Grants: Solutions for Healthy Communities Grants Program 2025 - Deadline: 28-Feb-25

Deadline: 28-Feb-25

The Solutions for Healthy Communities Grant Program aims to catalyze innovation in community solutions that facilitate access to quality health care for underserved populations in countries where MSD operates.

Successful proposals will seek to expand access to quality health care via community-based solutions that reach populations that are historically underserved by the healthcare system. These populations include, but are not limited to:

• People displaced as a result of humanitarian crises or conflicts

• Indigenous populations

• People living in poverty

• People living in rural areas

• Migrant populations

• People who are from minoritized ethnicities

• People with diverse gender identities and/or sexual orientations

• People living with disabilities

Program Areas 

• The Solutions for Healthy Communities Program will consider grant applications that seek to impact access to health through one or more of the following ways:

• Empowering people and communities with health knowledge

• Designing and testing models of care that better meet the needs of underserved populations

• Strengthening and expanding the community healthcare workforce

• Building capacity of community health organizations

• Strengthening regional and national health systems

Funding Information

• Grants will cover two years of project implementation, and awards will range in size from $50,000 – $300,000 for two years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Non-profit organizations supporting communities within 50 miles of an MSD site will be prioritized. This includes countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Canada, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

• The following organizations or projects are not eligible for support:

• Projects that directly influence or advance the company’s business, including the purchase, utilization, prescribing, formulary position, pricing, reimbursement, referral or recommendation of or payment for its products

• Individuals (including travel support for individuals to attend meetings or conferences)

• For-profit organizations

• Political organizations, campaigns, and activities

• Fraternal or labor organizations and activities

• Religious organizations or groups whose activities are primarily sectarian in purpose

• Organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, religion, age, national origin, veteran’s status, or disability
For more information, visit MSD: https://www.msd.com/company-overview/sustainability/philanthropy/solutions-for-healthy-communities/