Systems Improvement and Innovation Responsive Grants
Background
MeHAF developed and initiated the Systems Improvement and Innovation Responsive Grants (SIIRG) program in 2020 as a complement to the Community Responsive Grants (CRG) program, launched the year before. After the first year of CRG funding, we recognized that the need for changes to improve health services access on many levels meant it was important to create a second program focused on funding more traditional “systems-based” organizations in tandem with funding grassroots, community-led work.
Purpose
The program provides funding for organizations to improve health and access to care to advance health equity in four strategic priority areas: rural health, aging/older adults, behavioral health, and maternal and child health. SIIRG places a major emphasis on ensuring that members of the communities impacted by the issues identified have a meaningful and ongoing voice in shaping the design, implementation and evaluation of improvements and innovations.
Highlights
- The SIIRG program is complemented by the Community Responsive Grants (CRG) program which supports projects that are community identified, informed, and led. The parallel development and annual nature of these two responsive grant programs has helped us to incorporate continued learning from each round of grantmaking into process improvements that often impact both programs.
- SIIRG grants are awarded annually through a competitive Request for Proposals that begins in January.
- Full application for the SIIRG program, as well as CRG, are reviewed and scored by both MeHAF staff and groups of community members.
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