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Current Funding Calendar
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The Sunflower Foundation has initiated a semi-annual Request for Proposals (RFP) funding cycle. The schedule for the current RFP (#08-102) is listed below.
- Thursday, November 29, 2007
RFP 08-102 issued
- Wednesday, January 9, 2008 (by 5:00 p.m.)
ALL RFP 08-102 Concept Papers and Proposals due
- by Friday, February 8, 2008
School Health and Safety Net Proposals invited
- by March 1, 2008
Capacity Building and Walking Trails Grants announced
- by Mid-March, 2008 (date announced when Proposals invited)
School Health and Safety Net Proposals due
- by May 1, 2008
School Health and Safety Net Grants announced
The Sunflower Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all Kansans through improved access to affordable and quality health care, promotion of healthy lifestyles and prevention efforts. We envision our role as a catalyst and, therefore, look to support programs that are innovative and have the potential to affect change at a systems level. But our interest is in more than just funding projects; we want the programs of our grantees to succeed and to have a positive impact on the health of Kansans.
We look at health in the broadest sense, thinking of health as an optimal state of well-being – physical, emotional and social. It is the ability of people and communities to reach their best potential – by improving access to health care, eliminating barriers to health and health care, creating healthy environments and by supporting personal responsibility for health.
- Serve those most in need of health care services
- Embrace a broad definition of health
- Focus on prevention, durability and measurability
- Be collaborative and complementary
- Serve as agents of systemic change
- Recognize the importance of research and development
- Be driven by humanitarian need
- Act as responsible stewards
- Leverage foundation assets
- Design programs that stimulate creativity
- Be proactive in seeking solutions
- Reflect a statewide presence
The Sunflower Foundation will fund projects that focus on improving health status or access to quality, affordable health care for Kansans.
We will not fund the following:
- Ongoing general operating expenses or existing deficits
- Endowments
- Fund-raising events
- Individual medical care
- Medical equipment
- Direct support of individuals
- Lobbying or political purposes
- Support of organizations that practice discrimination
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Funding Process and Priorities
The Sunflower Foundation provides opportunities for funding through multiple strategies, including requests for proposals, foundation initiatives and special projects.
While it is tempting to want to address many health needs in our state – to be "all things to all people" – we have learned that we will be most effective with our limited resources if we focus our grantmaking. After examining the state’s leading health issues, we have identified priority funding areas that fit our foundation’s origin, mission and interests. Our current program activities focus on the following areas:
Health Care Access – Projects that focus on improving access to health care for growing numbers of uninsured and underinsured, with an emphasis on community based health services, and projects that address health disparities;
Capacity Building – Projects that strengthen the organizational capacity of community-based health and human services organizations, with a focus on organizations that provide primary health care and primary prevention services;
Healthy Behaviors and Prevention – Projects that emphasize the importance of physical activity and healthy nutrition as a means to preventing obesity, especially in children and youth, and projects that seek to prevent or control tobacco use among Kansans, with an emphasis on children and youth; and
Special Projects – Projects that offer unique opportunities for partnerships, collaborations and leveraging.
