New Mexico Foundation: Native American Recovery Fund Zone

The Native American Recovery Fund Zone grant will provide flexible, capacity-building, and support grants to grassroots, Native-led projects and organizations supporting the long-term recovery needs of New Mexico’s Native American communities. The grant is a partnership between local and regional funders and groups, working together to support unique approaches by Native-led organizations in addressing recovery efforts in the following focus areas:
* Family Economic Security
* Local Health Systems
* Local Food Systems
* Opportunity Youth
* Water Resilience

In addition to pooling resources, funders will collaborate with community leaders over a three-year period to identify community-based approaches to opportunities and challenges, and also to support leadership capacity within organizations at a time when billions of dollars of federal funding will be flowing to Tribes. Through this partnership, community leaders will have the opportunity to build deeper relationships with funders and institutional leaders and to share their perspectives and local knowledge with policy makers.

Amount: Grants of $25,000 in general operating support will be awarded, followed by two years of implementation funding, if needed.

Eligibility: Nonprofits, tribes, or Native-led organizations with a fiscal sponsor.

Link: https://newmexicofoundation.org/native-american-recovery-fund-zone-grant/ ... See more

Con Alma Health Foundation: Community Rebuild Post Covid-19

Deadline: November 1, 2021.

Con Alma Health Foundation (CAHF) with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) seeks to support Vaccine Rollout and Community Rebuild Post Covid-19. CAHF is partnering with the New Mexico Health Equity Partnership (NMHEP), an initiative at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, to assist with this project. The NMHEP engages a statewide network to advance health equity in New Mexico. The project has two phases that will engage the community/nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, among others:

* Phase 1 (Implementation: June 1, 2021-December 31, 2021) centers on the promotion of a New Mexico Vaccine Rollout for equitable allocation, distribution, delivery access, promotion, and outreach; and
* Phase 2 (Implementation: January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022) primary focus is on Community Rebuild Post Covid-19 for communities to address the disproportionate impact Covid-19 has had on certain populations and the nonprofit sector in New Mexico.

Funding is currently available through Phase 2 (Community Rebuild Post Covid-19) to support nonprofit organizations whose efforts focus on children, families, and communities disproportionally impacted by Covid-19, and/or the nonprofit sector that have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19 in New Mexico. Successful applications will be community-centered (driven/informed), collaborative, multi-sectoral, clearly demonstrate health and racial equity approaches, and focus on systems-level solutions that take up the lessons, experiences, promising innovations, and transformative opportunities from the pandemic to ‘build back better.’

Strong proposals will also:
1. Address the disproportionate impact Covid-19 has had on certain populations (e.g., children and families, BIPOC, rural, low-income, people with disabilities, immigrants, elderly, LGBTQ, etc.); and/or,
the nonprofit sector in New Mexico.
2. Expand health equity by:
* Eliminating differences in quality, access, and underlying exposures which make some individuals, communities, and/or non-profits organizations more vulnerable than others.
* Expanding opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations and/or the nonprofit sector.
* Addressing at least one of the social determinants of health (SDOH) such as those indicated by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Healthy People 2030 (https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health) or as identified by the community.

Priority will be given to applications that:
a. Address barriers and/or opportunities through systems-level solutions that incorporate the lessons, experiences, promising innovations, and transformative opportunities from the Covid-19 pandemic to ‘build back better.’
b. Involve coordination and alignment among and across sectors (government, nonprofit, private/business sector).
c. Work within and/or across geographic areas (neighborhoods, sovereign nations, municipalities, counties, regions) in New Mexico.
d. Demonstrate engagement of and are representative of beneficiaries ‘as leaders’ in the proposed work.
e. Increase the capacity of stakeholders to mobilize/leverage resources.
f. Prioritize underserved areas of New Mexico (e.g., rural/frontier, tribal, border, underserved metro/ neighborhoods) and populations that need additional support (e.g., children and families, BIPOC, rural, low-income, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, youth, elderly, LGBTQ+, etc.) or aspects within the nonprofit sector that need increased capacity.
g. Consider the complexity and challenges that are still unfolding related to Covid-19, including racial disparities, vaccine, and health equity fears of Covid-19 surges, pandemic fatigue, information overload, and the challenges experienced by people and/or nonprofit organizations that are not fully recovered from the impacts of Covid-19.
h. Integrate health equity and racial equity and health in all policies (HiAP) in their efforts.
i. Provide a clear relation between the request to be funded and Covid-19.
j. Show association between proposed expenses/costs and the desired outcomes.

