Grant Opportunities

PrimeWest Health Community Reinvestment Grants

Background

PrimeWest Health established our Community Reinvestment Program to stimulate local efforts and innovations that improve individual PrimeWest Health member health care experience and member population health, advance health equity, and reduce unnecessary health care spending. PrimeWest Health is a county government organization jointly owned by 24 counties and, as such, our resources belong to the counties and communities we serve. Therefore, PrimeWest Health uses our financial, technical, and human resources to go above and beyond providing basic health plan services for our members.

For a summary of past grant funding, please view the PrimeWest Health Local Community Reinvestment Summary.

Types of Acceptable Grants

PrimeWest Health only funds capital and service project grants. PrimeWest Health does not fund grants for research or for supporting organizations’ ongoing operations or supplanting existing financial resources that support organizations’ operations. Grants are only awarded for health and human services projects that do the following:

  • Solely or primarily target, serve, or benefit PrimeWest Health members; or
  • Significantly (quantifiably) impact the health and social well-being of PrimeWest Health members in the region to be served by the grant if our members are not the sole or primary target population or beneficiaries of the project.

Eligible Grant Applicants

Eligible applicants include not-for-profit, for-profit, city, township, county, district government (including government joint powers entities), Tribal entities, health care and human (social) services providers, and community-based organizations properly licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise approved to conduct business in the State of Minnesota and not excluded from Medicare participation.

Next Steps in Applying for Community Reinvestment Program Grants

If the organization and prospective grant project satisfies the above criteria, the organization can submit a Letter of Inquiry to PrimeWest Health about the project. The letter should be no longer than two pages and must include the following information:

  1. A summary of the project that includes the following:
    1. A brief description of the applicant organization(s)
    2. The PrimeWest Health service area counties served by the project
    3. What the project is trying to accomplish (project goal) and how the project will achieve the goal(s), including how the project solely or primarily targets, serves, and/or benefits PrimeWest Health members or significantly impacts the health and social well-being of PrimeWest Health members in the region to be served by the grant if our members are not the sole or primary target population of the project
  2. Total cost of the project and the grant dollar amount requested
  3. Name, title, and contact information (street address, email address, and phone number) of the inquiring organization’s contact person

Submit your Letter of Inquiry via email to Kathy Hungness, PrimeWest Health Director of Administrative Services, at k.hungness@primewest.org.

PrimeWest Health will review the Letter of Inquiry to determine whether to invite the inquiring organization to submit a full proposal. If invited, PrimeWest Health will provide the organization with an application packet that includes proposal writing instructions. PrimeWest Health requires successful grant applicants to provide periodic progress reports and/or supporting grant expenditure documentation in a manner prescribed by PrimeWest Health. PrimeWest Health reserves the right to grant Community Reinvestment Program funds solely at its own discretion based on, but not limited to, the merits of the proposal, availability of funding, and the quality of any competing proposals. PrimeWest Health does not promise or guarantee that your proposal will be funded.


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