Healthy Communities Foundation is a health conversion foundation. We helped them to re-brand and developed this presentation to introduce their new strategic plan and 2018 RFP to the communities they serve.

1. COMMUNITY INFO SESSION
Tues., August 21, 2018

2. WELCOME & OVERVIEW
Grace Hou, Board Chair
Maria Soco Pesqueira, President
Elyse Forkosh Cutler, Program Committee Chair
Nora Garcia, Program Officer
Tina Ramirez Moon, Program Officer

3. Overview
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TODAY’S AGENDA
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Grantmaking Guidelines
& Application
Welcome
01
02 Research, Framework,
Strategic Plan
03 Q & A
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Q & A

4. Mission:
Welcome
We are a community-informed grant
making foundation that seeks to
measurably improve the health and
well-being of individuals, families and
communities in our service area by
promoting health equity, quality, and
access.
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5. Welcome
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That all residents of our
communities lead full, healthy, and
happy lives and enjoy equal life
expectancy.
Strategic Vision:

6. Welcome
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Commitment to Racial & Ethnic Equity
HCF understands that systemic
conditions such as implicit bias and
institutional/structural racism impede
access and opportunities that improve
well-being and a sustainable quality of
life.
We intend to use our platform and
resources to create change, forge
partnerships, and share learning through
a focused and visible commitment to
address these disparities and achieve
health equity.
Our Beliefs

7. Maria Soco Pesqueira
President
OUR COMMUNITIES:
WHAT WE KNOW

8. Qualitative
Data Analysis
Our Communities
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Quantitative
Community Perspectives

9. Our Communities
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Quantitative
Research
Primary source: SUHI commission to analyze and rank 28
zip codes according to social determinants of health
Secondary source: Study of 33 HCF foundations,
RWJ Social Determinants of Health, Wisconsin
Health Equity Study
Primary source: Greater Cities
Analysis of 2017 applicants and
grantees

10. Our Communities
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Policies & Programs
Health Factors
Health Outcomes
Length of Life (50%)
Quality of Life (50%)
Sexual Activity
Health Behaviors
(30%)
Tobacco Use
Diet & Exercise
Alcohol & Drug Use
Clinical Care
(20%)
Access to Care
Quality of Care
Social &
Economical Factors
(40%)
Education
Employment
Income
Family & Social Support
Community Safety
Physical
Environment (10%)
Air & Water Quality
Housing & Transit
University of Wisconsin Population
Health Institute. County Health
Rankings & Roadmaps 2017
www.countyhealthrankings.org

11. Our Communities
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Local Health Outcomes:
SUHI Zip Code rankings
• Deep Disparities: Significant differences in health
from communities adjacent to one another.
• Declining Income: Decrease in median household
income in priority areas.
• Shifting Demographics: More Latinx and African
American populations within the overall HCF region.

12. Our Communities
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Local Demographic Trends
Overall HCF service area has a population
of 900,000 residents, roughly a third of the
City of Chicago.
Latinx compose nearly
50% of the total HCF
population.

13. Local Assets: Community Organizations
Our Communities
• Over 300 unique organizations in
service area by category:
• Primary Care (38)
• Behavioral Health (44)
• Human Services (188)
• Disability (30)
• Advocacy/Policy (51)
• Breadth
• 40 span two categories
• 3 span three categories
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38
44
188
30
51
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Primary Care
(FQHC, FCC,
Residency)
Behavioral Health
(OP or IP)
Human Services Disability Advocacy/Policy

14. Local Health Access Data
Our Communities
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42% of individuals residing in the
service area are low-income and
19% live in poverty.
The highest concentrations of
low-income and poverty are in
Cicero, Maywood, and Austin.
10% of residents cannot access
health insurance and 30% are
insured through Medicaid.
Whites compose 30% of the total
population in the HCF region, while
Latinx, African-Americans and Asians
compose the majority at 70%.

15. Our Communities
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Qualitative
Research
Community Convenings, 100 reps from 80 orgs.
In process of convening 8 community resident
focus groups around the region
Peer conversations with
Met with academic health
researchers
• 3 National health conversion foundations
• 5 Local health conversion foundations
• 9 National experts at Health and philanthropy conferences

16. Our Communities
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Learnings from Community Convenings
Social Determinants:
Access to housing; transportation; poverty
Access To:
Care; food; medicine
Mental Health/Behavioral:
Lack of services; substance abuse
Fragmentation:
Disinvestment; need for coordination
Violence/Trauma:
Community; domestic

17. Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
Energizing the spirit and potential
of our local community
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Core Values

18. Core Values
Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
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Supporting efforts to provide tools that build healthier lives.

19. Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
Core Values
Pursuing our work with an
equity frame.
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20. Core Values
Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
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Addressing immediate community needs while
investing in long-term systems change.

21. Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
Valuing experiential and
evidence-based practices that
produce measurable results.
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Core Values

22. Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
Core Values
Bringing stakeholders together
to share wisdom and cultivate
trust, collaboration, and
coordination.
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23. Core Values
Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
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Maintaining the highest legal and ethical standards in the
stewardship of foundation resources.

24. Health Equity as a Guiding
Principle and Lens
Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
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Two Big Strategic Goals
EQUALITY VS. EQUITY
Save Lives /
Years of Life
Lost
Improve Well-
Being / Quality
of Life

25. Overarching Framework for Strategic Plan
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LEGACY & HEALTH EQUITY
PRIORITY ZONES - Majority of funding to
Core HCF and high-need communities as
defined by MacNeal Hospital service map
and SUHI zip code rankings.

