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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 that 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.
  • Impact the broad geographic and cultural variety of our state.
  • Support coordinated, collective efforts over fragmented or duplicative ones.

Strategic Priorities

  • Increase preventive care, with a special focus on:
    • Maternal health, including prenatal, postpartum and mental health care
    • Infant and child wellness
    • Cervical and colorectal cancer screenings
    • Screenings for sexually transmitted infections, especially HIV and syphilis
    • Diabetes management and support
    • Hypertension management and support
  • Enhance Medicaid healthcare providers’ resources and skills to:
    • Improve targeted health outcomes
    • Integrate physical and behavioral healthcare
    • Expand access to health care
  • Address social drivers of health related to:
    • Food insecurity and nutrition
    • Job training and placement
    • Safe, affordable housing

Funding Recipient Criteria

Requirements

  • Alignment 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 programs aligned with our strategic priorities of maternal and child health, preventive care, social drivers of health, and Medicaid provider capabilities. 

Investment Grants

  • 2026 Investment Grants will fund programs and/or services that impact maternal and child health
  • Up to $50,000 per award

Impact Grants

  • One-time investments that build capacity or enhance service, in alignment with our strategic priorities
  • Up to $2,000 per award
  • Applications accepted on a rolling basis; awarded quarterly

Louisiana Healthcare Connections is committed to supporting our community through initiatives that expand access to care, increase preventive services, and improve health outcomes.

We provide resource tabling to share information, educational materials, and connections for current and potential Medicaid enrollees.

Please submit your resource‑tabling, event, or sponsorship request, including a flyer or sponsor/exhibitor brochure for consideration.

Requests must be submitted at least 60 days in advance and are reviewed during our monthly evaluation cycle.

Send Us Your Request

Louisiana Healthcare Connections may provide 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. Healthcare providers must follow Louisiana Medicaid state marketing regulations.

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