ADVANCING A HEALTHIER WISCONSIN ENDOWMENT: COLLABORATE INVEST CHANGE

HEALTHIER WISCONSIN PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

AUGUST 10, 2015

Registration Open: HWPP Capacity Building Opportunity

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program is offering a capacity building opportunity for community-based and community-academic partnerships. We invite you to join us for a hands-on learning event:

Building Sustainability into your Grant Project

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

9 am - 11 am

Country Springs Hotel, Pewaukee, WI

Presented by Jeremy Miner, MA, director of grants and contracts in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and president of Miner and Associates, Inc.

The event is open to the public at no charge, but participation space is limited.

HWPP Responsive Component: Cohort 3 Update

Twenty-three Stage 1 Changemaker Brief Proposals were submitted for the third cohort of the HWPP Responsive component.

Nine proposals that aligned with the AHW endowment's Principles, the Community-Academic Partnership Model and criteria outlined in the Call for Changemakers were invited to participate in the next stage of the application process. Invited partnerships will participate in a Pitch Presentation on September 3, 2015 with the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health and external reviewers. The Pitch Presentation is the partnerships' opportunity to describe their proposed project and grassroots policy, environmental or systems change, respond to Stage 1 reviewer questions and comments and engage in dialogue with the reviewers about their proposed project.

Groups interested in submitting applications for the Responsive component's next open funding opportunity can anticipate that it will be released in November 2015 with a brief proposal deadline of early January 2016.

For more information on the Responsive component

HWPP Strategic Component Update

After hearing from over 150 community stakeholders, HWPP is planning for an initiative designed to address opportunities to improve behavioral health in Wisconsin communities and will release a Request for Proposals (RFP) this fall. Multi-sector partnerships will learn together, share best practices, review evidence-based strategies, and build the capacity of Wisconsin communities to address leading behavioral health challenges and create meaningful, sustainable, and impactful change.

AHW hiring Senior Communications Consultant

The Senior Communicaions Consultant develops and executes

the internal and external communications strategy for the AHW endowment and its REP and HWPP funding programs.

The full-time position is currently posted online in the Careers section of MCW's website.