CEED@Chicago's Legacy Projects
The 18 CEEDs across the U.S. were established to be a resource for mentoring communities in processes of community mobilization, community-based participatory research, and program development and evaluation. Through the Legacy Projects mini-grant program, CEEDs provide pilot funding, support, training, and guidance to community based organizations to encourage them to initiate or enhance work towards the elimination of health disparities. Community organizations may apply for Legacy Project funding to any CEED through a competitive application process. The focus of proposed projects must match the CEED's target population and health priorities. While community organizations may apply to more than one CEED for funding, they may only accept one award. Further information about CEEDs across the country is available at: www.cdc.gov/reach .
CEED@Chicago funds Legacy Projects to assist organizations to initiate or expand activities that contribute to community-level system change that will reduce health disparities and ultimately reduce the burden of type 2 diabetes and CVD among African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos. Applicants may propose to transfer best or promising practices or developing new, innovative projects. (Best practices are programs and activities shown to have a positive outcome or result based on evaluation and research. Promising practices are those activities that show the potential to effectively impact the selected issue.)
CEED@Chicago is currently implementing its first round of Legacy Projects awards. A request for proposal will be disseminated in May 2009. The due date for proposals is June 30, 2009 . Funding for proposals is contingent upon funding from the CDC.
Recipients of the first round of CEED@Chicago Legacy Project grants and the goals of their projects are:
• Frida Kahlo Community Organization, Chicago , IL
Provide accessible and high quality bilingual diabetes prevention and management information to Latino families which enable them to live healthy and productive lives .
• Latino Organization of the Southwest, Chicago, IL
Provide accessible, sustainable opportunities for physical activity by establishing volunteer-led, no cost parent walking clubs at local elementary schools and e stablish a new community norm for physical activity participation through the creation of the clubs.
• Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center , Chicago , IL
B ring together three community partners to prevent and control Type 2 diabetes among Latinos living in the Logan Square community of Chicago .
Legacy Projects Mini-Grants and Opportunities for Funding
The 18 CEEDs across the U.S. were established to be a resource for mentoring communities in processes of community mobilization, community-based participatory research, and program development and evaluation. Through the Legacy Projects mini-grant program, CEEDs provide pilot funding, support, training, and guidance to community based organizations to encourage them to initiate or enhance work towards the elimination of health disparities. Community organizations may apply for Legacy Project funding to any CEED through a competitive application process. The focus of proposed projects must match the CEED's target population and health priorities. While community organizations may apply to more than one CEED for funding, they may only accept one award. Further information about CEEDs across the country is available at: www.cdc.gov/reach .
CEED@Chicago funds Legacy Projects to assist organizations to initiate or expand activities that contribute to community-level system change that will reduce health disparities and ultimately reduce the burden of diabetes and CVD among African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos. Applicants may propose to transfer best or promising practices or developing new, innovative projects. (Best practices are programs and activities shown to have a positive outcome or result based on evaluation and research. Promising practices are those activities that show the potential to effectively impact the selected issue.)
Contingent on available funding, CEED@Chicago will seek proposals from throughout the Chicago metropolitan statistical area and beyond. Funding will be for fiscal year 2010 beginning approximately October 1, 2009 and ending on September 29, 2010 .
Projects must be connected to efforts to make community system change such as changing the norms, policies or practices of organizations; community institutions such as schools, churches, health care systems, and businesses; and community residents. All projects must be appropriate for the communities they serve, i.e., address the language and culture of the population being served. They must have culturally appropriate strategies , health literacy , and leadership development as elements.
- Culturally appropriate strategies (1) address linguistic and cultural factors and barriers influencing health; (2) improve systems or service delivery models; or (3) improve the effectiveness of interventions to improve health in ethnically diverse communities.
- Health literacy strategies increase the knowledge, skills, and systems within organizations to better communicate and provide culturally relevant, linguistically aligned information and choices to residents about healthy eating and physical activity.
- Leadership development increases the capacity of residents to effect desired changes in their community.
Legacy Project funds may be used for, but are not limited to , the following
• Initiate or expand appropriate community-based or systems-level activities
• Conduct a community needs assessment, including community asset mapping
• Development or use of culturally appropriate assessment strategies or methodologies to address diabetes and CVD
• Assess health impact
• Provide training or enhance skills
• Transfer best or promising practices (b est practices : programs and activities that have shown positive outcomes or results, based on evaluation and research; p romising practices : activities that have the potential to effectively impact diabetes and/or CVD) addressing diabetes and/or CVD, such as
• Healthy eating projects that address obesity and poor nutrition by increasing the access, availability/supply, or consumer demand for healthy food choices that may reduce obesity and chronic diseases. For example, projects may impact the current food system by creating alternative methods for low-income populations to acquire healthy food or by social marketing and health literacy strategies to promote healthy eating practices.
• Physical activity projects that address obesity by increasing opportunities for physical activity. These projects may include providing new resources and/or increasing access to and availability of existing resources. They also may include increasing the cultural acceptability and environmental sustainability of physical activity in the community
To be eligible, applicants must be an active coalition or partnership of three or more local organizations with a history of working together for at least one year. A least one partner must have IRS 501(c) 3 status and be able to accept funds. This lead agency must have access to the Internet and e-mail. At least one organization of the partnership must be located in the community being served by the grant. Finally, at least one partner organization located in the community must be capable of administering the funds.
The following organizations are ineligible to apply for Legacy Project grants:
• REACH US Action Community (AC) or CEED grantees, and
• Organizations/partners located within the target areas of current Chicago REACH Action Communities (AC) grantees: North Lawndale, South Lawndale, South Chicago, South Deering, Hegewisch, East Side , and Chicago Lawn
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