COVID RESPONSE TEXTING PROGRAM GRANTS

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, our country is in a time of significant risk. Health care providers are struggling, and communities are dealing with the economic and psychological impacts of essential public health measures including lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.

During this time, Public Results is opening a request for proposals for COVID Response Texting Grants to agencies and nonprofit organizations seeking to mitigate the impact of COVID via innovative large-scale texting programs. We will be selecting organizations doing this work to receive $10,000 worth of software access and consulting services. Our goal is to leverage our capacity to reduce the harm that this crisis will have on marginalized communities.

How Could Mass Texting Help Our Organization and Mission?

Example projects might include: sharing mask mandate or vaccine effectiveness and safety information, signing essential workers and seniors up for and confirming vaccine appointments, expanding the outreach for a domestic abuse hotline, providing information about food pantry availability to low-income citizens, or creating an anti-eviction SMS response.

Selected Organizations Will Receive

  • Consulting services to manage a text campaign

  • Data provisioning to legally secure a list of up to 100,000 relevant cell phone numbers (if needed)

  • Management of trained texters to engage in conversations via text

  • Design and execution of experiments to rigorously assess impact and scale funding

  • Assistance creating short code opt-in, website language, or other relevant collateral

Project Criteria

We invite all governments and nonprofit organizations to apply who are providing timely COVID-related:

  • Medical resources 

  • Public health information, or

  • Social services and safety net resources

APPLY NOW

Have a project that fits? Please take a few minutes to answer the questions below. The application deadline is February 17, 2021.

The application has now closed!