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The California Endowment: the 10-year 'Building Healthy Communities' framing — Winning Grant Strategy

The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities (BHC) framework is a 10-year place-based strategy. Even as BHC formally concluded, the framing — community power building, policy change, and systems change — remains the lens for TCE funding. Position your work as building community power, not delivering services.

The Strategy

The California Endowment (TCE) shifted from a traditional health foundation to a 'health equity through community power' foundation. Their Building Healthy Communities initiative, while formally concluded, established the framework TCE still uses: fund community power building, policy advocacy, and systems change — not direct service delivery. If your proposal is primarily direct service ('we will provide health services to X people'), TCE is likely the wrong funder. If your proposal builds community power ('we will train 50 community health advocates who will lead local policy campaigns'), you're in TCE's lane. The power-building components TCE funds: (1) community organizing infrastructure (community health workers trained as organizers, not just service deliverers), (2) policy advocacy capacity (the ability to influence local…

The California Endowment: the 10-year 'Building Healthy Communities' framing

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