Mini Grant Overview
Mini-Grant Focus: The American Heart Association is a part of Palm Beach County’s Culture of Health Network which seeks to improve conditions impacting our ability to be well and to live into our fullest health potential. With funds from HCA Foundation and Palm Health Foundation, the American Heart Association is expanding the work of the Culture of Health Network across our service area of Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie County. The priority is on funding projects that create sustainable change focused on improving community conditions and impacting resident health. This could be through policy, system, or built environment change to build capacity or enhance health equity. To be eligible application must focus on ONE of the following priority areas:
1. Blood pressure Control
- Routine community-based blood pressure screenings with connection to clinical care (as needed)
-Increasing access to equipment for blood pressure readings
-Training staff and community on blood pressure basics
-Increasing access to free & low-cost activities for blood pressure control
2. Nutrition Security
-Establish a new market or healthy food outlet to provide for sustainable access to fruits and vegetables
-Establish health nutrition standards at food bank/pantry
-Establish new SNAP, WIC, or double bucks program at eligible farmers market or food outlet
-Purchase additional cold storage and/or shelving to increase fruits and vegetables served at pantry
-Nutrition security screenings of ALL clients
-Training staff on how to connect clients to food assistance programs
-Connect residents to enrollment assistance for USDA benefits assistance programs for eligible clients (WIC, SNAP, etc.)
-Offer nutrition education for residents
3. Tobacco-free Environments
-Establish vape and smoke-free site policy
-Post vape and smoke-free site signage
-Tobacco use screening for ALL clients
-Connection to free or low-cost cessation classes for eligible clients
-Train staff on the tobacco use and how to connect clients to cessation resources
-Host educational programming about the effects of tobacco use
4. Cardiac Emergency Response
-Policy on routine training of staff about hands-only CPR
-Routine training of community about hands-only CPR
Award Amount: Mini-grants can be up to $2,500
Eligibility Criteria & Requirements:
-Your organization must be a nonprofit 501(c)(3), government agency, or civic organization in Palm Beach, Martin or St. Lucie County
-Proposed project must address one of the following priority areas using one or more of the evidence-based strategies listed above in a way that feels authentic to your community.
-Blood Pressure Control
-Nutrition Security
-Tobacco-free Environments
-Cardiac Emergency Response
-Organization representative must attend live information session via Zoom on December 19th at 1 PM OR watch recording
https://heart.zoom.us/rec/share/PINds3fN4A0ZIyzHTSFW3zrOaeQoYeUZq7GTGb7EOttdiivqEPLuYQa7bEDLDYtq.TOJjgd1B9ghWwxIR
-Submit application with required uploads by Friday, January 13th at 11:59 PM
-You must agree to complete a memorandum of understanding (MOU) MOU within one week of receiving your award notification.
-Applicants will be notified on Friday, January 27th whether they will receive funding or not. If awarded, you will provide representation at the Culture of Health Convening on Monday, January 30th at 3 PM via Zoom. More details to come.
-You must agree to have at least one representative attend monthly virtual convening January- April of 2023 and final in-person convening May 2022.
-You must agree to have an American Heart Association representative follow up on your progress at 6-month mark. Once your project is completed, your representative will work with you to draft an impact story documenting your success. You must agree to contribute to and sign-off on this impact story. You will be notified of your representative at the time you are notified of funding.
-Please note, if your organization received funding through previous American Heart Association RFPs, that grant deliverable must be completed and sustainable change made to qualify for this funding opportunity, and new funding must be to support a new or different sustainable project/initiative.