This grant provides a part-time salary of $30,000 a year for two years and $14,500 for technical assistance starting in January of 2000. Formerly, this was an all-volunteer agency. The purpose of this grant is to make fundraising from the private sector available to many more non-profit health care provider agencies, which are usually understaffed and under-funded and often do not have the resources to envision alternative solutions to the problems they face.

The grant of $74,500 has enabled The Health Initiative to develop a five-year strategic plan, which includes state of the art computer hardware and software to streamline the research phase of grant writing. It also includes the development of organizational procedures and public relations materials to facilitate both outreach to provider agencies and successful grant writing. The grant will also fund the development of volunteer training materials with the goal of providing more grant writers to more agencies in need of technical assistance.