Advancing Innovation

Health Care

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The Duke Endowment's Health Care investments primarily support projects that advance innovation when high-achieving, successful models for supporting hospitals and health care providers are lacking.

We define "advancing innovation" as developing and testing new approaches to outperform existing practices. The critical factor is improving performance.

We support two approaches to innovation:

• Pilots an innovation for the first time. For pilot projects, we prefer to test new approaches on a small scale in order to test key assumptions without major cost. These projects may function as beta tests for larger projects to follow.
• Builds on some measure of an innovative program's demonstrated success.

Eligibility examples
Applications in this category may include grants for evaluating new models or testing strategies to enhance a promising practice. Applicants should be prepared to answer the following question:

• How will the organization test the innovative
  approach(es)? Be prepared to state a hypothesis with defined assumptions.

These grants will be expected to undergo a rigorous evaluation that may include a small study (pilot) to test new approaches or build on existing programs or models in which promising evidence exists.

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Application Documents -- to be submitted

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• Application: Explain how your project will advance innovation.
• Budget: Itemize your revenue sources and related expenses for the project.

In addition to the application and budget form, grantees are requested to submit:

• a brief cover letter with CEO/President's signature--acknowledges that the information included in the application is complete and accurate
• Copy of your organization's IRS letter

Application Resources -- for reference

• User Guide: Understand Endowment objectives and effectively frame your application.
• Sample Application and Budget: Structure your application and budget information using this example, which is mirrored in the user guide.
• Grantmaking strategy overview: Learn about The Duke Endowments funding strategies.

Reporting Documents for Active Grants -- to be submitted

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• Annual Reports:
  • Report Form: Report on annual results, challenges and anticipated outcomes.
  • Budget Form: Report on annual revenue and related expenses.
• Final Reports:
  • Report Form: Report on project results, challenges and lessons learned.
  • Budget Form: Report on final revenue and related expenses.