Hillman Innovations in Care Program: 2020 Request for Proposal (RFP)

Organization
Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation
Type
Foundation
Application Due Date
03-02-2020
Brief Description

ABOUT THE RITA & ALEX HILLMAN FOUNDATION
The mission of the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation is to improve the lives of patients, families and communities through nursing-driven innovation. To this end, the Foundation cultivates nurse leaders, supports nursing research, and disseminates new models of care that are critical to making the U.S. health care system more patient-centered, accessible, equitable, and affordable.

PURPOSE
The goal of the Hillman Innovations in Care Program is to advance leading edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and health care of vulnerable populations, including the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ people, the homeless, rural populations, and other groups that encounter barriers to accessing quality health care services.

We seek bold, evidence-based, patient- and family-centered approaches that challenge conventional strategies, improve health outcomes, lower costs, and show potential for national replicability.

AREAS OF INTEREST AND TYPES OF GRANTS
The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation specifically seeks proposals that address the health care needs of vulnerable populations in the following areas:

  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Care of the Older Adult
  • Chronic Illness Management

The Hillman Innovations in Care grants will consider support for two types of proposal:

  1. The adaptation of proven, well-established nursing-driven delivery models to new settings or patient populations.
    Example: A highly successful nurse home-visitation program targeting first-time mothers and their children is adapted to serve the needs of family caregivers and their elderly loved ones. After a promising preliminary pilot phase, the program is poised for expansion.
     
  2. The expansion of emerging nursing-driven delivery models that possess evidence suggesting a strong likelihood for broad scalability.
    Example: A Type 2 diabetes prevention program targeting low-income Hispanic families in Arizona shows promising outcomes after 5 years of operation. The project team that administers the program seeks to expand the intervention to similar communities in other states.

For real world examples of what we fund, please see the work of current grantees on the Hillman Innovations in Care Program webpage.