The Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program provides grants to advance leading edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations. ​​These populations include Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), the economically disadvantaged, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, rural populations, immigrant and refugee populations and other groups that encounter barriers to receiving quality care.

The HIC program seeks proposals for innovative, nursing-driven models of care that:

• Challenge conventional strategies for delivering and improving care to marginalized populations
  
• Demonstrate potential as a best-in-class intervention
• Narrow gaps in health equity
• Present strong preliminary evidence
• Show potential for broad replicability

Additional priority consideration will be given to proposals that include one or more of the following:

• Build trust and credibility in programs or systems of care
  
• Strong partnerships with community organizations
• Engagement of patients, caregivers, and communities in the design of the intervention
• Inter-sectoral, inter-agency, and multidisciplinary collaboration including
• investigators from different disciplines and investigators from diverse backgrounds or with diverse life experiences (e.g.,race/ethnicity, gender, class origin/first generation college, LGBTQ+, disability, national origin)
• Methodologies and metrics for advancing health equity
• Measurable goals and outcomes

Grant funds may be used for the following cost categories:

• Personnel
  
• Travel
• Consultants
• Direct Supplies
• Equipment (Please note, partial or full support for equipment may be requested. Funding for infrastructure will be limited.)
• Other research costs
• Sub-grants/ subcontracts
• Indirect costs: Please note: The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation will provide a limited amount of funding for indirect costs, based on the nature of the applicant organization, to a maximum of 15% of direct costs (above outlined items) of the project’s administered grant value. The sum of direct and indirect costs must equal the total grant amount awarded ($600,000).

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)