2021 Special Funding Opportunity

2021 Special Funding Opportunity

More and more in an era of accountable care communities, shared savings, and attempting to make Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) information more actionable, attempts are being made to bridge health and human service worlds through data for health tools. The desired outcome of such efforts is better client/patient outcomes and closer connections between clinical and human services stakeholders in a community. Helping bridge this gap represents a frequently requested type of support and a prime opportunity for philanthropy like Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) to creatively assist.

During 2021, this funding intentionally brought together NowPow and TCI to support community-based projects to make SDOH information more actionable. NowPow connects people to the right community resources so they can stay well, meet basic needs, manage with illness and care for others more effectively. NowPow’s personalized community referral platform fits into existing workflows, making it easy for clinicians, case workers, resource coordinators, payers, and other organizations to make high-quality referrals to trusted community services.

This funding is now closed, but during the over six (6) months we accepted proposals (open/rolling deadline), nearly 20 applications were received from throughout Illinois and Colorado. A brief summary of the awards made to support the use of community referral platform technology is listed here.