North Carolina Community Health Subawards
Communities know their needs and often have ideas and solutions to improve the health of their community. The American Heart Association (AHA), with support from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Novant Health, is funding organizations to champion the implementation of ideas to promote heart health in specific communities across North Carolina. Community partners are eligible for subawards ranging from $2,500 - $10,000 to support heart healthy policies and environments. Organizations may include community-based organizations, churches, senior centers, community health centers, housing authorities, historically black colleges and universities, community colleges, city and county government, and others are welcome to apply.
The Summer/Fall 2024 cycle will fund projects in the Cape Fear, Charlotte, Triad, and Triangle regions.
Possible projects may include:
- Implement a community or clinic-based blood pressure screening, education, and referral program
- Increase capacity to provide fresh or frozen produce at a food pantry/bank (e.g. purchase of refrigerator, sink, shelving, etc);
- Establish a new food distribution site (e.g. pop-up market, mini-pantry, etc);
- Launch an EBT (SNAP & WIC) payment system at a Farmers Market, mobile market, or other healthy food outlet (except corner stores);
- Implement tobacco-free policy adoption at churches, worksites, or schools;
- Implement a cardiac emergency response plan, a written document that establishes the specific steps to reduce death from cardiac arrest in any setting - including access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) and Hands-Only CPR training
- Address maternal health and cardiovascular disease risk among pregnant women
- Other strategies to improve the health of your community.
The grant application period will be open from August 1 – 16, 2024. Check back for additional updates.
Complete this form to receive future communications about open grant opportunities available in your community.
Past Awardees
Charlotte:
- TruSolace Counseling and Wellness Center: Establishing a youth garden club with area school children; focusing on healthy eating options and establishing healthier life habits
- Community Health Services of Union County: Providing support for hypertensive patients in monitoring their numbers and supporting them in establishing managed care
- Zealous Empowering Nurturer, Inc.: Educating families on gardening techniques and utilizing grown produce to fight nutrition insecurity
- Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry: Funds support the purchase, assembly, and distribution of 300 prenatal boxes to food-insecure pregnant women throughout Cabarrus County.
- Embrace All Latino Voices: Support toward blood pressure self-management stations, hypertension equipment for loaner initiatives, translation services and health education for area residents.
- Grier Heights Presbyterian Church: Community-based blood pressure screening and referral program. In addition, there will be a commercial stove purchased to increase their capacity to provide food to congregants and community residents.
- Nourish Up/Loaves & Fishes: A new refrigerator or freezer unit at their new Nourish Up hub location.
- St. Paul Baptist Church: A new refrigerator or freezer unit for their on-site food pantry.
Triangle:
- Alliance Medical Ministry, Raleigh, NC: Supporting a community farm, nutrition classes, and health initiatives
- Healing with CAARE, Durham, NC: Maternal health education series and events including blood pressure and CPR awareness.
- LATIN-19, across the Triangle: Funding to support Community Health Workers, supplies, and blood pressure self-monitoring kits for a mobile clinic serving the Latino and Hispanic community.
Charlotte:
- The Heights Community Development Center: Generational Health in the Community, food security & hypertension management
- Care Ring: Heart Health Initiative, hypertension management
- Wingate University: Promoting Heart Health and Addressing Food Insecurity in Rural Eastern Union County, additional farmers market
- Grier Heights Presbyterian Church: Grier Heights Fresh Food Express, food security
- Uptown Farmers Market: Shuttle Service for Seniors from Affordable Housing Communities, transportation and food security
Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill):
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,School of Nursing Mobile Health Clinic: Addressing food insecurity and ASCVD risk assessment to improve health, self-management support and CVD outcomes
- Alliance Medical Ministry: Social Determinants of Health screening and food access
- Iglesia La Semilla : "La Alacena Comunitaria de Durham" (Durham's Community Pantry)
- Black Farmers Market:Double Bucks Program
- PORCH Hillsborough: Cold food storage to increase capacity for community hunger relief
Triad (Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem):
- Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services (GCDHHS)- Public Health Division and Greensboro Housing Coalition/Cottage Grove Collaborative: Establish SMBP and diabetes screening initiative
- Neighborhood Markets Inc.: Double Dollar SNAP program
- H.O.P.E. Neighborhood Market: SNAP and food security screenings
- Association of North Carolina Boards of Health: Establish SMBP and wellness initiative to reduce high blood pressure
- United Health Centers: Food security screenings and food pharmacy program to increase access to healthy foods utilizing an innovative approach
- Out of the Garden Project: Food security screening to increase access to healthy foods for low-income families
