North Carolina Community Health Subawards

Communities know their needs and often have ideas and solutions to improve the health of their community. The American Heart Association (AHA), with support from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Novant Health, is funding organizations to champion the implementation of ideas to promote heart health in specific communities across North Carolina. Community partners are eligible for subawards ranging from $2,500 - $10,000 to support heart healthy policies and environments. Organizations may include community-based organizations, churches, senior centers, community health centers, housing authorities, historically black colleges and universities, community colleges, city and county government, and others are welcome to apply.

The Summer/Fall 2024 cycle will fund projects in the Cape Fear, Charlotte, Triad, and Triangle regions.

Possible projects may include:

  • Implement a community or clinic-based blood pressure screening, education, and referral program
  • Increase capacity to provide fresh or frozen produce at a food pantry/bank (e.g. purchase of refrigerator, sink, shelving, etc);
  • Establish a new food distribution site (e.g. pop-up market, mini-pantry, etc);
  • Launch an EBT (SNAP & WIC) payment system at a Farmers Market, mobile market, or other healthy food outlet (except corner stores);
  • Implement tobacco-free policy adoption at churches, worksites, or schools;
  • Implement a cardiac emergency response plan, a written document that establishes the specific steps to reduce death from cardiac arrest in any setting - including access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) and Hands-Only CPR training
  • Address maternal health and cardiovascular disease risk among pregnant women
  • Other strategies to improve the health of your community. 

The grant application window is now closed. Grantees for the current cycle will be notified by October 2024.

Complete this form to receive future communications about open grant opportunities available in your community.

Past Awardees

2023

Charlotte:

  • TruSolace Counseling and Wellness Center:  Establishing a youth garden club with area school children; focusing on healthy eating options and establishing healthier life habits
  • Community Health Services of Union County: Providing support for hypertensive patients in monitoring their numbers and supporting them in establishing managed care
  • Zealous Empowering Nurturer, Inc.:  Educating families on gardening techniques and utilizing grown produce to fight nutrition insecurity
  • Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry: Funds support the purchase, assembly, and distribution of 300 prenatal boxes to food-insecure pregnant women throughout Cabarrus County.
  • Embrace All Latino Voices:  Support toward blood pressure self-management stations, hypertension equipment for loaner initiatives, translation services and health education for area residents.
  • Grier Heights Presbyterian Church: Community-based blood pressure screening and referral program. In addition, there will be a commercial stove purchased to increase their capacity to provide food to congregants and community residents.
  • Nourish Up/Loaves & Fishes: A new refrigerator or freezer unit at their new Nourish Up hub location.
  • St. Paul Baptist Church: A new refrigerator or freezer unit for their on-site food pantry. 

Triangle:

  • Alliance Medical Ministry, Raleigh, NC:  Supporting a community farm, nutrition classes, and health initiatives
  • Healing with CAARE, Durham, NC: Maternal health education series and events including blood pressure and CPR awareness.
  • LATIN-19, across the Triangle: Funding to support Community Health Workers, supplies, and blood pressure self-monitoring kits for a mobile clinic serving the Latino and Hispanic community.
2021/2022

Charlotte:

  • The Heights Community Development Center: Generational Health in the Community, food security & hypertension management
  • Care Ring: Heart Health Initiative, hypertension management
  • Wingate University: Promoting Heart Health and Addressing Food Insecurity in Rural Eastern Union County, additional farmers market
  • Grier Heights Presbyterian Church: Grier Heights Fresh Food Express, food security
  • Uptown Farmers Market: Shuttle Service for Seniors from Affordable Housing Communities, transportation and food security

Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill):

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,School of Nursing Mobile Health Clinic: Addressing food insecurity and ASCVD risk assessment to improve health, self-management support and CVD outcomes
  • Alliance Medical Ministry: Social Determinants of Health screening and food access
  • Iglesia La Semilla : "La Alacena Comunitaria de Durham" (Durham's Community Pantry)
  • Black Farmers Market:Double Bucks Program
  • PORCH Hillsborough: Cold food storage to increase capacity for community hunger relief

