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 window is now closed. Grantees for the current cycle will be notified by October 2024.
Complete this form to receive future communications about open grant opportunities available in your community.
Past Awardees
Charlotte:
- Camino Community Development Corporation (CCDC) will be launching a Food is Medicine initiative and securing an additional refrigeration unit for their Food Farmacy to increase capacity to serve fresh fruits and vegetables. Camino is a bilingual and multicultural health and social services center that predominantly serves under-resourced, Spanish-speaking immigrants.
- Champion House of Care: Funding will provide a refrigerated cooler, freezer unit, shelving and procurement policy for weekly meal delivery to three hotels, serving 5,000 people annually, in a high-priority zip code.
- Charlotte Gaymers Network: Supports an at-risk community that serves 4,300 people annually with Tobacco Free Policy implementation and a cardiac emergency response plan that includes a Community CPR Kit and funds for an onsite Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
- Yokefellow Ministry: Provide funding for a refrigeration cooler, freezer unit and procurement policy to support resources and services for 22,000 people annually in Statesville, NC.
Triangle: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill
- Boys & Girls Club of Wake County: Funding the purchase of cold storage and freezer units to increase capacity to serve healthy meals and providing educational resources to promote healthy nutrition and cardiovascular health.
- Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: Supporting the expansion of community health education curriculum to include Food as Medicine. The in-person and virtual educational series will educate community members about heart health, blood pressure and general health.
- LGBT Center of Raleigh: Funding the purchase of a self-monitoring blood pressure station and an Automated External Defibrillator (AED); supporting quarterly community health fairs.
Triad: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point
- Southside Discount Pharmacy will offer blood pressure monitoring, A1c testing, cholesterol screening and referral to in-house lifestyle management program to low income, Hispanic, Black, immigrant population.
- Winston-Salem State University- Mobile clinic will provide blood pressure monitoring, A1c testing, cholesterol screening at three public housing facilities in Guilford and Forsyth County, every other week for at least a year. Includes faculty researchers (NP, RN, MD, social work)
Wilmington:
- Good Shepherd Center will expand distribution of Healthy Food Boxes and their Grocery Giveaway Program for recently rehoused individuals and families. Good Shepherd Center feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless, and transitions over 150 homeless adults and children back to safe, permanent housing each year.
- The Healing Place of New Hanover County will construct and stock six mini-pantries in parks and neighborhoods in low income, high foot traffic areas. Funding will be used to purchase building materials and healthy, non-perishable foods to keep the pantries stocked for one year. These outdoor “mini-pantry” structures will ease access to nutrient rich foods, first aid, hygiene supplies, and Naloxone for vulnerable individuals in New Hanover County.
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
