America’s Promise Healthy Schools

Fund

Applicant Informational Webinar

November 28th 2017

Agenda

• America’s Promise Alliance background

• Overview and purpose of the Healthy Schools Fund

• What we’re looking for

• Eligibility

• Selection criteria

• Application contents

• Timeline

• Q&A

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A Healthy Start

Effective Education

Caring Adults

Opportunities To Serve

Safe Places

Five PROMISES

400+NATIONAL PARTNERS

250+STATE & COMMUNITY PARTNERS

America’s Promise

Alliance

Healthy Schools Fund Overview and Purpose

The America’s Promise Healthy Schools Fund is part of Together for Healthy

and Successful Schools, a collaborative initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation.

As a part of this initiative, America’s Promise Alliance seeks to activate and align

existing and new stakeholders at both the local and national levels to support

healthy school environments.

Overview and Purpose

Overview and Purpose

• America’s Promise extends this grant opportunity to organizations

and communities working to create healthier school environments

for all children

• America’s Promise will award three to five grants of up to

$150,000 each per year for two years (for a total of up to $300,000)

America’s Promise Healthy Schools Fund

Overview and Purpose

America’s Promise has partnered with five leading organizations to work with

communities to learn about successfully supporting health and well-being in

schools.Key learning questions that will guide our work:

• What factors help or hinder schools in creating healthier school environments?

• What levers can influence local, state, and federal school health policies?

• What are the most effective ways to build public and political will to promote

students’ health and well-being?

Overview and Purpose

By joining this effort, grantees will drive local change while serving as models for

national awareness building and learning.

Grantees will have the opportunities to engage in the following support/activities

to accelerate their work toward creating healthy schools:

• Partnerships with content expert advisors

• Youth engagement expertise

• National and local communications support

• Access to a learning community

What we’re looking for

Eligibility

Applicants MUST:

1. Be a public, private, or non-profit organization with an explicit mission to serve children, youth, and

communities (e.g. community-based organization, foundation, government agency, school district,

collective impact coalition)

2. Be connected to multiple sectors (e.g. health, education, housing, economic development) and

stakeholders across the community

3. Demonstrate evidence of prior collaboration with key stakeholders on health or education initiatives

4. Have school district commitment as a partner to the initiative and evidence of a collaborative relationship

with key district leaders/officials; If the applicant is a school district, it must have community partner

commitment and evidence of a collaborative relationship with leaders in the community

5. Have commitment to health equity and to serving young people facing the greatest obstacles to thriving

6. Be active in one of the following states: Alaska, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho,

Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota,

Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, or Washington

Selection Criteria

1. Demonstrated prior leadership in collective actions to change how systems, institutions, and

individuals interact

2. Strong goals and compelling vision for leveraging this grant to advance healthy schools in

your community

3. Clear articulation of how this grant furthers collaborative efforts. Insight into strategies and

tactics will be pursued with additional support

4. Thoughtful approach for initiating or expanding authentic engagement of young people and

other stakeholders

5. Experience in areas of the Whole School, Whole Child, Whole Community (WSCC) model

and identification of new or existing local partners involved in further developing those efforts

Application Contents

Application Contents

All applications must be submitted via the

Grant Application Portal

Application Contents

• Applicant information

• School district(s)/community partner(s) letter(s) of commitment, lead/fiscal org information

• Section A: Local context and collaborative efforts to date

• Three narrative questions

• Section B: Acceleration vision and plan

• Seven narrative questions

• Appendix 1: Core partnership support offerings

• Checkbox options for learning and capacity-building opportunities from core partners

• Note: Number/type of supports identified will not be used for evaluating proposals

• Budget and budget narrative

• One Excel template (2 tabs)

• Scope of work

• One Word template

Application Contents

Tab 2 Tab 1

Budget and Budget

Narrative

Application Contents

Timeline

November 13 2017 – Application package released

November 28 2017 – Informational webinar

December 7 2017 – Informational webinar

January 22 2018 – Application deadline (8 pm ET)

March 14 2018 – Announcement of funding decisions

April 2018 – Grant start date

April 2020 – Grant end date

*America’s Promise may reach out to finalists during the review process to pose clarifying questions.

Questions ?

• To ask a question, use the chat box in the panel on the right

• Download the FAQ document (FAQ will be updated on a regular basis)

• Email healthyschools@americaspromise.org for any additional questions during the application period

• These slides will be posted on the America’s Promise Healthy Schools Fund web page: www.americaspromise.org/healthy-schools-fund