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Grants, Sponsorships & Giving

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In serving our organizations’ mission – transforming Louisiana’s health, one person at a time – Louisiana Healthcare Connections depends on community partners who share our vision for the health of all. We invest in strategic initiatives to expand access to healthcare, increase preventive care, and improve health outcomes.

Guiding Principles

  • Prioritize initiatives providing or enhancing direct service to individuals.
  • Focus on organizations serving Louisiana’s Medicaid population.
  • Reach the full geographic and cultural variety of our state.
  • Value coordinated, collective efforts over fragmented or duplicative ones.

Strategic Priorities

  • Increase preventive care, with a special focus on:
    • Prenatal and postpartum care
    • Cervical and colorectal cancer screenings
    • Screenings for sexually transmitted infections, especially HIV and syphilis
    • Diabetes management and support
    • Hypertension management and support
    • Pediatric fluoride varnish
  • Enhance Medicaid healthcare providers’ resources and skills to:
    • Improve targeted health outcomes
    • Integrate physical and behavioral healthcare
    • Expand access to health care
  • Address social determinants of health related to:
    • Food insecurity and nutrition
    • Job training and placement
    • The remediation of health-harming environmental factors

Funding Recipient Criteria

Requirements

  • Aligned with our mission, guiding principles, and strategic priorities
  • Directly serving Medicaid recipients within Louisiana
  • In good standing with the Louisiana Secretary of State and Internal Revenue Service
  • Community organizations must be registered as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, 501(c)(19) Veterans group, or 509(a)(1) church, school or hospital.
  • Healthcare providers must be participating in our network

Exclusions

  • Individuals, for-profit corporations, or other entities without a 501(c)(3 or 19) or 509(a)(1) designation
  • Grant proposals with administrative costs greater than 10%
  • Efforts related to elections or public policy advocacy 
  • Organizations excluded from the Louisiana Medicaid program 
  • Entities that discriminate based on any protected class of individuals

Approval and Discretion

All grants, sponsorships and events require the approval of the Louisiana Department of Health. As a result, sponsorship and donation requests made fewer than 30 days in advance may not be considered.

This strategy guides our community investments but cannot anticipate every scenario. Funds are limited and all funding decisions are at Louisiana Healthcare Connections’ discretion based on these and other factors, to best serve our mission and purpose.

Questions

Please direct questions about funding opportunities and donations to: CommunityGrants@LouisianaHealthConnect.com. Requests for funding must be made via the links below, and will not be considered if sent to this email address. 

How to Request Funding

Each year, we make strategic investments through Community Health Grants to nonprofit organizations' programs aligned with our strategic priorities of preventive care, social drivers of health, and Medicaid provider capabilities. 

Investment Grants

  • Up to $50,000 for programs and/or services that impact our strategic priorities
  • Awarded annually

Impact Grants

  • Up to $2,000 for one-time investments that build capacity or enhance service, in alignment with our strategic priorities
  • Awarded quarterly

Event Sponsorship and Funding Are Currently Closed

While we have reached our current event sponsorship and funding capacity, we remain deeply committed to supporting our community.

Our team is still available to assist through our Resource Tabling efforts, offering helpful information, educational materials, and meaningful connections to further your work. 

Typically, a requesting organization submits a sponsor / exhibitor brochure for consideration.

  • Monthly review and selection cycle
  • Requests must be submitted 60 days in advance
Send Us Your Request

Promotional items (e.g., bags, cups, hand sanitizer, masks, pens), food, beverages, or other items in support of programs or events that align with our investment priorities.

  • Monthly review and selection cycle
  • Requests must be submitted 30 days in advance
Send Us Your Request