The Central Massachusetts Health Foundation Announces 2010 Grant Cycles
The Activation Fund
Approximately 20 percent of the Foundation's grantmaking portfoliio has been invested through the Activation Fund. The Activation Fund is designed to attract applicant-initiated proposals which fit the Foundation’s mission and complement its Synergy Initiative grant projects, while generating action beyond the routine. Envisioned somewhat as a venture capital fund, this funding avenue is intended to support discrete projects to achieve specific outcomes that activate:
- creative and innovative approaches to alleviating community health concerns;
- community organizations’ movement to the next level of capacity and effectiveness; which the organization can sustain;
- partnerships to address health issues with new strategies;
- and/or the Foundation’s exploration in emerging health challenges and opportunities.
Activation Fund Deadlines
- Letters of Intent due: April 30, 2010
- Applications invited: June 17, 2010
- Applications due: August 16, 2010
- Grant awards: September 16, 2010
Health Care and Health Promotion Synergy Initiative
The Synergy Initiative provides funding for partnership-based projects that target significant anomalies of poor health status in Central Massachusetts, with integrated, comprehensive strategies designed to redress the disparities by enhancing systemic access to care and promoting healthier lifestyles. Grantees may identify targeted populations geographically (e.g., neighborhoods or communities), demographically (e.g., 0 to 3 year olds, frail elderly, Latinos) and/or categorically (e.g., incidence of cardiovascular disease, homelessness, caregivers). The Foundation will continue to encourage projects that serve the most vulnerable residents of Central Massachusetts.
Key criteria for successful Synergy Initiative proposals include:
- Significance of the problem
- Level of integration
- Soundness of the approach
- The capacity for enduring systems change
- Potential for impact
- Potential for replication
- Quality of the evaluation plan
- Exit strategy
Health Care and Health Promotion Synergy Initiative
- Letters of Intent due: August 2, 2010
- Applications invited: September 16, 2010
- Applications due: November 1, 2010
- Grant Awards: December 9, 2010
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Please visit the Foundation’s website (www.hfcm.org) to review the guidelines for each of these grant categories.
Please contact Elaine Cinelli at ecinelli [at] hfcm [dot] org or 508-438-0009 x26 to discuss your proposed project.
Elaine C. Cinelli
Vice President for Programs
The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts
446 Main Street, 20th Floor
Worcester, MA 01608
E-mail: ecinelli [at] hfcm [dot] org
Phone: (508) 438-0009
Fax: (508) 438-0020
Cell Phone: (508) 981-3825
http://www.hfcm.org
The Citizens' Seminar
A closer look at our local, state, and national governments.
Engaged Citizenship is an effort that works to equip citizens of Massachusetts and elsewhere, through a variety of educational activities with the knowledge and skills for thoughtful and effective participation in the democratic governance of their community, state, and nation. The Initiative is non-partisan and seeks to educate citizens, representative of the diversity of our communities in the rights and responsibilities of engaged, participatory citizenship. Its vision is an engaged citizenry of the full spectrum of our pluralistic society participating fully and enthusiastically in government at the community, local, state, and national levels.
A core program of the Initiative is the Citizens’ Seminar. The Seminar convenes a group of citizens broadly representative of our pluralism and with an interest in public policy, government or in working for the betterment of our community (defined in the broadest sense) for a series of interactive workshops focusing on the work of state, national, and local government. The presentations are offered by civic leaders as well as current and former elected and appointed officials who serve as faculty. Discussions are facilitated by trained college students with interest and background in government and public policy.
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