Request for Proposals

Bethesda Inc. has awarded grants through an annual Request for Proposal (RFP) in previous years. It has employed an engaging and streamlined three-step grant review and selection process that included preliminary applications, presentations and full proposals.

Grants were awarded most recently in July 2017 as a result of the RFP process.

At this time, Bethesda Inc. is not accepting grant applications. Look to this page for further announcements and subscribe at the bottom of this page to our newsletter for timely updates sent directly to you.

GRANTMAKING STRATEGY

Bethesda Inc. has funded transformational health care solutions that have the potential to lead to sustainable systems and/or culture change as well as deliver on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim objectives:

  • Better care for individuals, including enhanced patient satisfaction, quality of care, access to care, and reliability of care.
  • Better health, especially for groups of people with chronic diseases and for projects that alleviate the underlying causes of illness, such as poor nutrition, physical inactivity and substance abuse.
  • Lower cost, with an emphasis on reducing unnecessary expenses and controlling the per capita rate of cost growth.

PURPOSE AND FUNDING PRIORITIES

Bethesda Inc. has awarded large planning and multi-year implementation grants to fund new ideas and approaches to health care delivery that align with Bethesda Inc.'s guiding principles and fall within at least one of our funding priorities.

Funding Priorities

  • Behavioral health conditions with a focus on the inter-relationships of behavioral and physical health, including substance abuse.
  • Enhancing end-of-life planning and palliative care.
  • Engaging patients and healthcare providers in achieving better health outcomes, care experiences and pain management.
  • Ensuring appropriate access to health care and improving the use of appropriate sites of care.
  • Improving care coordination and transitions of care.

Guiding Principles

  • Impact, including the opportunity to be a catalyst for breakthrough change and transformational impact.
  • Alignment with broad community health care goals and initiatives, such as the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment and Gen-H Collective Impact on Health goals published by The Health Collaborative. Collaborations and partnerships to create systemic change are encouraged.
  • Accountability and the capacity to deliver successful programs and services, including excellence in management teams, fiscal soundness and financial diversification, and grant monitoring, reporting and evaluation capabilities.

TYPES OF GRANTS

Bethesda Inc. grants act as a stimulus for new ideas and practices: 

Implementation grants are for the initiation of a program or project that results in better care, better health and/or lower cost; an idea that has been partially or fully developed, and initiatives that require additional resources to pilot, execute or scale.

Planning grants may include support for formal research and needs assessments with recommendations, implementation plans, a written business plan, and/or for the refining and strengthening of initial efforts.