Community Benefit Grants
Expectations and Procedures

Rationale

The Community Benefit program at Reid is designed to support specific efforts and programs of established not-for-profit groups or agencies.  Community Benefit is defined as programs or activities that provide treatment and/or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs.

Guidelines

Grant requests must meet at least one of the following guidelines:

    1. Be consistent with Reid’s community-based mission and philosophy
    2. Respond to the health care needs of the underserved or vulnerable populations
    3. Respond to public health needs
    4. Focus on prevention and/or health promotion
    5. Demonstrate collaboration with other community agencies or organizations
    6. Assist in containing community health care costs
    7. Address identified health care needs in the community (refer to 2007 Needs Assessment results posted on Reid’s web site)
    8. Involve education or programming that improves overall community health

Implementation

Grant applications are due:

1st quarter -- January 1 to March 10
2nd quarter -- March 11 to June 16
3rd quarter -- June 17 to October 15
4th quarter -- October 16 to November 10

  1. Grant requests must be submitted via the on-line application that can be obtained by e-mailing Karen Everett.  Only electronic submission of grant requests by word processing will be accepted for consideration.
  2. The Community Benefit Committee of the Board of Directors will make the final decision.  All applicants will be notified of the Board’s decision.
  3. All requests for 2008 must be submitted by November 10, 2008.
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