PROVIDENCE – The RIGHA Foundation Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation seeks grant applications from entities focused on improving primary health care and health outcomes. Grant applications are due by Aug. 29, and the Rhode Island Foundation anticipates disseminating a total of nearly $300,000 to some six to 10 successful grantees. Nonprofit organizations in Rhode Island and municipalities – in collaboration with such nonprofit organizations – are eligible to apply.
With healthy lives one of Rhode Island Foundation’s three core objectives – along with educational success and economic security – Larry Warner, strategic initiatives officer for the foundation’s health sector, said in a statement, “We … [seek] proposals that will have the greatest impact on the provision of quality and affordable health care services, and connecting individuals with community health resources needed for better health outcomes.”
Grant proposals should address community needs, contain measurable outcomes and demonstrate a willingness to think creatively about non-traditional partners and collaborative capacity, including promoting partnerships among public and private payers, health care providers and other practitioners.
The RIGHA Foundation Fund was created after Harvard Pilgrim Health Care acquired the former Rhode Island Group Health Association. In 2010, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and the RIGHA Foundation transferred its $1.7 million endowment to the foundation, according to the statement. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care continues to make annual payments to the fund, which promotes the development of a successful and effective primary health care system in Rhode Island, according to the Rhode Island Foundation.
Through the RIGHA Fund, the foundation has distributed almost $1.5 million in grant monies through the years; including such recent grantees as WellOne Primary Medical and Dental Care, Thundermist Health Center, The Providence Center, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, the City of Central Falls and Blackstone Valley Community Health Care.
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