Faith & Health
These microgrants support academic partners who are integrating religion as a social determinant of health into their work.
Across the health ecosystem, leaders and practitioners increasingly recognize religion as a key social determinant of health. Yet, despite our nation’s growing religious diversity, few health professionals are equipped with the religious literacy and interfaith competencies needed to address this key factor in wellbeing. Additionally, most health leaders do not fully engage the web of faith-inspired support systems as trusted allies and assets in the cycle of care.
Interfaith America (IA) is committed to advancing religious pluralism within the health ecosystem through targeted initiatives that promote curricular innovation, research, public scholarship, and community initiatives. The Faith & Health Pipeline Grant program, generously funded by the John Templeton Foundation (JTF), aims to support academic partners who are committed to integrating religion as a social determinant of health into their work. These microgrants will empower recipients to develop and implement curricular interventions, conduct research, shape the public narrative, and foster community-based collaboration at the intersection of faith and health.
The Faith & Health Pipeline Grant program is designed to support those working in academic and community settings to integrate religion as a social determinant of health in courses and curricula, research, public narrative, and/or community-based initiatives. This program offers microgrants to aid in the development and implementation of such initiatives that bridge the faith and health divide.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
After implementing the scope of work agreed upon in the MOA, grantees are required to complete a final report which would include a description of grant activities, an assessment of program impact, any pieces produced as part of the project (e.g., syllabi, academic or public narrative pieces, media coverage of events, testimonials, etc.), as well as intended next steps after the grant to make program impact sustainable. Final reports are due no later than one month after project completion.
Pipeline Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis until available funding has been allocated. Applicants can expect the following timeline to unfold, beginning with a completed submission through IA’s online form.
For further information, please contact Nazish Rizwan at [email protected].
The Faith & Health Pipeline Grants are designed as microgrants, defined for this program as awards of up to $10,000 per project. Applicants should submit proposals with budgets that do not exceed this amount. In exceptional cases, proposals may be considered for funding above $10,000 if a compelling rationale is provided and approved by the program team. Any such exceptions will be rare and must align closely with the strategic goals of the program.
Grant funds may not be used for:
Through its grant programs, Interfaith America is committed to supporting initiatives that meaningfully engage people with a range of religious, philosophical, or ideological perspectives as well as diverse racial and ethnic identities. To this end, the selection process will employ strategies that lead to selection of a wide range of institutions. IA will conduct an initial blind review of proposals and ultimately prioritize institutional diversity among selected proposals.
Faith & Health Pipeline Grants
One-year microgrants to support academic partners who are integrating religion as a social determinant of health into their work.
Please reach out with questions about the grant or eligibility.
Suzanne Watts Henderson
Senior Director
Interfaith America
Pluralism looks to build bridges where others seek to widen divides.
— Eboo Patel
