Strategic Community Grants Program
Strategic Community Grants Program
CURRENTLY CLOSED
The mission of United Way of Broome County is to drive change that will have a positive impact on the critical needs of the community by strategically leveraging the collective resources of community partners. United Way of Broome County does this by bringing together organizations, people, and resources to focus on the critical issues in Broome County with the goal of creating systemic change through collaborative, coordinated efforts.
The Strategic Community Grants Program is the combination of three grant programs:
1. Strategic Priorities Grant Program
2. Basic Needs Grant Program
3. Healthy Lifestyles Coalition (HLC) Grant Program
Strategic Priorities Grant Program
Three building blocks make-up United Way of Broome County’s Strategic Priorities that support efforts to drive systemic change in the community. We are committed to lasting solutions that build opportunity for all.
Health
Partners within the health priority work to ensure Broome County is an equitable, engaged, and empowered community that fosters healthy environments, healthy relationships, and healthy people through affordable and accessible support.
Education
Partners within the education priority work to ensure all children and youth in Broome County have an equitable opportunity to do well in school, graduate on time, and succeed in a career by providing the support needed to achieve their full potential.
Financial Stability
Partners within the Financial Stability priority work to ensure Broome County families can have the earnings, income, and assets to be financially stable and work towards economic mobility and self-sufficiency.
The RFP details each Strategic Priority that will drive systemic change in the community under the building blocks of Health, Education, and Financial Stability.
Basic Needs Grant Program
Meeting people’s basic needs and reducing poverty through targeted initiatives transform individuals’ lives, moving them from crisis to self-sufficiency. Ensuring basic needs such as food, shelter, and safety is the first step to identifying the complex, long-term issues individuals and families face. Together, we can work to provide basic needs and collaborative solutions to success.
The RFP details funding strategies to ensure residents of Broome County all have their basic needs met.
Healthy Lifestyles Coalition (HLC) Grant Program
The HLC and its partners understand and recognize that without engaged community members and agencies working together, real changes are not sustainable. The HLC seeks to reduce the prevalence of obesity in Broome County by empowering neighborhood residents to adopt healthy lifestyles and achieve positive health outcomes. Currently, the target area for the HLC are the North and East Sides of Binghamton.
Mission:
The HLC is a community collaboration that empowers neighborhood residents to adopt healthy lifestyles and achieve positive health outcomes.
Vision:
Engaged and empowered communities that foster healthy environments, healthy relationships, and healthy people.
Guiding Principles:
1. Physical environment is safe, clean, and promotes physical activity and socialization.
2. All residents feel connected regardless of geography or generation.
3. All residents are healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
Objectives:
1. Advocate for the adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors, through the creation of structural supports, environmental changes, and/or policy initiatives
2. Support the social, emotional, and mental health of all individuals
3. Increase access to and participation in physical activities for all individuals
4. Increase access to and consumption of healthy foods and beverages for all individuals
Goal:
To assist with reducing obesity and associated long-term risks for chronic disease in our community; through the promotion of targeted, multi-leveled interventions that improve habits and behaviors related to healthy lifestyles.
Please download the RFP for additional information.
