2024 Restuccia Health Justice Fellowship Application

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BACKGROUND

The Restuccia Health Justice Fellowship (The Fellowship) is a program dedicated to supporting the growth and reach of diverse advocacy organizations and their leadership teams situated at the intersection of race equity, health justice, and organizational transformation. It honors the legacy and vision of Rob Restuccia, Community Catalyst's longtime and founding executive director.

At Community Catalyst, we have always believed that investing in community leadership is essential to progress. The Restuccia Health Justice Fellowship is designed to deepen that commitment, with an emphasis on supporting organizations of color. To date, 22 Fellows from all regions of the country have graduated from the program.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Since Community Catalyst launched the Fellowship in the fall of 2020, the program has been a significant part of our ability to grow into an even more trusted partner to hundreds of community-based organizations at the local, state, and national level–and to imagine how we can build power and unity together to advance a health system rooted in race equity and health justice.

The Fellowship's primary objective is to build the capacity of advocacy leaders and their organizations to reshape the health system, so it is reflective of and responsive to community wants and needs. To do this, we equip individual Fellows and their teams with the tools, resources, and teamwork they need to transform their organizations. From this, these organizations will be able to take greater strides toward race equity and health justice.

Community Catalyst is accepting applications from local, state, and national health advocates who are dedicated to pursuing a specific organizational transformation and deepening their practice toward race equity and health justice.

As part of their application, teams will need to submit at least one proposal for an organizational transformation goal they wish to pursue through the Fellowship, rooted in the Fellowship’s four guiding principles:

Leadership and Teamwork
Organizational Transformation
Powerful and Unique Partnerships
Leadership Through a Race Equity and Health Justice Lens

If chosen as a recipient of this fellowship the organization will also need to submit:

completed w9
bank wiring information
completed Fellowship budget excel (template to be shared)
IRS determination letter

A completed Application will include this form as well as a completed Fellow Applicant form from each of the three individuals applying as part of your organizational team.

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Eligibility Quiz

Are you a local, state, or national organization with a 501c (3) tax status, or do you have a fiscal sponsor with a 501c (3) tax status?

YesNo

The Fellowship consists of webinars, virtual meetings, assessments, and trainings totaling roughly 10-15 hours per month. Fellowship Teams participate in video conferences and peer-to-peer coaching sessions on the last Friday of every month (between 12 and 4:00 pm ET), with an occasional second session per month (approximately 5 hours per month. We will begin with a virtual welcome meeting on Friday, May 31, 2024. There will be two in-person meetings and ongoing one-on-one coaching. Please see the Fellowship FAQ for more details. Participation is required of all 3 team members throughout the entirety of the program. Does your organization and the 3 staff members chosen to participate in the Fellowship have the capacity to fulfill the following requirements throughout the grant period?

YesNo

Thank you

You are not eligible to apply for this funding.

Please note a complete application will include this organizational overview form and a completed Fellowship Applicant form from each of the three individuals applying as part of your organizational team.

Organizational Overview

Organization

Organization Website

Address of Organization

Annual Organizational Budget

If using a fiscal sponsor, please use your project size not that of the fiscal sponsor.

Fellowship Contact Name

Fellowship Contact Email

Authorized Signer Name for Subgrant Agreement

Authorized Signer Email for Subgrant Agreement

Organization Staff Size

10 and underBetween 10 and 50Between 50 and 100Over 100

Community Catalyst defines an organization of color (OOC) as an organization that fits the following criteria: 1) Those served: The organization is primarily focused on improving the lives of the communities of the following identities: Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Latino/a/e/x Arab/Arab American, MENA (Middle Eastern Northern African), African, Southeast Asian, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, immigrants, and/or any other identities of color not listed and their families; and 2) Mission: this is reflected in the organization’s mission, goals, and program activities; and, 3) Leadership: A majority (75%) of Leadership (board members, executive director, and senior management as defined by your organization) identify as members of the above-listed communities.

The program prioritizes organizations and leaders of color, inviting all interested leaders and diverse teams within local, state, and national health advocacy organizations to apply.

Based off of the above definition, does your Organization qualify as an organization of color?

Yes, the organization fits the above description. No, the organization does not fit the above description. The organization does not fit this exact description, but given the opportunity to explain, I believe my organization would be considered an organization of color.

Please use this space if you would like to add anything here regarding the above question.

Does your organization have at least 5 full time staff (full time can be inclusive of full-time, part-time, and/or volunteer role/roles)?

YesNo

Organizational Overview Cont.

Please keep these answers under or close to 250 words.

1. Please describe your organization's mission, vision, and (brief) history.

2. How is health a priority within your organization?

3. How does your organization advocate with/on behalf of communities? * Please include a description of the community you serve, including but not limited to the following demographics: race/ethnicity, class, gender, age, immigrant status, sexuality, disability, geography, etc.

4. The Fellowship consists of webinars, virtual meetings, assessments, and trainings totaling roughly 10-15 hours per month. Fellowship Teams participate in video conferences and peer-to-peer coaching sessions on the last Friday of every month (between 12 and 4:00 pm ET), with an occasional second session per month (approximately 5 hours per month. We will begin with a virtual welcome meeting on Friday, May 31, 2024. There will be two in-person meetings and ongoing one-on-one coaching. Please see the Fellowship FAQ for more details. Participation is required of all 3 team members throughout the entirety of the program.

Please describe the steps the organization would take to make time for the Fellowship and allow full participation.

Organizational Transformation

Please describe the organizational transformation you wish to focus on as part of the Fellowship. Examples of organizational transformation include but are not limited to strategic planning, board development, knowledge management, implementing human resources practices and policies, fundraising and development, launching a capital campaign, recruiting and retaining a more diverse staff, and/or implementing a racial justice framework. Why is now the time for this change? What challenges or burdens to successful implementation do you foresee, and how might you overcome them? Please include your board and executive leadership in your analysis. How will the transformation support race equity and health justice? How will your organizational transformation benefit the participants/community most directly impacted by your mission? Will people reflective of your organization's focus population be involved/engaged in the organizational transformation?

Commitment to Racial Equity and Health Justice

Please describe your organization's efforts towards race equity and/or health justice. Please include any internal and/or external efforts. Of these, what has created a challenge or hurdle for your organization? What has spurred positive change for your organization? How will the organizational transformation you outlined above support race equity?

Partnerships

Please describe your current partnerships. Who are your organization's typical partners? Who are organizations and/or stakeholders you would like to work with but have not yet been able to (for example, new national or local campaigns; faith-based partners; grassroots partners from new sub-populations or geographic areas; public officials from new levels of government such as city council or congress; advocates from a strategic intersectional issue area)? For your transformation, what types of partners/orgs might you need?

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