WIC Community Innovation and Outreach Grants
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WIC Community Innovation and Outreach (CIAO) Grants will provide funding to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative outreach strategies to increase WIC awareness, participation, redemption of benefits, and reduce disparities in program delivery.
Successful projects will:
- Include applicants that serve and/or are from historically and currently marginalized populations with disparities in access to WIC and other maternal and child health resources
- Propose outreach strategies that are
innovative. Include at least one innovative outreach
strategy from a minimum of one identified priority area:
- Expand Partnerships: strengthen existing partnerships to connect underserved populations with WIC benefits and services
- Apply Navigator Models: Use community champion or navigator models to connect families with other programs meeting similar WIC goals
- Head Start and Early Head Start Partnerships: Build or improve relationship between WIC and Head Start or Early Head Start programs
- Innovative Outreach Project: Implement an innovative project adaptable for diverse communities
- Can be sustained beyond the period of funding and technical assistance including by leveraging existing staff positions
- Result in best practices that are transparent so that successful activities can be scaled or easily adapted to other organizations and/or WIC agencies of varying sizes and resources, and that are dealing with different local context and priority populations
Eligible applicants include WIC agencies, a Head Start entity, and nonprofit entities.
Examples of eligible applicants include but are not limited to:
- Tribal organizations
- Community health centers
- Hospitals
- Public housing sites
- Indian health service facilities
- Colleges and universities
- Cooperative extension services
- Migrant health centers and camps
- Faith-based organizations
- Nonprofit advocacy organizations and coalitions
Award ceiling: $1,000,000
Award floor: $100,000
Project period: 24 months
Estimated total program funding:
$14,800,000
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