Grant Making | Con Alma

Key dates

2024 Grant Cycle

May 20, 2024 – grant application period opens

June 21, 2024 (11:59 pm) – grant application period closes

November 2024 – applicants notified of grant decision

December 2024 – grant agreements and awards disbursed

2025 Grant Cycle

Key Dates for 2025 will be released shortly

Statewide Grants

Priority Areas

Con Alma prioritizes efforts that will impact many individuals within a network, community, or communities – rather than focusing on 1:1 direct services to individuals.

Access – CAHF supports proposals that focus on access to health and healthcare as well as improving the health status and quality of life for the uninsured and medically underserved in New Mexico.
Culturally Appropriate Services – CAHF supports efforts that aim to reduce health disparities, particularly for rural and tribal communities, immigrant families, and people of color. We support traditional and community-based approaches to health and efforts that support the hardest to reach individuals and communities in New Mexico.
Evaluation/Research – CAHF supports new solutions to old problems and efforts that have the courage to risk failure. This may include data analysis, support of policy and advocacy, and/or the creation of new knowledge.
Evaluation/Research – CAHF supports new solutions to old problems and efforts that have the courage to risk failure. This may include data analysis, support of policy and advocacy, and/or the creation of new knowledge.
Health Promotion – CAHF supports efforts that define health broadly and emphasize education, prevention, and personal empowerment.
Policy – CAHF supports consumer participation in health policy formation and advocacy efforts to improve the health and well-being of people who live in New Mexico.
Workforce Development – CAHF supports the development of professionals who reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in New Mexico. This includes individuals who are participating in traditional as well as non-traditional training and educational opportunities.

Eligibility

Eligibility Criteria

Grants are awarded to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations under Section 501(c)(3) Code of the Internal Revenue Service or to Fiscal Sponsors with a 501(c)(3) designation.
This opportunity is open to all eligible applicants (based on the guidelines outlined), including current and past grant recipients of Con Alma Health Foundation.
Work funded by the grant must benefit people living in New Mexico.
Priority communities in New Mexico:
- Communities historically marginalized because of race, language, disabilities, gender, sexual orientation, or spiritual beliefs
- Immigrant, rural, and border communities
- Low-income and economically under-resourced communities
- People suffering from chronic health conditions and trauma-related health inequities
- People who are uninsured, underinsured, and/or medically underserved
The foundation funds requests that have the potential to benefit many members in a system, network, or community (vs. individual needs). Small, grassroots, and medium-sized organizations are especially encouraged to apply.*

* Based on the organization’s annual operating budget, we define organization size as: small (< $250,000), medium ($250,001 - $1.5 million), and large (> $1.5 million).

What We Don’t Fund

Exclusions/Restrictions

Political campaigns, political lobbying, or other partisan activities prohibited by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
Support to individuals, scholarships, or fellowships
Capital or endowment campaigns, annual fundraising campaigns, event sponsorships, debt liquidation, or clinical research
Grants to organizations that discriminate based on race, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, disability, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity
Grants made for religious purposes
Grants made for religious purposes
Grants for construction, renovation, or repairs

Grant Sizes

Request Amounts

Applicants may request $15,000, $20,000 or $25,000, $30,000 for one year of support.

How Proposals Will be Reviewed

Con Alma’s review process consists of three stages.

Stage 1: A staff review for completeness and eligibility

Stage 2: A community review committee compromised of individuals from around the state rates each application based on its strengths and views is from a technical sense. The Community Reviewers recommend top applications to

Stage 3: The CAHF Grant Making Committee looks deeper into the alignment of the application with the Foundation’s values and grantmaking goals and reviews all applications that have forward

The GMC recommends a slate of applications for approval to the Board of Trustees for final ratification.

Strong proposals communicate:

A sense of urgency. The proposed work is timely and necessary in the respective community or communities in which the work will take place.
Health needs and gaps. The proposed work addresses challenges that disproportionately impact historically underserved populations in New Mexico (e.g., low-income, uninsured, underinsured, rural, immigrants, tribal, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, elders and seniors, etc).
Clear goals and objectives. The proposed work has realistic outcomes, is results oriented, and accomplishment is feasible during the 12-month grant period.
Community led solutions. The proposed work includes community voices and community-led solutions and is not solely a top-down approach.
A focus on systems change. The application considers root causes within systems and institutions that inhibit success for some communities or individuals. Proposed solutions incorporate an equity and social justice lens to ensure New Mexico’s diverse communities have equitable opportunities to lead healthy lives.

Use of Funds / Allowable Costs

The Foundation will award grants of up to $30,000.
Funds may be used for personnel (staffing/benefits), professional services (contractors, evaluators), operational expenses (supplies, printing, postage, copying, communications), meetings and travel (venue rental, training costs), and other direct and indirect expenses.
Purchases of property or equipment are limited to $5,000 per item.

Application Information

Required Attachments

Proposal Budget. All applicants are required to complete the budget form in the CAHF online grant portal. See the FAQs for more detail on what information to prepare. 
Organizational Budget. All applicants are required to upload a copy of the organization’s general operating budget, showing all funding sources and major expense categories, for the most current fiscal year (if fiscal year ends on June 30th, use upcoming fiscal year budget).
Tribal Support Letter. Organizations working directly with sovereign nations, pueblos, or tribal communities or within their jurisdictions must upload a letter of support from a community-based tribal group or from the tribe(s)/nation(s) within which they will be working as an attachment to the application. ***

*** If additional time is needed to secure the required documentation, follow these steps:

At the time of application submission, upload a note/letter noting the reason for the delay.
If required documents are not uploaded by the agreed upon extension due date, the application will not be considered.

How to Apply

CAHF online grant portal. See the FAQs for more detail on what information to prepare.CAH

Log into CAHF Grant Portal
On the home screen, find the “My Applications” section and click on “Funding Opportunities.” If you have already started an application you will find it in the “In Progress” list.
Applicants new to Con Alma must first register and create an organizational profile. You may find instructional videos for this process here.

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Questions:

System Questions email: sysadmin@conalma.org

Program Questions email: grants@conalma.org