Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards program

Posted by Morgan Stanley Foundation on June 11, 2024

Morgan Stanley Foundation invites applications for Innovation Awards program

The Morgan Stanley Foundation invites applications for its Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards program, which aims to fund transformative mental healthcare solutions for children across the United States while addressing the lack of investment in youth mental health, connecting innovative ideas with capital, and building capacity for nonprofits.

The foundation seeks new or piloted projects from direct-service organizations that will help address the far-reaching challenge of stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues in children and young adults in the United States. Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs to reduce stigma, increase access to care, improve equity in mental health, or enable early identification/prevention or enhance intervention, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.

A proposed project can be national, regional, or local in scope. The foundation is especially interested in projects that show the feasibility of replicating or scaling the service to benefit children and youth in broader communities.

Five winners will receive grants of $100,000 to test and scale their innovative work, as well as leadership training from industry experts.

Applicants must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The program is primarily focused on those with annual revenue under $5 million; applicants with an annual total revenue over $5 million must demonstrate why they cannot fund the proposed initiative internally.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Morgan Stanley website.

Deadline: July 8, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. ET