2018 Iowa and Illinois Grant Deadlines Approaching
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The Iowa and Illinois-based grant deadline is approaching soon! We encourage you to determine if your work and organization may be a fit with our philanthropic efforts. Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) strives to be a progressive, grant making organization committed to advancing health improvement. We are focused on assisting nonprofit organizations and communities in our funding priority areas of health innovation, health care workforce development, and health equity and social determinants of health.
All TCI grants are for periods of one year and function with a per grant request maximum of $50,000. The LOI proposals from Iowa and Illinois will have a July 2, 2018 deadline.
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Grant Facts
- All four states – Iowa, Illinois, Colorado and Oklahoma – function with a per grant application ceiling request/award amount of $50,000 for single-year project support.
- Our average grant request in our initial 2018 grant cycle was $41,827 per grant request.
- During 2017, we successfully introduced an abbreviated Letter of Interest application step. This was done to better honor each applicant’s time.
- Since 2013, TCI has provided nearly $6,000,000 in community-based project funding to nearly 160 projects across communities in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma. Learn more here.
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Connecting with the Health Care Community to Address Hunger
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Hunger Free Colorado is working with health providers throughout the state to refer patients who face food insecurity to the Food Resource Hotline
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For all of the prosperity in Colorado, hunger is a real problem in the state. In fact, one in ten Coloradans struggle with hunger, and one in seven children may not know when or where they will get their next meal.
Given these realities,
Hunger Free Colorado, a statewide nonprofit organization based in Denver, is committed to connecting people across the state to gain access to nutritious food, so that all Coloradans can thrive. One of the organization’s most popular and effective services is its bilingual
Food Resource Hotline. In 2017, more than 12,000 calls were received statewide by the nation’s only successful, sustainable hotline to connect people to food resources.
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Due to the recognition in the medical community that hunger is a health issue, Hunger Free Colorado launched a health care provider referral component to its Food Resource Hotline in 2012. Through this referral program, medical providers use clinical interactions to screen patients for hunger and refer those experiencing food insecurity to the hotline for assistance.
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Food Assistance Navigator providing assistance
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An example of the success of this program is Maria, a young, single mother living in the city of Denver, who suffered a physical injury shortly after giving birth prematurely to her second child. Unable to work, she was grateful when her health care provider referred her to Hunger Free Colorado’s Food Resource Hotline. Without it, she feared she would face difficulties in feeding her toddler and caring for her newborn baby. One of the hotline’s food assistance navigators reached out to Maria and put her in touch with the resources she needed, including helping her submit an application for food stamps, federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), by phone.
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“We are at the forefront of addressing food insecurity in the health care setting,” says Sandy Nagler, Hunger Free Colorado’s director of programs (
see photo right). “Health care and anti-hunger organizations are natural partners and, together, we can make a broader and more sustainable impact to end hunger.”
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Today, more than 20 medical providers are actively referring patients to the hotline, with up to 50 percent of the individuals the program now serves coming from health care referrals. Hunger Free Colorado is now on target to serve more than 34,000 people. This includes health care referrals this year, as well as assisting others with close to 4,000 applications for food stamps.
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This ongoing medical referral process using the Hunger Vital Sign™ two-question screening tool was partially funded through a $25,000 grant last year from Telligen Community Initiative. Hunger Free Colorado also partnered with several large medical providers to develop the framework for the health provider referral process.
“This program is a real game-changer, and we welcomed the opportunity to extend our support to this important work,” said Matt McGarvey, executive director of Telligen Community Initiative. “By collaborating with the medical community, Hunger Free Colorado has created a unique partnership, which is improving the quality of life and health of individuals, children and families.”
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Launch of the Community Health Funding Review Service
The Service for Nonprofits and Communities is the First and Only in Iowa
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Iowa’s Healthiest State Initiative (HSI), with the assistance of Telligen Community Initiative and five other Iowa health-based organizations and funders, is now offering a new way to assist Iowa-based communities and nonprofits with their health-related funding requests. This includes providing feedback to assist in positioning projects for grant awards.
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“We are excited to bring together this new service offering, which we think is something many organizations and cities can benefit from,” says Jami Haberl, HSI executive director (
see photo right).
For organizations and cities with community health projects, this service provides input from multiple health organizations and funders simultaneously, such as:
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“This is a chance to get input from many funders with different health lenses,” said Matt McGarvey, Telligen Community Initiative executive director and HSI work group chairperson (
see photo left). “We think this feedback can only make health planning stronger, and we are honored to come together to improve the health of Iowans.”
Through the use of an online tool, visitors can submit brief information about their project and receive feedback that may strengthen the project or concept for future funding.
For more information, or to access the HSI project feedback tool, please
click here.
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Healthy Homes Des Moines Receives National Recognition and Award
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This award is part of GHHI’s National Initiative for Asthma Reimbursement, which seeks to increase the numbers of comprehensive asthma programs and state Medicaid programs that reimburse for these services. The goal is to achieve better health and quality of life outcomes for families, while also lowering health care costs through the reduction of asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
Healthy Homes educates and provides supplies to Des Moines families. It also repairs homes through projects, such as replacing leaky plumbing and old carpet and providing high-efficiency vacuum cleaners. As a result, the children of the families affected experienced a 74 percent decrease in emergency room visits, six more symptom-free days every month, and reduced school and work absences for the children and their family members.
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Take a look at the newly released 2018 County Health Rankings for the United States, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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