Healthy Living Mini Grant

The Healthy Living Mini-Grant is an easy-to-apply-for grant from Austin Public Health that provides money for projects that help people live healthier in Austin and Travis County. We are looking forward to funding projects that make a community change to help prevent chronic disease and address health disparities.
A community change is an action that creates lasting improvement in a community. The most impactful changes often affect a whole group of people, not just one person. These types of changes are often called Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) changes.

A PSE change helps make the healthy choice the easy choice for everyone in a community. For example, creating (or enhancing) a garden for people in your community is an environmental change that allows people to get exercise as well as eat healthy food as long as the garden exists (which can be years!).
Health disparities are preventable differences in health experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. They include differences in how long people live, how many people die, their overall health, and how often certain health problems show up.

Ready to turn your project idea into a lasting community change?
Apply for the Healthy Living Mini-Grant!