Grants

EOCCO offers three separate grant programs to improve health and access to healthcare of Eastern Oregonians. These grant programs aim to fund services that are not already covered by health insurance. These grant programs are available to traditional healthcare providers, community-based organizations, early learning hubs, tribal governments, food banks and many other types of organizations serving EOCCO’s service area: Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa and Wheeler counties.

2024 Available Grant Programs

Community Benefit Initiative Reinvestment (CBIR)

The Community Benefit Initiative Reinvestment (CBIR) grants fund one-year long projects (January through December) that aim to improve access to quality care. Applicants may apply for up to $50,000 and must be able to demonstrate how EOCCO members (also known as the Oregon Health Plan) directly benefit. CBIR applications open every year in late summer/early fall. There are three grant categories within CBIR:

Transformation Application: These projects are aimed at specific incentive measures and opportunities for continuing projects from previous grant cycles. Previous projects have focused on areas such as: health information technology, language access services, well-child visits, traditional health workers and immunizations.

Public Health Department Application: This application allows public health department to propose projects to improve the health and wellbeing of EOCCO members and their communities.

New Ideas Application: This application allows applicants to propose novel ideas focused on the topic areas outlined in the application form. . Previous topic areas have included workforce strategies, new programs to engage EOCCO members, and new ideas to integrate or improve clinical services to members. This application reopens every six months.

Community Benefit Initiative Reinvestment Technical Assistance Requirement

All grant applicants are required to obtain free technical assistance (TA) as they develop their proposal. TA will ensure applications meet program requirements, improve the quality of the applications, and improve the likelihood of being selected for funding. This may come in the form of reviewing and editing a draft application, meeting over zoom to discuss the application, or email exchange of questions about the application.

Please contact the CBIR TA team at CBIR@ohsu.edu to receive one-on-one TA.

Past Community Benefit Initiative Grant Summaries

This includes Local Community Health Partnership (LCHP), Transformation, and New Idea projects.

Health Related Social Needs- Community Capacity Building Funds (CCBF)

In late 2023, the State of Oregon was approved to offer climate devices and services, nutrition services and housing supports, to at-risk Oregon Health Plan (OHP, or Medicaid) members experiencing a qualifying life transition.

These services are called the Health Related Social Needs (HRSN) benefit. HRSN will help vulnerable populations access resources to stay healthy during and after life transitions. The HRSN benefit will be phased in over the course of a couple of years:

Climate Devices- March 2024
Housing Services- November 2024
Nutrition Services- January 2025

Housing benefits will continue to roll out for additional OHP members throughout 2025.

The HRSN benefit will provide new opportunities for EOCCO to partner, coordinate care, identify needs, and track access for housing, climate and nutrition services. Community-based organizations (CBO), social service agencies, and housing and food providers will play an important role in providing services a to eligible OHP members.

Beginning on March 1, 2024, community funding will be available statewide to support organizations that are interested in becoming HRSN providers. Oregon Health Authority will be distributing this funding regionally to the CCOs, and the CCOs will be responsible for reviewing applications, awarding funding, and monitoring use of the funds.

As a result, EOCCO will be able to distribute additional grants to organizations to build the necessary capabilities and capacity to provide climate, housing, and nutrition services as a Medicaid health benefit. Funding will be available to support investment and activities in four categories:

Technology
Development of Business or Operational Practices
Workforce development
Outreach, education, and convening

EOCCO’s window for accepting applications for community capacity building funding opens up on March 1, 2024. EOCCO will accept applications from March 1, 2024- May 31, 2024.

If you have general questions or comments about the Community Capacity Building Funding process, please reach out to us at HRSNQuestions@eocco.com.

Application Readiness Assessment

EOCCO has developed a survey to help CBOs determine their level of readiness to start the grant application or help them identify if they qualify and what they can use grant dollars for. To take the survey, click here.

Once submitted, a member of our staff will reach out to you!

This survey is meant to serve as a tool. It is not required and does not automatically qualify any organizations for grant funding.

Technical Assistance Webinars

CCBF applicants are required to obtain free technical assistance as they develop their proposal. Register for one of the following Technical Assistance webinars to learn more about the CCBF application and answer general questions.

Please contact CBIR@ohsu.edu for 1-on-1 technical assistance.

Supporting Health for All through Reinvestment (SHARE)

The SHARE application is designed to provide funding to projects addressing Social Determinants of Health and Equity (SDOH-E). SDOH-E projects include housing, transportation, food, utilities, safety, education, community health, and more. Funded projects should plan to launch Fall 2024.

There are two grant categories within SHARE:

SHARE: Any organization who is a SDOH-E partner organization delivering services or programs and/or supports policy and systems change in EOCCO’s service area. Examples of SDOH-E partner organizations include nonprofit social and human service organizations, culturally specific organizations, public health authorities and more. Applicants may apply for funding between $15,000-$250,000. Proposed projects should be completed within 1-3 years depending on the size and scope of the project.

The next SHARE application cycle will open in early 2025. Please contact CBIR@ohsu.edu with any questions.

Local Community Health Partnership (LCHP)

Each year EOCCO earmarks a portion of funding for the 12 designated LCHPs to project serving their communities that meet OHA defined SHARE requirements. Each LCHP has a dedicated funding amount based on EOCCO members served in each county. LCHP projects should be designed to be 1-year long with the possibility to apply for an extension.

If you have questions, please reach out to the CBIR TA team at CBIR@ohsu.edu.