Amount: Awards range up to $100,000 over a twelve-month period. Disbursement of payments are detailed below:
* Awards of $50,000 or less will be paid in one disbursement.
* Awards of $50,001 to $100,000 will be paid in two disbursements (1st payment: mid-January 2022; 2nd payment is contingent on submission and status of progress report).

Eligibility: Applicant organization must have 501(c)(3) public charity status or have a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)(3) status. The grant must benefit people living in New Mexico. This grant opportunity is open to current and past grant recipients. Additional eligibility notes:
* The Foundation will generally not consider projects with activities replacing public sector health-related services. Services that supplement or expand health-related services of the public sector are accepted.
* No grant will be made to fund construction or renovation unless such expense is directly related to Covid-19 and does not exceed $5,000 per any one item.
* Those funded through CAHF’s Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout and Promotion grants during Phase 1 are eligible to apply for consideration for this Phase 2 funding opportunity focused on community rebuild.

Link: https://conalma.org/grantmaking/for-grant-seekers/

Note: A Pre-Proposal Workshop/Dialogue will be held on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 1:00pm-2:30pm. Register to participate at www.conalma.org or to view recording post-workshop by visiting CAHF’s website. ... See more

Corporation for National and Community Service: AmeriCorps State and National Public Health AmeriCorps

Deadline: November 8, 2021

The mission of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic participation through service and volunteering. The current funding opportunity includes a priority for efforts to help local communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants may propose programming to aid communities in their efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

AmeriCorps grants are awarded to organizations proposing to engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions/practices to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is an individual who engages in community service through an approved national service position. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits while serving. Upon successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award from the National Service Trust that members can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans.

Public Health AmeriCorps will include funding that will enable the recruitment, training, and development of a new generation of public health leaders who are ready to respond to the public health needs of the nation by providing public health service in communities. AmeriCorps members will serve primarily in state, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments or in service to public health departments. It is strongly recommended that AmeriCorps members serve in at least teams of two. AmeriCorps has found that placing at least two members at a service site location provides economies of scale and aids in retention of members.

Public Health AmeriCorps goals include:
* Help meet public health needs of local communities by providing needed capacity and support in state and local public health settings and advancing more equitable health outcomes for communities who are currently or historically underserved.
* Provide pathways to good quality public health-related careers by providing exposure through onsite experience, training, and more, with a focus on recruiting AmeriCorps members who reflect the communities in which they will serve.

Amount: $400,000,000 will be available over five years. Award amounts will vary as determined by the scope of the projects. The Maximum Costs per Member Service Year (MSY) is $28,000 for the individual competitive State/Territory Program, Tribes, and for the multi-state competitive program. Award periods will be for three-years. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement.

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations; states; local governments; institutions of higher education; and Indian tribes. Organizations must apply to operate in more than one state.

Note: Organizations that operate one state must apply through their Governor-appointed State Commission. The State Commission will be consulted during the grantmaking process. Each state and territory administers its own selection process and puts forward to CNCS the applicants it selects to compete for funding. State applicants must contact their State Commissions to learn about their state or territory processes and deadlines. The State Commission for New Mexico is the New Mexico Commission for Community Volunteerism: https://www.dws.state.nm.us/nmccv/Funding-Opportunities/Funding-Overview

Link: https://www.americorps.gov/funding-opportunity/fy-2022-americorps-state-national-public-health-americorps ... See more