3rd Funding Cycle Funded Projects
The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program provided funding awards totaling $7,037,486 for 29 community - academic partnerships in two categories:
Development Awards - designed to support a range of health promotion or health-related prevention project ideas, including, but not limited to: planning or evaluation activities of a project or partnership, pilot project feasibility testing or implementation of a project, limited to up to $50,000 per award. The following 15 Development proposals received funding awards totaling $742,681.
Impact Awards - designed to support a range of project ideas, including but not limited to: implementation of a health promotion or health-related prevention project, program and / or partnership with significant impact; or, implementation of capacity building strategies that will have significant impact on a health-related organization, sector, or system, limited to up to $450,000 per award. The following 14 Impact proposals received funding awards totaling $6,294,805.
The response generated by this 3rd Request for Proposals (RFP) was impressive, with over 300 community and Medical College of Wisconsin partners submitting 91 Notices of Intent intended to impact residents throughout Wisconsin communities (view full report). Of these, 76 full proposals met technical eligibility requirements and underwent competitive merit review by a National Review Panel and the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health (view full report). The projects awarded funding are listed below in alphabetical order. For additional information on any of HWPP's funded projects, please complete the Information Request form.
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Development Awards
Changing the Culture of Risky Drinking Behavior
Community Readiness for LGBT Intimate Partner Violence Support Services
Determining the Status of Wisconsin School Health
Development of a Hispanic Health Patient Navigator
F4Kids = A Healthier Future
Farm to Fork: Cultivating Grassroots Capacity to Transform Food Access
Milwaukee Alliance for Sexual Health
Milwaukee County Health Care Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Consortium
Milwaukee Food & Fitness Initiative
Mi salud - Mi vida: Health Promoter Model for Diabetes Self-Management
NEW Leadership Wisconsin: Building Leadership Capacity to Reduce Health Disparities
Public Health Workforce Development: A Call to Action
Quality Home Care
The Journey of HOPE
Using Social Networks to Increase HIV Testing in Vulnerable Populations
Impact Awards
Building A Recovery-Driven Continuum of Behavioral Health Care
Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM)
Early Childhood Integrated Database System (ECIDS): Implementation and Evaluation
Eat Smart
Faith-based African American Health Network (FAAHN)
Healthy Latino Families: A Nutrition/Exercise Program to Reduce Obesity
Lakeshore Lodge
Partnerships to Connect Schools, Health, and Public Health Insurance
PEARLS for Teen Girls High Risk Intervention
Project Heart: Healthy Empowerment to Access Resources Together
Project Respect
Stop Abuse and Neglect of Elders: Increasing Capacity to Respond
TAP (Targeting Adolescent Problems): Substance Abuse Crisis Hotline and Program
Waukesha Smiles: Dental Outreach to Low-Income Waukesha Children