Community-Led Momentum Grants

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The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW) is offering grants for community-driven efforts carried out by eligible community Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) academic partnerships to implement innovative projects to advance health in Wisconsin. Areas of focus include:

• Public and community health improvement
• Health workforce education and development

Eligible public and community health proposals may include diverse project ideas, such as but not limited to:

• Implementing evidence-based practices, programs, and systems changes to address community-prioritized health needs, evaluating impact on key health indicators, and developing sustainability and expansion plans for continued impact on community health
• Actively applying existing knowledge through authentic engagement with impacted populations and active dissemination efforts such as convenings, social marketing campaigns, policy briefs, toolkit development, and white papers, among others, to inform current policies and practices that could produce measurable changes in key health indicators in the future to improve health outcomes
• Generating, analyzing, using, and disseminating high-quality findings across disciplines, including community-driven epidemiological studies, program evaluation, gap analysis, health systems studies, needs assessments, and resource allocation studies, among others, to develop and disseminate new knowledge to inform policy and practice changes

All applications must be submitted by collaborative teams of community and MCW academic partners committed to carrying out the proposed project together. Teams may consist of:

• Primary community partner organization: Wisconsin-based 501(c)3, 501(c)6, or Wisconsin government-based entity
• MCW Academic Partner: A full-time or full professional effort MCW faculty member with the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, and is required to contribute a minimum of 5% FTE to the project for the full award period
• Collaborator: MCW faculty, staff, or students as well as experts outside of MCW, including additional community partner organizations and contacts

For more information on the role of the MCW academic partner and collaborators, see the application instructions.

Up to $250,000 over a 24-month period

Links to additional guidance, application instructions, and the online application portal are available on the program website.

Submit the online letter of intent by October 26, 2026. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, with a deadline of February 22, 2027.

AHW encourages interested applicants to schedule a pre-application consultation to discuss project ideas.