Health Partnership Grants

The Health Trust awards Health Partnership Grants for projects that advance policies, and develop and transform practices and systems pertaining to our focus areas: Improving Health Through Food, Making Chronic Diseases More Preventable & Manageable, and Prioritizing Health In Housing.

Health Partnership grants are made out of a restricted fund for medically-related purposes in accordance with The Health Trust’s organizational charter and by-laws.

Improving Health Through Food Funding Priorities

Access to nutritious food is critical to support the health and well-being of all individuals. As such, we seek to address barriers, with long-term impact that will ensure that our target populations – older adults, recently housed individuals, and people of all ages at risk of, or living with, a chronic condition – have access to nutritious food so that they can live healthier lives. We are interested in investing in projects that test innovative strategies, and/or change policies, practices, and systems to strengthen our community partners’ capacity to meet the food and nutritional needs of our most vulnerable. Under our Food Strategy, we seek to:  

  • Scale food assistance for individuals in affordable and supportive housing.  
  • Develop community-clinical linkages that will utilize nutrition to support and improve the health and well-being of vulnerable individuals.
  • Strengthen community-based agencies and programs that prioritize access to nutritious food for vulnerable children, families, and older adults.

Making Chronic Conditions More Preventable & Manageable Funding Priorities

Vulnerable individuals of all ages are at higher risk of developing and/or living with at least one chronic condition (if not more in their lifetime). While these chronic conditions can negatively impact our most vulnerable children, families, and older adults, there are ways to prevent and manage chronic conditions. We are interested in projects with long-term impact that advance policies, and transform systems and practices to make it easier for individuals to prevent and manage at least one of the four chronic conditions prioritized by The Health Trust.  Under our Chronic Conditions Strategy, we seek to:

  • Improve referral linkages between medical providers and community-based organizations offering chronic disease prevention and management resources, including evidence-based programs.
  • Increase guideline-based STI/HIV screening and rapid connection to care for individuals of all ages.
  • Enhance the infrastructure and capacity of medical providers and community-based organizations that prioritize improving health outcomes focused on diabetes, arthritis, and/or cardiovascular disease.

Prioritizing Health In Housing Funding Priorities

We believe that one of the biggest drivers of health is stable housing. As such, we aim to ensure that individuals who have been recently housed in supportive housing are provided with the proper health-related support services to ensure that they remain stably housed. We are interested in supporting projects, and policies, systems and practices that will enable agencies to implement healthy food programs and health-related support services (including behavioral health) in supportive housing. Under our Housing Strategy, we seek to:

  • Integrate food and health-related services for recently housed individuals in supportive housing.
  • Improve and increase multi-sector partnerships, including non-traditional partners.  

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If you have any questions pertaining to Health Partnership Grants, please contact grants@healthtrust.org.