Comprehensive Health Education Foundation awards grants to organizations, projects, and initiatives that support our mission and program priorities in the prevention of health inequities.
We define health inequities as differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of diseases that exist for specific populations in the United States. Low-income individuals and people of color within the United States generally have higher rates of poor health and injury than those who are in higher-income groups and are Caucasian.
In all our grantmaking, we strive to support projects that create an equal opportunity for health. We do this by supporting and enhancing organizations to build their capacity to reduce health inequities in their communities.
Each year, for the next ten years beginning in 2007, we will provide targeted grants to reduce health inequities. Every effort will be made to leverage our resources through partnerships with other nonprofits, government agencies, and private organizations to increase the overall grant impact within the communities that we fund.
Our grantmaking efforts focus on Clark, Pierce, and Spokane Counties in Washington State. We award one-year seed grants to culturally appropriate, community-led collaborations to test their "best idea" on how to make it easier for people who are most deeply affected by health inequities to move more and eat healthier.
We are interested in funding community-based, partners that:
- work directly in neighborhoods with large numbers of low-income people and diverse ethnic or racial populations.
- are excited about and committed to partnering with communities to make it easier for people to live healthier lives.
- celebrate and support diversity, community, and collaboration.
can sustain the project once funding ends.
- will work closely with C.H.E.F. staff to explore the possibility of developing a longer term project.
C.H.E.F. wants to make it easy for organizations to apply for grants. Please
click here to download a copy of our Request
for Proposal (PDF) and Application
(MS Word) Packet and FAQs(PDF)
If you have questions, please contact Kari L. Lewis at 1-800-323-2433, ext.
1899 or KariL@chef.org |
