Community Grants - Wisconsin Partnership Program

Grants support the implementation of a wide range of initiatives that align with the Wisconsin Idea and work toward the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s overarching goal of improving the health and well-being of Wisconsinites. Our competitive community grant programs include:

Community Collaboration Grants provide organizations with training and technical assistance to address health inequities stemming from the social determinants of health.

Community Impact Grants support evidence-informed community partnership initiatives that address the social determinants of health to improve health in Wisconsin’s urban and rural communities.

Maternal and Child Health Grants support community organizations’ efforts to strengthen and expand their capacity and community models of care to reduce maternal and infant health disparities with a focus on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by health inequities.

COVID-19 Response Grants provided support to community organizations across the state to address the immediate and ongoing challenges and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including grants to address the pandemic’s impact on the social and emotional health of Wisconsin’s adolescents.

Five-Year Plan

Learn more about the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s vision, mission and values as well as its goals and grant-making strategies as described in the 2019-2024 Five-Year Plan.

Community Collaboration Grant Program

Grantees addressing health inequities receive technical assistance and support as they strengthen and expand assets and partnerships, develop community-driven plans and take action toward systems change.

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Past Recipients

Community Impact Grant Program

Through the Community Impact Grant Program, the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s Oversight and Advisory Committee (OAC) supports evidence-informed, community partnership initiatives that address the social determinants of health to advance health equity in Wisconsin’s urban and rural communities.

These partnerships require substantial and authentic community leadership to make progress toward sustainability and must be supported by evaluation.

Social determinants of health — economic stability, social and community context, access to health services and health care, neighborhoods and the built environment and education — have a strong and scientifically proven impact on human health and well-being. The structures, policies, systems and environments that guide an individual’s daily lives shape these determinants and thereby enhance or impede health. As such, many of the complex health issues are rooted in structural inequities that affect the health status of disproportionately affected populations.

Proposals must address health inequities and their root causes and be informed and implemented by those who are most affected by these inequities. Community partnerships strengthen our ability to successfully address and influence health and advance health equity.

The 2024 Level Two Request for Partnerships will be released in April. The Level One Request for Partnerships is out now.

Information Sessions

Application Materials and Links

Now Open! Applicants may submit a Level One: Engage Letter of Intent at any time.

2024 Community Impact Grant Level One Request for Partnerships

Past Recipients

Questions?
If you are not ready to apply for a Community Impact grant but would like to learn more about the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s grantmaking process, we invite you to apply to serve as a reviewer. Please complete our reviewer interest form or contact our program officers:

Aimee Haese
alhaese@wisc.edu

Kattia Jimenez
kjimenez@wisc.edu

Maternal and Child Health Grant Program

The Wisconsin Partnership Program has a long history of supporting efforts to improve health outcomes for Wisconsin’s mothers and babies. Our maternal and child health funding mechanism supports a broad range of community partners and effective approaches to improving maternal and infant health outcomes, with a focus on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by health inequities.

Efforts led by trusted community-based organizations and strong community models of care are essential to improving maternal and child health outcomes. By engaging partners and supporting community-led solutions, the Wisconsin Partnership Program is working to help steer the state toward progress in improving health outcomes for Wisconsin’s mothers, infants, and families.

In 2021 and 2022 the Wisconsin Partnership Program awarded grants totaling $2.6 million to 18 projects that support a wide range of efforts across the state including: expanding community-based doula services; expanding early childhood programs to support mothers at risk for poor maternal and infant health outcomes; and strengthening postpartum care and family supports.

Additional Resources

The Wisconsin Partnership Program recognizes the power of interconnected programming and collaboration focused on the whole family and will give consideration to organizations offering a two-generation (2-Gen) approach — connecting to both the adult (mother/father/partner/caregiver) and infant — which helps build family well-being by addressing the needs of young children as well as the needs of the adults in their lives.

Past Recipients

COVID-19 Response Grant Program

The Wisconsin Partnership Program and its Oversight and Advisory Committee offered two COVID-19 Response Grant funding opportunities to address the impact of the pandemic on Wisconsin communities. The awards to community partners supported their efforts to address the initial and evolving health needs created by the pandemic; strengthen the resilience of Wisconsin families and communities; and address the pandemic’s impact on the social and emotional health of the Wisconsin’s adolescents.