Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana Innovation Grant

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana Innovation Grant is sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Louisiana. Funds innovative projects aimed at improving health and well-being in Louisiana.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation We make grants to improve Louisiana’s health outcomes. Through our strategic philanthropic work, we empower people, organizations, and communities across the state to create meaningful and lasting change. Our grantee partners share our dedication to making a measurable impact on the health and lives of Louisiana’s people.

Learn about our grant programs in grants awarded for health outcomes and disaster relief volunteered by employees across the state health screenings, meals and more Grant Partners Making a Difference Peer Initiative is preventing teen suicide through peer support and education.

Peer Initiative utilizes an innovative approach which combines peer support with licensed counseling to identify teens at risk of death by suicide and connect them with lifesaving mental health resources. HEAL is delivering vital health services to students at schools across Louisiana.

The Health and Education Alliance of Louisiana (HEAL) is helping kids access healthcare in school at no cost to them, and guiding schools to tap into unused Federal funding. The Split Second Foundation is helping people with disabilities achieve independent living.

The Split Second Foundation’s fitness center and Cares program are helping people living with paralysis, stroke, or amputation live full, healthy lives and achieve their dreams. Learn how partners across Louisiana are closing the nursing gap. Since 2018, the Louisiana Blue Foundation has facilitated funding, coalition-building, and advocacy work to create and share collaborative models that graduate more qualified nurses.

Read our case study and learn more about our partners. Mary’s Hands Network is helping improve birth outcomes. Mary’s Hands Network is on a mission to empower women, promote birth excellence, and bridge the health equity gap in the community by providing top-notch training programs and manage a network of dedicated volunteer community doulas who offer essential support services free of charge.

Families Helping Families NOLA is connecting young people with autism to community and careers. The people of Families Helping Families NOLA are makers who create pathways for family members with disabilities, which is especially important for those who are waitlisted for services.

With funding from the Louisiana Blue Foundation, they’re training young people with autism to reach their career potential and live healthier, more fulfilling lives with rich social connections. The Baton Rouge Youth Coalition’s Health Fellows Program is diversifying the healthcare workforce.

Young people of color face unique obstacles in joining the healthcare workforce — especially those coming from backgrounds of generational poverty. But diversifying the healthcare workforce is the key to unlocking equitable health outcomes. The Baton Rouge Youth Coalition is helping connecting young people to their dreams.

Louvis Services is providing permanent housing for people in high need. Louvis Services provides affordable housing opportunities in the New Orleans community by serving people who are living outside, on the streets, in their cars, and in abandoned buildings. The Crescent City Mentorship Collaborative is breaking down barriers to build community support for young people.

Mentors can create community, support and connection for today’s youths. The Crescent City Mentoring Collaborative is a coalition of Black-led New Orleans nonprofit organizations with the shared mission to strengthen the recruitment and retention pipeline for effective mentors throughout the local community.