiction. Related to mental health, they are interested in the area of health promotion and prevention. Related to addiction, they are interested in the areas of prevention, early intervention, and recovery support. They are especially interested in evidence-based programs focused on:

Prevention activities such as education and stigma reduction of mental health and substance use disorders; trauma-informed care practices and supportive environments in schools, churches, workplaces, and other community settings; and provision of mental health services in schools and school-based health clinics
Early intervention activities such as identifying and reducing individual risk factors for substance use, improving connections to needed services across various systems, and harm reduction efforts to reduce the number of deaths and the spread of disease
Building the behavioral health workforce, including peer support specialists/peer recovery supporters, supporting high school and college pipeline programming, and encouraging careers in behavioral health
Supporting people in recovery with positive supports such as housing, connections to employment, and transportation
Coalition and cross-sector collaboration that advances policy or programmatic change

Funding Information
Grants in this program average $18,000 to $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria

An applicant must be a tax-exempt nonprofit under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a public institution.
The funding request addresses at least one of three priority areas: Healthy Eating, Active Living; Thriving Neighborhoods; and Mental Health and Addiction.
Applicants who recently received a grant may only apply once in a 12-month period for either the Basic Needs/Direct Service Program or the Responsive Program. For example, if an organization received a grant in the spring, they cannot apply for a grant in the fall of the same year.
The project or strategy will positively impact residents in one or more counties of our 11-county service area:

West Virginia– Calhoun, Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Tyler, Wirt, Wood
Ohio- Athens, Meigs, Washington

For more information, visit Sisters Health Foundation.