Grant Details​

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FUNDING AMOUNT: Awards range in size from $100K - $150K for one year grants, or $300K - $1M for multi-year grants. The maximum grant request amount per application is $1M.

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APPLICANTS: Collaboratives can be in any stage of development, from the early introduction of potential partners, to fully functioning, multi-disciplinary groups. Applications that include (or demonstrate strong potential to include) involvement from the following will be prioritized:

 

• local emergency response agencies;

• community organizations or representatives;

• Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (LEMSA); and/or

• hospital/trauma centers.

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SCOPE OF WORK: The scope of work proposed can be narrow and deep - focusing on specific components of the emergency and prehospital care system, or broad and wide across the landscape - as long as a collaborative is committed to engaging local community members, improving racial equity within the system, and considers local data. The following are examples (not requirements) of activities a collaborative could pursue: 

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• assess the current system and highlight any racial disparities or biases

• create a shared vision, engaging a range of stakeholders to reflect on current realities and consider what communities want, need, the barriers, and opportunities

• share processes, progress, and outcomes with key regional and state agencies to support the integration, spread, and sustainability of innovations achieved 

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REPORTING REQUIREMENTS: Progress report meetings with CARESTAR will be held approximately every six months, and larger gatherings with other grantees will occur 1-2x per year. 

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Complete details about the Transformations & Innovations Grants Program are available for download here.

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Leighton Honorees

Every year, in memory of Jeff Leighton, a former CARESTAR advisor, the Foundation designates a portion of its TII grantmaking funds to support collaboratives serving rural, frontier, or tribal areas in California. The aim is to provide these regions, which encounter distinctive and challenging obstacles, with critical funds to rethink and coordinate emergency and prehospital care to better align with the needs of their local communities. With expertise in non-profit foundation development, operations, finance, and investment management, Jeff Leighton helped establish the CARESTAR Foundation in 2018. His illness and subsequent passing during this period led the board of directors to want to honor and recognize Leighton’s outstanding contributions to CARESTAR and strengthen the rural areas of California Jeff loved so much.