Triad (Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem):

  • Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services (GCDHHS)- Public Health Division and Greensboro Housing Coalition/Cottage Grove Collaborative: Establish SMBP and diabetes screening initiative
  • Neighborhood Markets Inc.: Double Dollar SNAP program
  • H.O.P.E. Neighborhood Market: SNAP and food security screenings
  • Association of North Carolina Boards of Health: Establish SMBP and wellness initiative to reduce high blood pressure
  • United Health Centers: Food security screenings and food pharmacy program to increase access to healthy foods utilizing an innovative approach
  • Out of the Garden Project: Food security screening to increase access to healthy foods for low-income families
Winter 2020/2021
  • Alliance Medical Ministry: Distributing Fresh Produce to Uninsured Adults with Chronic Diseases (Triangle)
  • Bike Durham: Protected Light Individual Transportation (LIT) Lanes and Shared Streets as Areas for Residents to Walk, Ride, and Play (Triangle)
  • Camino Community Center: Camino Vida Teaching Kitchen (Charlotte)
  • Cary Downtown Farmers Market: Farmers Market Bucks (Triangle)
  • Feed My Sheep of Durham: Doing our part in Northeast Central Durham (Triangle)
  • Greensboro Farmers Market: Heart Health Ways 4 Healthy Living: How to Plan/Shop, Cook and Move to Support Your Heart Health (Triad)
  • Guilford Community Care Network: Supporting Healthy Practices for Underserved and Indigent Adults of Guilford County (Triad)
  • Guilford County Department of Health & Human Services – Public: COVID-19 Postpartum Hypertension Self-Management Project (Triad)
  • Heated Seminars, LLC Health Education Consultants: How to Have an Illness and Live a Healthy Life (Triad)
  • H.O.P.E. of Winston-Salem: Help Our People Eat (Triad)
  • Hope Street Food Pantry: Operation Raise Funds for a Bigger Box Truck (Charlotte)
  • Lincoln Community Health Center (Durham): Treating hypertension in a high-risk, low-resource population through at home BP monitoring (Triangle)
  • Magnolia House Foundation, Inc.: Continue to improve the health and knowledge of the community (Triad)
  • McLeod Addictive Disease Center, Inc: Residential Patient NRT, CO Monitoring, and Tobacco-Free Campus Signage (Charlotte)
  • N.C. A&T University / CAES Student and Community Farm: Fresh herbs and healthy food demonstrations at NC A&T’s Student and Community Farm (Triad)
  • Neighborhood Markets, Inc.: Green for Greens Fund: Matching SNAP Dollars at a Time of Extraordinary Need (Triad)
  • New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church: Fostering our Faith, Heeding our Health and Caring for our Community: Promoting Healthy Living in the Midst of a Pandemic (Triad)
  • Presbyterian Hospital Foundation (Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation): Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation (Charlotte)
  • Sigma Nu Fraternity Incorporated: High Point University: The Garden (Triad)
  • The Twenty Inc.: Fresh Start Healthy Heart for Families Program (Triad)
  • YMCA of the Triangle: Durham Y Delivers: Heart Healthy Cooking & Healthy Meals for Kids (Triangle)
  • Spring 2020
  • Camino Community Center
  • Care Ring
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg Food Policy Council
  • Cobblestone Farmers Market
  • Community Faith Builders Corporation
  • Cone Health
  • Durham County Health Department
  • Farmer Foodshare
  • Guilford Community Care Network
  • Holly Springs Food Cupboard
  • Imprints Cares
  • Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
  • Josephine Dobbs Clement Early College High School Magnolia House Foundation, Inc.
  • McLeod Addictive Disease Center, Inc.
  • Neighborhood Markets, Inc.
  • New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
  • Out of the Garden
  • SEEDS
  • Shepherd’s Care Medical Clinic
  • SMSi Healthy Living Solutions, Inc.
  • The Hope Center at Pullen, Inc.
  • Time Out Youth Center
  • Union County Government
  • WakeUP Wake County