Funding to Reduce Health Disparities in Colorado

Deadline: 11/29/2017 (Application)

Amount: An estimated $9 million is expected to be available to support awards through this program. An estimated $3.2 million is expected to be available for each of the three fiscal years. Awards are expected to range from $150,000 to $250,000 per fiscal year.

Eligibility:

Nonprofit organizations
Health care organizations
Governmental entities
Educational institutions
Federally recognized Native American tribes in Colorado
Nonprofit organizations providing services to eligible tribes on reservations or federally recognized tribal land

Lead applicants must be currently involved in an existing partnership with agencies from differing sectors and be willing to continue to partner with those agencies to implement the project.

The purpose of this program is to reduce health disparities in Colorado in order to ensure that all Coloradans have an equal opportunity to live in thriving communities and achieve their full health potential. To accomplish this, projects must focus on addressing health disparities, especially in relation to diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary disease. Projects must examine factors that affect health disparity, including where people are born, grow, live, learn, work, play, and age. Addressing health disparities must also consider social and economic factors that go beyond the realm of the health sector and are a result of unequal allocation of power and resources, such as unequal education, employment, social support, community safety, housing, transportation, and environmental conditions (upstream determinants of health).

Projects must address a specific geographic area and address an affected under-represented community, such as low-income earners, older adults, people of color, immigrants and refugees, disenfranchised youth, LGBTQ individuals, and/or people from rural communities. Applicants must also detail the system or policy change(s) they wish to address, and up to two upstream determinants of health they wish to address. Refer to pages 11-13 of the NOFA file for a list of examples of upstream determinants of health, and examples of policy changes and systems changes that may be addressed. Policy and system changes may include:

Reducing blight and deterioration of neighborhood conditions
Making affordable, consumer-focused banking services accessible to residents of low-income neighborhoods
Reducing pollution in areas that face high levels of exposure
Ensuring supportive housing, employment, and health care reentry services for people returning from incarceration
Developing and implementing standards for a minimum income for healthy living

All projects must be proposed by existing multisectoral partnerships, as outlined in the Eligibility section.

All award recipients must attend the mandatory post-award training sessions.

Funds may be used for: