The Colorado Health Foundation – Creating Healthy Schools funding opportunities

“The Colorado Health Foundation would like to hear from school districts, charter schools, nonprofit organizations and government agencies that are interested in future Creating Healthy Schools funding opportunities which includes:

Creating Healthy Schools: Local Planning and Assessment, aims to support local planning, capacity-building and community collaboration efforts.

Creating Healthy Schools: Local Implementation, intends to assist strategy execution in specifics areas related to building or increasing healthy schools work.

Creating Healthy Schools: Statewide Systems Building, supports systems-level and infrastructure work.

Intent to Participate forms are requested by Nov. 30, 2015. Following the November deadline, organizations interested in this work are invited to submit a grant proposal to the Foundation in February 2016. Submitting the Intent to Participate form does not guarantee future funding.

We are eager to hear both from existing partners and those we have not worked with before. Based on feedback in the Intent to Participate forms, the Foundation will provide information and guidance to support local organizations in developing their applications. Please see additional details in the Intent to Participate forms and funding opportunities. We welcome your feedback on what would be most helpful as you consider applying.

Please contact Tiffany Perrin, program officer, Healthy Living, at TPerrin@ColoradoHealth.org ot 303.953.3617 with questions.” [Source: TCHF]