Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards program – Jul 14

Posted by Morgan Stanley Foundation on June 20, 2023

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. It aims to help fill the funding gap in the under-resourced children’s mental health sector and provide a runway for game-changing ideas.

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 showing 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 consultation and training from industry professionals.

Applicants must be tax-exempt as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The program primarily focuses on those with annual revenue under $10 million, and applicants with annual total revenue over $10 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 14, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. ET