26. STRATEGIC PLAN
Elyse Forkosh Cutler Program
Committee Chair

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Funding efforts that
Strategic Plan
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Provide ACCESS to quality health care
ADDRESS social determinants of health
ADVOCATE for health policies and
systems change
ACTIVATE knowledge through
capacity-building, research, and
other initiatives.

28. Strategic Plan
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Meaningfully engage community organizations, leaders,
residents and government entities
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

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Continuously learn about and be a
source of information regarding its
communities
Strategic Plan
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

30. Strategic Plan
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Collaborate with other foundations,
learning/research institutions, and thought
leaders
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

31. Grantmaking Principles
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a. Focus on
racial and ethnic equity.
b. Community-defined solutions as a process
and an outcome.
c. Long-term partnerships and commitments.
d. Fluidity in response to emerging strategies
and crisis.
e. Grounded in community experience,
evidence-based strategies and evaluation
f. Leverage the power of collaborations and
efforts at the intersection of issues/strategies.
g. General operating support to catalyze and
sustain systems change.

32. Investment Approaches
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General operating
support (Open RFP)
2018
Strategic initiatives
(LOI / By Invitation)
• SDOH
• Access to Care
• Fulfills Research or data needs
Capacity Building
• Access to Care
• SDOH
• Training
• Collaboration

33. Implementation Timeline
Phased in 2018 2020
• 2018 funds available for General
Operating Support
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Phased in implementation of
other priority investments
• Strategic Initiatives
• Capacity Building
2018 2019 2020

34. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

35. 2018 GRANT CYCLE
Nora Garcia
Program Officer
Tina Ramirez Moon
Program Officer

36. GRANTMAKING GUIDELINES

37. To be considered for funding, an organization
must be able to demonstrate that
programs/services align with at least one of
these categories:
Grantmaking Framework
ACCESS
to quality health
care
ADDRESS
social
determinants of
health
ADVOCATE
for health policies
and systems change;
and
AUGMENT
knowledge through
capacity-building,
learning, and other
health-related
initiatives
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38. Addressing common barriers to timely care:
Grantmaking Framework
ACCESS to quality health care
High
costs,
Inadequate or no insurance
coverage,
Lack of
available
services,
Long wait
times
Lack of culturally
competent care.
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39. Aspects of everyday life such as housing, jobs, education,
transportation, and outdoor space can influence health
outcomes.
Grantmaking Framework
ADDRESS social determinants of health
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Socioeconomic factors
Changing the Context
To make individuals’ default decisions healthy
Long-lasting
Protective Interventions
Clinical
Interventions
Counseling
& Education
Largest
Impact
Smallest
Impact
Poverty,
education
Tobacco taxes,
Health Laws
Smoking Cessation
treatments
Eating healthy, Physical
Education Classes
Rx for high blood pressure,
diabetes medications

40. HCF works to impact
existing structures and
policies to create more
opportunities for
communities to have a
voice at the table
where decisions are
made.
Grantmaking Framework
ADVOCATE for health-related policies and systems change
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41. For this grantmaking cycle, HCF seeks to
invest in efforts that contribute to
community-driven and/or community-
specific research, data collection, and
analysis. Such efforts should investigate,
disseminate, and otherwise contribute to
field of local health.
Grantmaking Framework
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AUGMENT knowledge through capacity building

42. Grant Cycle Timeline
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August 17, 2018 September 17, 2018
August 21, 2018 Early December
Grant application
opens online
HCF Information
Session
Application submission
deadline
Board meeting and
grant notification
2018 submission window:
Application closes at 12PM Central Time

43. To be considered for funding,
organizations must:
Eligibility
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Serve individuals living in
the defined funding region.
Be a nonprofit organization (or have a
fiscal agent) that is exempt from the
federal income tax under provisions of
section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code.

44. Grantmaking Guidelines
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HCF will not fund:
Partisan political
activities Religious activities
Endowments/Capital
campaigns
Individuals/busines
ses
Scholarships National organizations
without an intentional focus
in HCF region.

45. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

46. Live Poll
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47. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Organizational Profile
Proposal Narrative
HCF Service Region
Population Served Demographic Profile
Board and Staff Demographic Profile

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II. Narrative Outline
1. Application Type
RENEWAL NEW
• Did not receive funding in 2017
• Did not apply in 2017.
This includes organizations that received
funding previous to 2017, but not in 2017.
Full Proposal
RENEWAL Ongoing Work
• Applied and received funding in 2017
Condensed Proposal Brief Proposal

49. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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III.
HCF Service Regions &
Demographic Profile Worksheet
IV.
Download
worksheet from
website.

50. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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V. Board and Staff Demographic Profile

51. Application Instructions
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ONLINE GRANTS PORTAL
• To apply for funding in the 2018
cycle, all organizations must
create an account on WizeHive.
• Application instructions are
on the website:
https://healthycommunitiesfdn.org/gra
nt-proposal-instructions/
› Update address information
› Begin a proposal application, save
work and submit it when ready.
› Access submitted documents

52. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

53. THANK YOU

54. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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I. Organizational Profile

55. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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II. Narrative Outline
1. Application Type
2. Request Summary
3. Narrative
4. Collaboration
5. Engagement
6. Leadership
7. Evaluation
8. Organization Walk-Through
9. Attachments

56. Application Instructions > Application Sections
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III. HCF Service Regions