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Standard Grants

The Central Oregon Health Council is responsible for investing $12 million in the communities in our region between January 2020 and December 2024. These investments must directly impact our Regional Health Improvement Plan. Our priority areas each have a workgroup of community members who decide together how to invest the funds.

When there are specific unmet needs in our communities, the workgroups create grant opportunities, also known as Requests for Proposal (RFPs). These Requests for Proposal must impact one measure in the Regional Health Improvement Plan (for example, increasing high school graduation rates or decreasing food insecurity). Click here to review the scoring matrix used for standard grants. See instructions for applying for grants with access codes.

Please see the current open RFPs below for more details.

 

Capacity Building for Housing Advocacy: Individual, Organizational and Systems Level Skill Building

The RHIP Stable Housing and Supports Workgroup is accepting grant applications for projects to strengthen and develop skills, processes and resources of individuals, organizations and communities to continue, initiate, promote and support housing-related policy changes at all levels of our communities (individual, organizational, city, regional, state, federal).  Efforts should be related to one or more of the following:

  • Decreasing severely rent and mortgage-burdened households.
  • Increasing Housing Choice Voucher holders able to find and lease a unit.

To learn more about this opportunity, please click HERE.

Selection Schedule:
Request For Proposal (RFP) Released: October 23, 2023
Application Submission Closes: December 4, 2023
Notification of Award: January 30, 2024

If you have questions about this Request for Proposal or need technical assistance filling out the application, please contact Gwen Jones by email at gwen.jones@cohealthcouncil.org

Building Skills for Promoting Preventative Health

The RHIP Promote Enhanced Physical Health Across Communities Workgroup is accepting grant applications for projects to strengthen and develop skills, processes and resources of individuals, organizations, and communities to continue, initiate, promote and/or support health-related policy changes at all levels of our communities (individual, organizational, city, regional, state, federal).  Projects should be related to one or more of the following: prevention of chronic disease, improvement in youth physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, reduction in sexually transmitted infections, increasing oral health care.

Future State Measures:

  • Decrease asthma, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes rates, obesity rates, risk factors for cardio-pulmonary and/or preventable diseases.
  • Decrease sexually transmitted infections.
  • Increase fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity in youth.
  • Increase individuals receiving both an annual wellness visit and preventative dental visit.

To learn more about this opportunity, please click HERE.

Selection Schedule:
Request For Proposal (RFP) Released: October 6, 2023
Application Submission Closes: November 22, 2023
Notification of Award: January 30, 2024

If you have questions about this Request for Proposal or need technical assistance filling out the application, please contact Gwen Jones by email at gwen.jones@cohealthcouncil.org

Media Campaign to Reduce Binge Drinking Among 18-34 Year Old’s

The RHIP Substance and Alcohol Workgroup is accepting applications for the development and implementation of an inclusive and engaging media campaign to shift cultural norms and attitudes around reducing binge drinking and specifically addresses the following Future State Measure of the Regional Health Improvement Plan (RHIP):

By December 2024, only 25% of adults aged 18 to 34 in Central Oregon reported binge drinking on at least one occasion over the past 30 days.

This campaign is to empower individuals and prompt community discussions and change. The RHIP Substance and Alcohol Workgroup intends this campaign to promote community action and change. Outside of this RFP, there will be future separately funded activities and events that align with the campaign materials.

Applicants may, but are not required to, customize and localize the Oregon Health Authority’s Rethink the Drink Campaign material with permission. Applicants are encouraged to review the Assessment of Factors Contributing to Binge Drinking Among 18-34 year-olds in Central Oregon report to guide their application.

To learn more about this opportunity, please click HERE.

THIS GRANT OPPORTUNITY IS CLOSED.

If you have questions about this Request for Proposal, please contact MaCayla Arsenault via email at macayla.arsenault@cohealthcouncil.org

Mini Grant Opportunities

The mini-grant funding cycle is open year-round until further notice. All requests must be $5,000 or less and address at least one Future State Measure in the six priority areas of the Regional Health Improvement Plan.

Click here to learn more about mini grants.

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