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Types of Grants
MeHAF provides funding through several vehicles, including initiative-based competitive requests for proposals (RFP), discretionary (small) grants, invited proposals, and technical assistance contracts. All of our grants must advance our mission of expanding access to health care in Maine, particularly for people who are uninsured and medically underserved. Currently, the Foundation offers:
Initiative-based Grants
The MeHAF Board determined that to leverage our resources most effectively, the Foundation must support strategic interventions that will help transform health care in Maine. Our goal is to transform our current fragmented health system into a high quality, efficient, inclusive and patient-centered system. Because system-level reform is a long-term and complex process, MeHAF supports both short-term improvements as well as strategies for long-term, comprehensive change.
Three major priorities frame MeHAF's major grant funding and related programs. This approach involves periodic competitive grant solicitations, as well as analytic efforts, such as environmental scans, research, and staff outreach. To read about priority areas and current initiatives, please refer to our funding priorities.
Discretionary Grants (Small Grants)
MeHAF's Discretionary Grants support small projects or activities that advance the Foundation’s mission. Discretionary grants involve a maximum one-time award of $10,000 and a grant period of no more than one year.
Applications for discretionary grants are accepted on an ongoing basis for small projects or limited activities such as meeting and convening support, research and planning efforts, surveys, targeted studies, or minor equipment purchases. Awards are typically under $5,000 for most projects and under $2,000 for meeting and conference support. However, awards may be granted for the maximum of $10,000 for highly strategic activities or statewide programs.
Discretionary Grant applications are accepted throughout the year. If you are interested in applying, review the information and criterion outlined on the website, then call to discuss your project or idea with Barbara Leonard at (207) 620-8266 , ext. 102. Foundation-initiated Grants
Important opportunities that will advance MeHAF's mission do not always occur sequentially nor when the Foundation has a relevant competitive major grant cycle open. To support innovative, unique and strategic opportunities that can substantively advance our mission, MeHAF will consider requests for a Foundation-initiated Grant. Projects funded through this mechanism typically involve statewide activities and broad-based partnerships or multi-organization collaborations as well as substantial involvement of Foundation staff in the shaping of the project. Projects must leverage MeHAF and other resources to promote system-level advances in access to health care and improvement in health for people in Maine who are uninsured and underserved. If you are interested in this funding opportunity, review the information outlined on the website, then call to discuss your project or idea with Barbara Leonard at (207) 620-8266 , ext. 102.
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