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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.

Examples might include:

• Community asset mapping for existing efforts and potential partners engaged in healthy eating, active living or value-based health system change initiatives.
• Projects that build on existing community resources.
• Leadership development.
• Creative solutions to increase community engagement in healthy living and/or systems change efforts that enable and support health promotion and effective self-management of chronic diseases.
• Creation of tools or communication strategies for information and knowledge sharing regarding healthy living and systems change.
• Community organizing and advocacy to promote healthy communities and value-based health systems.

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.

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 community decision process involving the perspectives of people from diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

Politically-Focused Projects

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