Common Ground Healthcare Foundation Grant

The Common Ground Healthcare Foundation offers grants to bolster health and prosperity within communities, aligning with its mission to support individuals in its service area. The foundation provides program or project support, as well as unrestricted grants for organizations whose missions closely resonate with its own. This approach underscores a strategic priority to foster community well-being through direct funding and support for aligned initiatives. The grants target individuals within the Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative service area, specifically across 24 counties in Wisconsin including Brown, Calumet, Dodge, Door, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Milwaukee, Oconto, Outagamie, Ozaukee, Racine, Shawano, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago counties. The foundation's impact goals are centered on enhancing the health and prosperity of these individuals. The foundation prioritizes projects that articulate a well-defined need, propose clear actions, build organizational capacity towards self-sufficiency, leverage collaboration for greater impact, and demonstrate feasibility with a reasonable level of risk. Furthermore, projects must present an accurate and appropriate budget, attract additional funding, and clearly define meaningful, measurable outcomes. These criteria reflect the foundation's strategic emphasis on sustainable and impactful community development. Expected outcomes include measurable improvements in health and prosperity for individuals within the service area. The foundation seeks projects with clearly defined outcomes and methods to report actual results, emphasizing a long-term impact relative to cost. This focus on measurable outcomes and long-term impact is integral to the foundation's theory of change, which posits that strategic investment in well-planned, collaborative, and sustainable programs will lead to significant and lasting community benefits. Eligibility for these grants extends to nonprofit organizations with a 501(c)(3) designation, governmental bodies such as schools or municipalities, or organizations that agree to dedicate funds to purposes described in I.R.C. § 170(c)(2)(B). All applicants must serve the individuals within the specified Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative service area and operate without discrimination. This ensures that the foundation's grants reach eligible and ethically sound organizations committed to the foundation's mission.