Grantmaking
Funding Opportunities
What We Fund
We invest to improve health and quality of life for communities in Forsyth County and across North Carolina. We focus on outcomes, because we believe this is the most effective way to achieve long-term, sustainable change. We always start by listening to the communities we serve and seek community-led solutions, grounded in racial equity and systems change.
Below, you will find our current funding opportunities based on specific, outcome-focused strategies. The timing of our cycle is rolling. Check back soon for additional opportunities in our areas of investment.
How to Apply
Review
Explore the funding opportunities below to understand the goals, imagine solutions, and see if your idea or organization is a fit. You can search by category, geographic area, or look at past opportunities.
Assess
If you think you’re a fit, review the eligibility requirements for that opportunity.
Consult and Apply
If you believe you are eligible, contact our grants assistant to arrange a phone consultation to determine if your idea is a fit.
Current Funding Opportunities
Explore our current funding opportunities below. You can search by region or body of work. You can also look at opportunities we’ve funded in the past.
If there are no results, that means our next funding opportunities have not been announced yet. Please check back soon!
Engaging in Consumer Education and Feedback to Decrease Health Disparities
The shift to Medicaid managed care and new value-based care arrangements in the state could improve health outcomes for financially vulnerable residents or widen already steep racial and geographic disparities. To ensure that families with low incomes are not harmed as payment models change, the Trust will support efforts to educate residents and promote patient feedback and information sharing among stakeholders.
Engaging in Consumer Education and Feedback to Decrease Health Disparities
The shift to Medicaid managed care and new value-based care arrangements in the state could improve health outcomes for financially vulnerable residents or widen already steep racial and geographic disparities. To ensure that families with low incomes are not harmed as payment models change, the Trust will support efforts to educate residents and promote Medicaid member feedback and information sharing among stakeholders.
Equitable Food Systems and Recreation in Eastern North Carolina
Most Healthy Places North Carolina counties have limited access to healthy food options and recreation opportunities.
Community based organizations, local coalitions, and collaboratives are tackling these longstanding inequities and health concerns through a variety of means. These include, but are not limited to, the creation of food policy councils, establishing new farmers’ markets, advocating for more recreation resources, and ramping up healthy eating and active living programs. The Trust aims to reduce racial disparities in health care, so we are particularly interested in how communities are engaging residents with low incomes and people of color in these efforts.
Healthy Places North Carolina
Many Eastern North Carolina organizations are mobilizing to improve their communities in four broad areas of work: mitigating and preventing adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress; addressing substance use and overdose deaths; building equitable food systems; and creating equitable recreation opportunities. Most of these efforts align with goals identified in the state’s Healthy 2030 plan. The Trust is interested in supporting movement and network building to improve the policies and systems driving health inequities.
Helping Immigrant Families Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
En Español: Ayudando a las familias inmigrantes a responder a la pandemia de COVID-19
To help immigrant families weather challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and access a vaccine when available, the Trust will support immigrant-led organizations working closely with immigrant communities in North Carolina. To ensure that strong community-based networks exist to help immigrants and their families thrive, we encourage the submission of joint applications from groups to promote collaboration and coordination.
Implementing Strategies to Prevent and Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences
Organizations in Forsyth County are collaborating to map assets and make recommendations for mitigating the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the region by creating a more trauma informed community.
Implementing Strategies to Prevent and Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences
Organizations in Forsyth County are collaborating to map assets and make recommendations for mitigating the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the region by creating a more trauma informed community.
Increasing Family Economic Security in Forsyth County
Many Forsyth County families continue to experience persistent poverty. Addressing this complex problem requires solutions that are deeply informed and led by people closest to the problem. This funding opportunity supports a community inquiry process to recommend effective two-generation approaches to increase family economic security in Forsyth County.
Increasing Health Insurance Enrollment
Our goal is to increase insurance enrollment rates in underserved areas or among groups that have been marginalized to improve access and promote the sustainability of critical health services. The Trust will support communications, outreach and enrollment efforts that target communities with large numbers of eligible but unenrolled residents or counties with low enrollment penetration rates.
Increasing Health Insurance Enrollment
As Medicaid Expansion is implemented in North Carolina, the Trust will support efforts to ensure that groups who have been marginalized can access available health-supporting public benefit programs. Accurate information from trusted messengers will be critical to ensure that all eligible individuals are able to enroll. The Trust will support communications, outreach and enrollment efforts that target American Indian, Black, and Latinx individuals who are less likely to have health coverage due to historic and systemic inequities.