2008 GRANT INFORMATION:
Please reveiw
Con Alma's 2008 Grant Guidelines Brochure
To download Con Alma Health Foundation's 2008 Small Grant Application Forms please click on the link below.
Small Grant Guidelines and Application
Deadline for Small Grant Application: Friday, August 15th at 5:00 p.m.
2008 Pre-Proposal Workshop Presentations:
To view the presentations, please click on the links below.
Pre-Proposal Workshop Grantmaking Presentation
Pre-Proposal Workshop Evaluation Presentation
Pre-Proposal Workshop Proposal Writing Presentation
2008 Grant Schedule:
Con Alma Health Foundation's 2008 Grant Schedule
To view Proposal Writing Guidelines for tips on writing a proposal Click Here.
GUIDELINES FOR TARGET AND SMALL GRANTS
CAHF focuses broadly in the areas of health and human services with special emphasis on culturally diverse, rural and tribal communities. Priority consideration is given to proposals that demonstrate strong collaborative relationships, have multiple funding sources and a plan for sustainability and address systemic change rather than direct services.
TARGET GRANTS:
Con Alma continues to build on its track record of providing resources and engaging the community in the goal of eliminating inequalities in health care in order to better serve all New Mexicans. To this end, CAHF seeks proposals from nonprofit organizations that target the following:
Programs Serving Youth
· Programs that serve preadolescent children (below age 10) in activities that include family, school and communities in providing preventative health and oral health as well as reducing youth risk behaviors (obesity and diabetes, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, injury, etc.)
· Programs that foster collaboration with youth, community-based organizations, educational institutions, unions, employers and public agencies to ensure a community-based perspective.
Eliminating Health Disparities
· Programs that strive to eliminate health disparities by addressing the specific needs of the populations they serve, such as those that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate health promotion and disease prevention services.
· Programs that utilize and evaluate indigenous models of health care that aim to reduce health disparities in health services access, quality of care and improve health conditions of racial and ethnic minorities. Models for consideration may include the role of traditional healers such as medicine men and women and curanderas/os in the prevention and treatment of the illness and promotion of holistic health
Building Organizational and Advocacy Capacity
· Programs that collaborate and organize systems level interventions and develop public policies that move toward achieving the goal of health insurance coverage for all New Mexicans.
· Programs that offer technical and capacity building skills through group training, one-on-one coaching, linkage with other resources, and infusion of information to address stated needs. This is essential to developing and strengthening organizations and communities. Improved organizational and individual capacity will last longer in the community than grant funds.
· Programs that support and strengthen nonprofit organizations that seek to improve the health of underserved populations through community organizing to build power in order to collectively effect change.
Building a Skilled and Diverse Health Workforce
· Programs that help build a committed and skilled health workforce by recruiting and training low-income residents for entrance into health care careers that offer livable wages, including such jobs as community health workers and promotores, licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, registered nurses, physicians, medical coders, in-home health support aides, mental health workers, medical and lab assistants. This area includes organizations that work upstream at middle and high schools to attract youth and inspire them to consider the health care industry.
· Programs that support leadership development for people of color in the health professions and that advocate for public and institutional policies to promote diversity in the health professions.
· Programs that offer structured mentoring to address community health issues.
SMALL GRANTS:
CAHF will continue to provide small grants of under $15,000 to support innovative and promising programs to develop new approaches to improving health access and that establish evidence of effective strategies and interventions specific to New Mexico.
