Community Impact and Community Capacity Grants
Wisconsin Partnership Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
The Wisconsin Partnership Program is an endowed statewide health fund created from the conversion of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin and housed at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Its community grant stream is unusual in that the community organisation is the grantee rather than the university. Community Capacity grants are aimed at smaller and newer organisations building the infrastructure to do this work; Community Impact grants require substantial and authentic community leadership and target the social determinants of health, making them a natural home for practice-embedde
- Indicative award
- up to $20k (total award)Community Capacity grants are published as up to $20,000 for up to one year. Community Impact grant amounts are not stated on this page, so the upper bound shown reflects only the Capacity mechanism and understates the Impact awards.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · MayNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Requests for Partnerships are issued on an annual cycle; both the Community Capacity and Community Impact calls were shown as closed when the page was retrieved, with applicants directed to the grants overview for the next round. Reporting elsewhere put the 2026 Community Impact Level 2 letter of in
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Wisconsin organisations only. Community Capacity grants are restricted to smaller or newer organisations, defined as those with under $500,000 in annual expenses or nonprofits that obtained tax-exempt status after 1 January 2021. Community Impact grants require demonstrated community leadership of the project and a partnership addressing social determinants of health; a university cannot lead these as the applicant and would join as an academic evaluation partner to a community grantee.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social determinants of health · community capacity building · health equity · community-led evaluation
- Apply at
- https://wpp.med.wisc.edu/grant-funding/community-grants/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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