<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Sharing</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:small"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#757b80"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Mel Downey-Piper</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Mel.Downey-Piper@heart.org" target="_blank">Mel.Downey-Piper@heart.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:00 PM<br>Subject: American Heart Association mini-grants open - deadline Nov 5 ($2,500-$10,000)<br>To: Mel Downey-Piper <<a href="mailto:Mel.Downey-Piper@heart.org" target="_blank">Mel.Downey-Piper@heart.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Our NC Mini-Grant applications are OPEN!
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Please share this email widely.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0in"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">The American Heart Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC (BCBS of NC) are working together to improve heart health among North Carolina’s most at-risk populations. Part of
this health initiative includes a call for mini-grants<span style="color:#222328"> for communities to implement their ideas to promote heart health in the
<b>Triangle (Wake, Durham, and Orange counties),</b> Triad (Guilford and Forsyth counties), and Charlotte (Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Union counties). This is the third round of mini-grants to be awarded.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif;color:#222328">Community partners are encouraged to apply for mini-grants ranging from $2,500 - $10,000 to support heart healthy policies and environments. Community members, including
individuals, churches, senior centers, community health centers, housing authorities, historically black colleges and universities, community colleges, city and county governments, hospitals, employers, and others are welcome to apply for mini-grants focused
on community health needs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif;color:#222328;background:white">Where do I go to
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">learn more and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.heart.org/en/affiliates/north-carolina-community-health-mini-grant-application" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">https://www.heart.org/en/affiliates/north-carolina-community-health-mini-grant-application</span></a> <span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Can I find out more information?</span> </b><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Yes, on October 11, 2021 there will be a mini-grant informational session.</span> <span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif"> You can
</span><a href="https://heart.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2_5FQ4vzTwyKAkT6QUSHZA" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE</span></a><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">What are your funding priorities?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Increase the capacity to provide fresh or frozen produce at a food pantry/bank (e.g. purchase of refrigerator, sink, shelving, etc);<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Establish a new food distribution site (e.g. pop-up market, mini-pantry, etc);<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Implement food security screenings in a clinic or community setting with a referral system in place;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Launch an EBT (SNAP & WIC) payment system at a Farmers Market, mobile market, or other healthy food outlet (except corner stores);<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Increase access to USDA Child Nutrition programs (i.e. CACFP early care, supper, summer programs);<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Implement a self-measured blood pressure program in a clinic or community setting;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Address COVID-related complications related to nutrition security or access to care;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Implement tobacco-free policy adoption at churches, worksites, or schools;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Develop and adopt community-level health equity plans;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222328;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Other strategies to improve heart healthy spaces.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">What is the application deadline?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Thursday, November 5.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">What if I applied in the past?</span> </b><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif;color:#222328">Organizations or community groups that submitted and/or were awarded a community health mini-grant in the past are welcome to submit applications focused on a different
program.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Who can I contact with questions?<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Mel Downey-Piper<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lub Dub Light",sans-serif">Thank you!
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