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The Kresge Foundation is making available two new granting opportunities to directly support community health organizations in addressing the critical needs of underserved populations.

The Health Clinic Opportunity Fund is targeted to free clinics, public health clinics and those designated federally qualified health center look-alikes and is designed to support and strengthen their capacity to meet both the immediate and long-term health needs of their constituents. The initial wave of proposals is due September 4, 2009 with awards made in December 2009. A second wave of proposals is due March 1, 2010.

The foundation’s Safety-net Enhancement Initiative seeks to demonstrate how community health centers can address health disparities, enhance service delivery and care, and improve outcomes through collaboration and regional partnerships. Application details for this initiative will be posted on the Kresge Foundation Web site on September 1, 2009.

David D. Fukuzawa, Kresge program director and Health team leader, emphasized that community health centers will play an important role in health care reform by demonstrating how primary care can help reduce costs and provide access for the nation’s under- and uninsured populations.

These two new initiatives join an existing Kresge effort – Safety-net Facility Improvement – which utilizes Kresge’s traditional challenge grant approach in supporting clinic and hospital capital improvements.

Two other new Kresge health-related programs include: Healthy Environments, which focuses on reducing environmental risks for vulnerable children; and Emerging and Promising Practices, which stimulates new knowledge and innovative linkages across sectors to improve health.

To learn more about each effort, their goals, eligibility criteria and the process for submitting letters of inquiry, please visit the Health Program portion of the Kresge Web site.

If you have questions, e-mail our Grants Inquiry Coordinator or call 248-643-9630.