To initiate and support innovative and forward-looking health-related projects aimed at improving physical and social well-being and educational attainment.
The Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) provides financial grants to support organizations and projects that strive to improve community health in Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. It emphasizes opportunities for health to be accessible to everyone, focusing on specific priority areas to enhance community health effectively. TCI supports diverse funding mechanisms, including first-dollar, programmatic, or seed funding, to meet applicants at different stages of their work and evolution. The funding also targets the expansion of successful approaches to new populations or geographic areas and encourages capacity building that aligns with TCI’s priorities. A crucial element of TCI’s funding includes addressing the social determinants of health and structural determinants like governing processes, economic and social policies, and housing, to mitigate root causes of health inequities.