The Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona (LFSAZ) offers Innovative Grants to support projects that align with its mission of promoting population health and community wellness. These grants aim to foster innovation in addressing community health and wellbeing challenges within Cochise and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona. The foundation's strategic priority is to support initiatives that not only address immediate needs but also create sustainable solutions that can extend beyond the grant term.
The Innovative Grants focus on several key areas, encouraging proposals that convene organizations for collaborative efforts, engage in innovative mission-driven partnerships, and increase community capacity by tackling issues affecting health and wellbeing. LFSAZ particularly emphasizes projects that consider the design of systems and policies to improve health across various environments, including where people live, learn, work, worship, and play. This holistic approach ensures that projects address a broad spectrum of determinants of health.
Beyond basic physical needs, community outreach, and access to services, the foundation encourages applicants to consider how they might improve environmental, social, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, and emotional conditions that impact health and enable community members to be healthy and resilient. The target beneficiaries are the communities within Cochise and Santa Cruz Counties, with an overarching goal of improving population health and community wellness.
Expected outcomes include the implementation of new and innovative ways to perform existing programs, the introduction of new ideas, the creation of new collaborative partnerships, and the development of new programs or projects for organizations. The foundation's theory of change posits that by supporting innovative and collaborative projects that address the multifaceted determinants of health, communities will become more resilient and healthy, with solutions that can be sustained long-term. Measurable results would stem from the successful implementation and impact of these innovative projects on community health indicators.
