The Colorado Springs Health Foundation aims to improve health outcomes by focusing on a population health framework. This includes addressing clinical care, health behaviors, social and economic determinants, and the physical environment.
The grant program aims to foster collaboration among multiple organizations, perspectives, and disciplines to tackle complex problems that demand an integrated and resource-intensive approach. It encourages applying principles of collective impact to achieve significant, measurable progress. Competitive applicants will tightly align their collaboration's purpose with the funder's focus areas, address key community health challenges through diverse efforts, contribute resources, employ evidence-based practices, and possess transformative potential. The focus areas include expanding access to healthcare, preventing suicide and trauma, and cultivating healthy environments through increased physical activity, access to healthy food, and affordable housing solutions.