The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation is committed to improving the health and healthcare of all people, especially groups and communities who experience inequity, discrimination and indifference.
Our goal is to help ignite and develop game-changing interventions and to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem of nurse innovators, grantees, and partners dedicated to building a healthier, more equitable future for all.
We focus our grantmaking efforts on advancing leading edge, nursing-driven interventions that target the needs of marginalized populations. From the newly imagined to the well-established, our pipeline of grants is designed to fuel great ideas wherever they are in their development.
The Hillman Emergent Innovation (HEI) Program provides up to five, $50,000, 12–18 month grants to accelerate the development of bold, nursing-driven interventions targeting the needs of groups and communities who have historically struggled against oppression, discrimination and indifference.
These populations include the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, low-income rural populations, and other groups that encounter obstacles to accessing quality health care services.
We seek creative, early stage (pre-evidence or untested) innovations that target health and health care problems in new ways.
The Hillman Serious Illness and End of LIfe Emergent Innovation (HSEI) Program provides up to thirteen $50,000, 12-18 month grants to accelerate the development of bold, nursing-driven interventions targeting the needs of groups and communities who have historically struggled against oppression, discrimination and indifference.
These populations include the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, low-income rural populations, and other groups that encounter obstacles to accessing quality health care services.
We seek creative, early stage (pre-evidence or untested) innovations that target health and health care problems in new ways.
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This year the Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program is issuing a special call for submissions that address racism and its impact on health. Racism has been, and remains, the root cause of serious health inequities that unjustly affect communities of color. These disparities include increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, obesity and mental illness; inequitable access to high-quality care; inordinately negative outcomes such as infant and maternal mortality rates for Black mothers and babies that are twice as high as those for white populations, and life expectancy that can be as much as ten years shorter than white counterparts living a short drive away.
The disproportionate harm of the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous and other communities of color further underscores the deep inequities that persist in our society. Addressing and dismantling racism in its myriad forms—structural, interpersonal, and institutional—is a critical and constructive approach to advancing health equity and improving population health.
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The Hillman Innovation Dissemination Program (HID) aims to expand and enhance the scaling efforts of established nursing-driven interventions with proven outcomes that target the needs of marginalized populations.
The Hillman staff work closely with grantees to tailor the scope of the work. This can take many forms: a large-scale evaluation to demonstrate effectiveness to potential community and government partners; the development of a tool that would help interested health systems gauge the viability and cost effectiveness of adopting the proposed intervention; or helping to stage a targeted communications effort intended to influence policy makers.
A one-year, $200,000 grant is awarded to the Alameda County Care Alliance Advanced Illness Care Program™ (ACCA-AICP), a faith- and community-based program providing care navigation services to people with advanced illness and their families and caregivers. The ACCA-AICP works with more than 42 denominationally diverse African American churches in the San Francisco Bay area and has piloted projects with two healthcare systems.
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Representing leading edge, nursing-driven efforts to address the impact of racism on health, the work of this year’s grant recipients will target inequities in postpartum care for birthing people of color, and the effects of historical trauma and discrimination on the mental health of Native American youth. The grants, totaling $1.2 million, have been awarded to Community of Hope, Washington D.C. and to the University of Texas at Austin.
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To help us in the evaluation and analysis of projects, all proposals, documents, communications, and associated materials submitted to The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation (collectively, “Submission Materials”) will become the property of the Foundation and will be shared with other members of the Advisory Committee, Board of Directors, and other funding partners or potential funding partners. We will report publicly on the number of applications received.
The proposals, in addition to analysis by our staff and consultants, may be subject to confidential external review by independent subject-matter experts, potential co-funders, and (for educational purposes only) participants in the Hillman Scholars Program for Nursing Innovation. Please carefully consider the information included in the Submission Materials. If you have any doubts about the wisdom of disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, we recommend you consult with legal counsel and take any steps you deem necessary to protect your intellectual property. You may wish to consider whether such information is critical for evaluating the submission, and whether more general, non-confidential information may be adequate as an alternative for these purposes.
We respect confidential information we receive. Nonetheless, notwithstanding your characterization of any information as being confidential, we may publicly disclose all information contained in Submission Materials to the extent as may be required by law and as is necessary for potential co-funders and external reviewers to evaluate them and the manner and scope of potential funding, consistent with appropriate regulations and their internal guidelines and policies.
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