Minnesota Live Well at Home Grants
Miranda Unruh
miranda.unruh@state.mn.us
Live Well at Home Grants offer funding to develop and/or provide services to allow for older Minnesotans to live in the community. Funded projects will improve capacity to develop, strengthen, and integrate programs; maintain home and community-based services for individuals' age 65 and older and at risk of long-term nursing home use and/or spending down into medical assistance; and strengthen services for the caregiver support network.
Awards will be made in 3 categories.
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Capital and renovation requests:
- New construction
- Renovation
- Retrofitting
- Home modification
- Transportation
- Technology
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Long-term services and supports development
requests:
- Caregiving
- Community supports, with particular interest in models that serve rural, tribal, and other communities
- Healthy aging
- Homeless support services
- Transportation
- Core home and community-based services: Covering fixed costs for small nonprofit providers offering community services and additional services such as, but not limited to: transportation, home modification, chore, and companionship
Applicants should involve at least 2 of the following groups as partners in their proposal:
- ElderCare Development Partnership contacts
- Area Agencies on Aging
- County public health department
- Nursing, human, or social service organization
- Healthcare organization
- Semi-formal or other service provider
- Local nonprofit or for-profit business
Eligible applicants are nonprofits, for-profit organizations, governmental units, and Tribal Nations in Minnesota working to improve community-based, affordable long-term care for older adults and supporting infrastructure that allows older adults to remain at home.
Award ceiling: $350,000
Estimated total program funding:
$8,000,000
There is a dollar-for-dollar matching funds requirement.
Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.
For complete information about funding programs, including your
application status, please contact funders directly. Summaries are provided
for your convenience only. RHIhub does not take part in application processes
or monitor application status.