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What We're Looking For

SLHI seeks opportunities to invest in organizations and groups that join together to develop and implement innovative ideas focusing on prevention and wellness that potentially lay the groundwork for long-term change.

We’re looking for people or organizations who spark ideas and don’t run the show on their own. This work is about people who partner and share leadership in the process of stimulating, promoting and making their communities better places to live and work.

Communities of Practice (CoP)

SLHI is also looking for ways to leverage this work and have found Communities of Practice (CoP) to be an effective strategy. CoPs are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. Although the term is relatively new, the phenomenon it refers to is age-old as the concept provides a useful perspective on knowing and learning.

Therefore, although all proposals received may not be funded, all those who submit proposals are invited to participate in the HNK Community of Practice for that grant cycle.

We seek a broad range of ideas. Funding can be used for a number of community-based efforts. Examples might include:

• Community asset mapping for existing prevention efforts and potential partners.
• Creative solutions to increase community engagement in health promotion and effective management of chronic diseases.
• Projects that build on existing community resources.
• Creation of tools or communication strategies for information and knowledge sharing regarding health, wellness and disease prevention.
• Community organizing and advocacy to promote health and wellness in the community.
• Leadership development.

What We Are Not Looking For

Solo Acts

• Services, programs, campaigns, or efforts that are "owned” by one person or organization, as opposed to a group decision process involving people of varied types and backgrounds.

Politically-Focused Projects

• Lobbying or election campaign activities.
• Ideas that represent a political view or ideology that excludes some groups of people.