Current Funding Opportunities

2025 Healthy Eating Letters of Intent (LOI)

Release Date: October 15, 2024

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation (Foundation) seeks Letters of Intent (LOIs) from eligible organizations to promote healthy eating behaviors, including fruit and vegetable consumption.

A high-quality diet that includes fruits and vegetables and appropriate daily caloric intake can combat the onset of chronic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Healthy eating patterns contribute to children’s healthy growth and development. Adults can reduce their risk of chronic illnesses or manage chronic conditions through a healthy diet.

What We Will Fund

The Foundation is interested in individual, family, and environmental strategies that address barriers to healthy eating. Specifically, evidence-based programs to increase the knowledge and skills of individuals and families to choose, prepare, and consume healthy meals and fruits and vegetables are of interest. Environmental strategies, such as organizational practices that promote or increase opportunities for healthy eating will also be considered.

School Approaches: Proposals for programs offered during the school day at schools should be submitted by schools or school districts. Proposals containing official agreements between non-profits and schools will be considered when the school has a significant financial stake in the program and strong administrative support.

Key Dates

Deadlines & Schedule

• Letters of intent due via the Foundation’s online application system: November 20, 2024
• Invitations for full proposals announced: December 20, 2024
• Invited applicants may meet with the Program Officer before submitting a full proposal
• Full proposals due: February 20, 2025
• Notice of grant award: June 1, 2025
• Funding cycle starts: The earliest grant start date is July 1, but later dates may be proposed. Grants will be for one year.

Eligibility And Selection Criteria

Eligible applicants include nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, including churches and units of government, located in the Paso del Norte Region. See the Grant Center on the Paso del Norte Health Foundation website for more information about grant guidelines.

Service Region

The Paso del Norte Health Foundation operates in a unique binational environment, which stretches across two countries and three states. This region serves the 2.4 million people living in El Paso and Hudspeth Counties in far west Texas, Doña Ana, Luna, and Otero Counties in southern New Mexico, and the municipality of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.