Innovations to Advance Wisconsin's Health Workforce Grants

Tracy Wilson
414.955.4364
trwilson@mcw.edu

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment provides grants for collaborations to develop innovative and sustainable programs, tools, and resources to advance Wisconsin's current and future health research, healthcare, and community health improvement workforce.

Funded projects will:

• Build, develop, and/or adapt a resource to support development of Wisconsin's health workforce that delivers content in actionable formats that incorporate best practices in adult learning and develop sustainability, promotion, and evaluation plans for the resource
• Test and pilot the resource and evaluation approach and refine the resource based on initial outcomes to ensure it meets the identified need, serves to advance the desired health workforce in Wisconsin, and is accessible to reach the desired sectors and fields of the health workforce where they are and when support is needed
• Institutionalize the resulting resource and its associated sustainability, promotion, and evaluation plans into an existing system to support ongoing accessibility, promotion, and evaluation of impact on Wisconsin's health workforce
• Commit to long-term evaluation of the impact of the resource to demonstrate workforce advancements and impact on Wisconsin's health beyond the project period

Eligible applicants are community-led collaboration projects and Medical College of Wisconsin-led collaboration projects. Proposals must be submitted jointly by a project team of individuals and organizations collectively bringing the necessary experience, influence, and expertise to carry out the proposed project.

Eligible community organizations must be Wisconsin-based, non-profit, IRS tax exempt 501(c)3 or government organizations including, but not limited to:

• Health, social service, and other community-based organizations
• Faith-based organizations
• State and local governments
• Scientific or professional associations, universities, and schools
• Voluntary associations, foundations, civic, and citizen groups
• Federally-recognized Indian Tribal governments, Tribes, and Tribal organizations

Award ceiling: $500,000
Project period: 2-3 years
Estimated number of awards: 7
Estimated total program funding: $1,500,000

A link to the application instructions is available on the program website.

Submit the online letter of intent form by November 16, 2020. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full application, with a deadline of March 15, 2021.