California Leighton Memorial Grant Award
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The Leighton Memorial Grant Award provides an unrestricted grant to a coalition or collaborative in a rural, frontier, or tribal area of California that has demonstrated success in improving emergency response and prehospital care with a focus on addressing inequity.
The award is intended to recognize multi-agency coalitions that:
- Serve a population/community that experiences racial health disparities or inequitable healthcare
- Are reflective and inclusive of the communities they serve
- Seek to impact broader systems change to emergency and prehospital care, such as organizational practice or policy changes
Eligibility requirements include:
- Location: Coalition/collaborative must work in a
rural, frontier or tribal area in California as defined
by:
- Rural - community/city with less than 50,000 residents
- Frontier - no more than 7 residents per square mile
- Tribal - one of the 109 federally recognized Indian tribes in California or in the process of petitioning for federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Coalition or collaborative: Must be an existing group of three or more organizations with at least one of the organizations physically located in the rural, frontier, or tribal area being served
- Population served: Population/community experiences racial health disparities or inequitable emergency and pre-hospital care
- Time frame: The work of the coalition/collaborative must have taken place within the last calendar year (2021)
A single $100,000 unrestricted gift is awarded each year.
A link to the online application is available on the program website.
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