At the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW), we are driven by a vision for a healthier Wisconsin. As Wisconsin’s largest health improvement philanthropy, AHW seeks to propel the most promising work and ideas to improve health and advance health equity in Wisconsin today, and for generations to come. We invest in high-impact work, connect people and resources across sectors and communities, and influence how ideas become actionable to inform programs, policies, and practices. Our goal is to accelerate innovation, collaboration, and impact in response to research- and community-identified needs.
The Community-Led Seed Grants by AHW support partnerships between communities and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) to address Wisconsin’s leading health challenges and advance health equity. These grants encourage the design of new strategies, testing of innovative ideas, and fostering of greater collaboration for future health improvement endeavors. Proposals can request up to $50,000 for 12-month projects and may focus on designing and testing community-based health interventions, developing or expanding partnerships, data gathering and analysis, enhancing existing projects with innovative components, and sharing learnings to drive community action.