Responsive Funding
The Healthy Lakewood Foundation (HLF) supports organizations working to advance health equity in Lakewood.
Responsive Funding enables a faster response to emerging community needs, time-sensitive opportunities, and crises. Requests may include discretionary or small grants, sponsorship requests, and emergency community funding.
Responsive Funding may build and support community engagement through activities, events, programming, and/or resource sharing. It can also advance our understanding of the needs of community members through innovative and creative projects.
We believe that the conditions of our community impact our health and well-being. We also believe that local groups have ideas and solutions to advance the health of our community. This funding seeks to support those creative ideas.
If you have never received HLF funding before, please email sharon@healthylakewoodfoundation.org. We are here to support you through this process; please reach out with any questions.
Grant amount
Grants range in size from $1,000 – $15,000 per year.
Grant duration
Grant funding will be available for up to one calendar year.
Questions?
More Information Coming Soon!
⇒ Lakewood-based and Lakewood-serving:
→ Non-profits
→ Fiscally sponsored groups and individuals (please reach out to an HLF staff member to learn more about fiscal sponsorships)
→ Eligible grant seeking organizations do not need to be headquartered in Lakewood. However, HLF supports programs and projects in which Lakewood residents or Lakewood-based institutions are either key beneficiaries or directly served. Additionally, Lakewood based groups are given top priority.
We do NOT fund:
→ Capital campaigns
→ Fundraising events
→ Lobbying
→ Scholarships
→ Religious organizations for evangelical or religious purposes
More information coming soon!
Support: Please email sharon@healthylakewoodfoundation.org with questions.
What to Expect
⇒ Submit HLF’s online grant application that helps us understand your organization, your work in Lakewood, and how funding would support you. We have designed the application to be as streamlined as possible while providing the information we need. If you have never received HLF funding before, please email sharon@healthylakewoodfoundation.org before applying.
⇒ Ask for assistance with the grant application process when needed.
⇒ HLF staff and committee review applications to identify those that are a strong fit for this grant cycle.
⇒ Interviews with selected candidates. We may invite you to a conversation with members of our Grants and Learning Committee. This is a chance for us to learn more about your work and for you to ask questions about partnering with HLF. An interview invitation—or lack of one—should not be interpreted as an indication of final funding decisions.
⇒ Funding decisions made by the HLF Board of Directors based on Committee recommendations.
⇒ Review and submit signed grant agreement in online portal in a timely manner.
⇒ Agree to submit a final grant report and/or discuss learning with HLF staff. You may be asked to share information on spending related to the awarded grant.
⇒ Act as a responsible steward of the funding as well as an ambassador to the community.
⇒ Provide feedback on the application, implementation, and reporting phases of the grant process to help improve future funding opportunities.
⇒ You may be asked to share ideas with other funded groups and identify areas of synergy and shared impact.
The Healthy Lakewood Foundation does not fund organizations that in their constitution, by-laws or practices discriminate against a person or group on the basis of age, race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or religious beliefs.