Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation: Hillman Innovations in Care Program

The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of patients and their families through nursing-driven innovation. To this end, the Foundation cultivates nurse leaders, supports nursing research, and disseminates new models of care that are critical to making the U.S. healthcare system more patient-centered, accessible, equitable, and affordable.

The goal of the Hillman Innovations in Care Program is to advance leading-edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and healthcare of vulnerable populations, including the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBQT, the homeless, rural populations, and other groups that encounter barriers to accessing healthcare services.

The Foundation specifically seeks proposals that address the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations in the following areas:

• maternal and child health;
• care of the older adult; and,
• chronic illness management.

Support is provided for two types of proposals:

• the adaptation of proven, well-established nursing-driven models to new or expanded settings or patient populations; and,
• the expansion of emerging nursing-driven models that possess evidence suggesting a strong likelihood for broad scalability.

Priority consideration is given to proposals that include one or more of the following:

• engagement of patients, families, caregivers, and community organizations;
• inter-professional or multidisciplinary collaboration;
• institutional and community partnerships;
• provision of care in non-hospital settings;
• strong preliminary evidence; and,
• measurable goals and outcomes.

Grants are not provided to/for:

• white papers, literature reviews, or support for publishing;
• capital projects or improvements;
• basic science or research;
• the development of stand-alone technology, including medical devices and mobile apps not integral to the overall design of the program; or,
• projects outside the United States and its territories.

The Foundation will make at least two grants annually up to a maximum of $600,000 each.

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