50th Anniversary Grant Information 

Grant applications are now closed.

Applicants will be notified by August 15, 2023.

Overview

Quality Insights is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving health and healthcare. Founded in 1973, we are celebrating 50 years of using quality improvement science, education, and collaboration to develop and bring best practices to health care settings and communities. As change agents, connectors and decision partners, we have assisted tens of thousands of clinicians, impacting millions of patients. Odds are, we have reached you. 

To give back to the communities we serve and advance our vision of catalyzing community- and data-driven health and healthcare quality improvement, we are issuing grants totaling $100,000 to spark innovation or give a boost to promising projects.

Learn more about eligibility, funding amounts, priority areas, and the application process by reviewing this grant application document.  

Together, we can improve health and care. 

Webinar

• View the Grant Webinar Recording

  • Passcode: @V8uw5QN

• Grant Webinar Slide Deck

• Webinar Questions and Answers

• Grant Application Budget Template

• Sample Grant Agreement

Eligibility

This grant program is available to non-profit organizations and educational institutions in the following U.S. states and territories: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  

Funding Amounts

Quality Insights expects to award $100,000 in total. We estimate eight to 15 awards in amounts up to $20,000.

Priority Areas

To be considered, grant requests should address one or more of the following priority areas.

Provider Care

• Strategies to address work-related stress and burnout among clinicians and staff

• Approaches for addressing workforce deficiencies within a healthcare setting (e.g., nursing homes, hospitals, clinician offices, etc.).

Grassroots

• Addressing health care disparities and determinants of health

• Addressing veteran-specific health issues and determinants of health

• Chronic disease management and patient self-management

• Addressing conditions associated with substance use disorder

Education and Research

• Preventive health education

• Volunteer/peer training in a health-related field

• Data and analytics that support health sciences, continuous quality improvement, population health, and/or vulnerable populations

• Application development that addresses a health care-related need

• Health care workforce training and talent development 

Areas of Exclusion

• Academic scholarships

• Endowments

• General operating costs

• Individuals

• Retroactive funding

• Salary and benefits not directly supporting the goals of the grant

• Matching funds for federal or other grants and awards

• Political campaigns and legislative lobbying efforts

• Projects that exclusively serve religious purposes

• Building or capital campaigns

• Organizations or programs and/or provider services that are based primarily outside the designated geographic areas 

• Debt reduction

• Projects that are not directly related to the funding priorities

• Broad, unfocused requests

• Legal services

• Equipment purchases

• Promotional giveaways/items, gift cards or gifts

• Projects that are not scalable to other organizations or settings

Key Provisions

• Organizations may submit only one application.

• The award and administration of grants are subject to applicable laws, regulations, and policies.

• Awardees must sign a grant agreement and comply with the terms and conditions.

• Any work product resulting from the grants may not be copyrighted or otherwise protected, making it free for use in the public domain.

• Produced materials must acknowledge Quality Insights as grant funder, include our logo where applicable, and adhere to our branding standards. Materials that use our logo must be reviewed and approved.

• Awardees may be asked to attend a kickoff event/awards ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland, to present project goals and planned activities, and/or an outcomes summit (in-person or virtual) at the end of grant performance period. If requested to attend in person, Quality Insights will cover the cost of travel. 

• Alternatively, awardees may be asked to provide a video documenting the goals and/or success of the project to be presented at the kickoff event and/or outcomes summit.  

• Select awardees may also be asked to promote a grant award in their communities. This may include distributing a press release or participating in a local event such as a check award ceremony. 

• Awards are at the sole discretion of Quality Insights. All decisions are final, and there is no appeal process.

• Awardees will be asked to participate in quarterly conference calls with an assigned Quality Insights team member to discuss progress, successes and barriers, and opportunities for collaboration.

• At the completion of the performance period, awardees will be asked to complete a brief final report using a template provided by Quality Insights and agree to have their results publicly shared. 

• Successful grantees will be expected to complete a grant agreement similar to the one linked. Be sure to check it out to understand the implications of receiving the grant.

Submission Guidelines

Go to www.qualityinsights.org/50 and complete requested information in the online form.

1. Provide Organization and Contact Information:

   1. Legal Name of Applicant Organization 

   2. Applicant Organization Type (e.g. 501c3)

   3. Applicant Employer Identification Number (Individuals are not eligible for award. Do not provide social security numbers)

   4. Brief Description of Organization

   5. Authorized organizational representative contact information:

      1. Name

      2. Address

      3. E-mail 

      4. Phone number

2. Provide Brief Project Information:

   1. Title

   2. Funding priority area (Provider Care, Grassroots, or Education and Research)

   3. Two-to-three sentence description

3. Provide Project Details

   1. Description of services proposed or product to be developed

   2. Population to be served 

   3. 12-month work plan and timeline (assuming Sept. 1, 2023 – Aug. 31, 2024 performance period).  Include key milestones and/or anticipated measurable outcomes. 

4. Introduce Your Project Lead:

   1. Name

   2. Title

   3. Brief biography (Experience, education and expertise) 

5. Provide Three References:

   1. Contact name and title

   2. Business name address, phone number and email address

   3. Number of years worked or associated with

   4. Type of work/association

6. Complete a Project Budget Request 

   1. Download the template available on the Quality Insights website.

   2. Uploaded completed template into the grant application form.

   3. Please list any funding you are providing. If no funds being provided, leave blank.  (This is not required.)

7. Sign your Application

   1. Sign a disclaimer with signature of official authorized to bind organization.

Submission Deadline & Grant Awards

• All applications must be submitted by June 30, 2023 via the Grant Submission Portal.

• Quality Insights will not allow an extension for any reason, including technical issues with the submission process.  (Please allow sufficient time to submit.)  For help resolving technical issues, please contact Kasey Stevens (kstevens@qualitynsights.org).  

• Quality Insights will notify select awardees by August 15, 2023 via email through the submission contact allowing time to make travel arrangements, if applicable, for an anticipated October kickoff event.

• Additionally, all awardees will be listed on the Quality Insights website. 

1. Key Dates
   April 11, 2023	Grant submission period opens
   April 10, 2023 - June 27, 2023	Questions and Answers forum available on grant website
   May 2, 2023	Webinar meeting for interested organizations (attendance not required)
   June 30, 2023	Electronic Submission Due Date. Must be received by 2 p.m. EST
   August 22, 2023	Anticipated Notice of Award (Awardees posted on website)
   September 1, 2023	Grant period of performance begins
   October 2023	Kickoff event/awards ceremony, location TBD
   August 15, 2024	Draft Final Report due
   August 31, 2024	Grant period of performance ends and Final Report Due
   October 2024	Grant Outcomes Event, TBD

Questions?

Any questions regarding the grant application process should be entered into the question form on the grant application website (www.qualityinsights.org/50). We will also post Frequently Asked Questions received from all applicants.  For technical issues or organization-specific questions, please contact Kasey Stevens (kstevens@qualityinsights.org).