Below are funding opportunities previously featured in our WAFCA E-News. All opportunities will remain posted until the application due date expires. 

 

Advancing Healthier Wisconsin Opens Seed Grant Opportunity. The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment is offering seed grants up to $50,000 for projects that lay the groundwork for future, larger endeavors to address a health need or fill a gap in knowledge or practice affecting the health of people and communities in the state.

Rural Health Transformation Program Opportunities: Note that applicants may apply to multiple Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) funding opportunities for which their organizations are eligible.

- Rural Technology Transformation Fund: Allocations to Improve Health Services in Rural Wisconsin. RHTP will award $209 million over five years in technology transformation grants to bolster the state’s capacity to improve care in rural communities via technological innovation. In general, community-based organizations are ineligible for these grants, but may be able to partner with health systems, FQHCs or counties to derive some collective benefit. 

- Community Health Workers Grants: Strengthening the Rural Health Workforce in Wisconsin. DHS seeks to strengthen the Wisconsin rural health workforce by developing and expanding high-quality and impactful community health worker (CHW) programs in clinical and community settings. This could include hiring and supporting CHWS to carry out services in rural areas, training CHWs on core competencies and standards, and/or building organizational capacity to sustain quality CHW service provision.

- Workforce Innovation Grant: Healthcare Employment, Access, and Rural Transformation Program. This grant program will award up to $10 million across non-profit organizations and government entities that develop transformational solutions to the workforce challenges affecting the quality and availability of rural communities in Wisconsin. Read the full Workforce Innovation Grant Program Announcement here.

- Innovating Healthcare Through Partnership Grants: Coordinating Care Across Wisconsin. This five-year grant funding opportunity is intended to catalyze innovative healthcare service models through partnerships across communities, systems, and sectors in rural Wisconsin. DHS aims to address points in a care continuum where community members are most likely to experience barriers to health-related services or fall out of care—and to directly address fragmented systems of care.

Training Grants and Programs Available to Boost Health Care Workforce. Strengthening the health care workforce is a key priority for Wisconsin, and the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has training grants and programs available to help organizations address employment challenges. Funding is available now through Wisconsin Fast Forward to help employers launch an apprenticeship or alternative employee training program. 

  • DWD suggests first learning more about how apprenticeship programs helped UW Health, SSM Health, Western Wisconsin Health, and Children's Wisconsin address skills gaps in their workforce while reducing financial and operational barriers.
  • Then, connect with DWD via email ([email protected]) to start or expand Wisconsin Apprenticeship programs at your organization and to learn more about training grant opportunities.
Learning Event Support. Advancing Healthier Wisconsin’s Learning Event Support opportunity aims to improve the health of the people of our state by advancing Wisconsin’s health workforce to be increasingly more accessible, equipped, and representative to improve health for all Wisconsin residents. Funding will support Wisconsin-based learning events that build knowledge, skills, and networks among current Wisconsin-based health professionals and the next generation of leaders to explore new ideas that can be applied to their work to improve health in Wisconsin communities.