Letter of Interest Guidelines

Updated on 06/09/2025 at 1:20pm EST

The Grant Cycle is complete.

The 2025 Building Capacity for Health Advocacy grant cycle is complete, and all notifications have been sent to applicants.

Please know that we are no longer accepting applications in 2025. We’re taking this time to reflect, deepen relationships, and explore how we can build more opportunities for connection and learning across the field.

Option 1

LOI Meetings

1. You can schedule a 30-minute Zoom LOI interview with Rx staff between March 3rd and March 31st, 2025. The scribed notes from our conversation will serve as your LOI.

Option 2

Written LOI

2. You can submit a written LOI, following the guidelines outlined below, which must be received by March 31^st, 2025 by 5pm Eastern.

Learn more about why we’re offering this

After pilot testing a more human-centered approach to our LOI process last Fall, the Rx Foundation is offering an option to applicants to schedule a 30-minute meeting with Rx staff to describe your current capacity, goals, partners, and impact in an interview setting over Zoom.

We are offering this approach for a few reasons:

First, we hope this conversation-based approach will decrease your organization’s grant writing burden. In our pilot test of this approach, 43% of orgs shared it was easier than a traditional LOI, and 85% shared it was a positive experience for their organization and teams.

We like how this approach can make the application process more accessible for organizations with limited grant writing and development capacity. It will bring more uniformity to the process, with a set number of questions that all applicants answer in the same amount of time, as opposed to a more traditional model where the “best grant writing wins”.

In our pilot, we heard that this approach led to more cross-team collaboration, reflection, and discussion among the participating organizations. We value this as an opportunity to share grant “writing” responsibilities on a team and hope it is a helpful exercise for your team in articulating your goals, vision, and impact.

Finally, we enjoy a more human-centered and relationship-based approach, rather than receiving LOIs via a faceless inbox. We often learn important things in conversation that might otherwise be missed in a traditional written format.

We encourage you to consider the LOI meeting option (rather than a written submission) if it works well for you and your team. You can read more about the pilot participant’s experiences here, including quotes.

The Intend to Apply form, linked above, has a link to directly book a time via Calendly that works best for you and your team members. Please only book 1 slot per application; and include all individuals from your team who are best situated to answer the following questions. Multiple people from one team are welcome to attend and participate.

We understand that some people may prefer submitting a written LOI to sharing verbally. If you prefer NOT to have an LOI meeting with Rx staff, please follow these guidelines to submit an LOI in writing.

You can use this template or simply answer the questions in a word processing document, whichever is easiest.
Do not include any other details or information other than what is asked (e.g. we do not need paragraphs describing your mission, background, other programming, etc.).
Submissions should be no longer than 3 pages, in 12-point font, single-spaced.
Submit your LOI by March 31^st, 2025 by 5pm Eastern in PDF format by email to [email protected], with the subject line “Rx LOI Submission”.

The Questions

All applicants will be required to answer these four questions

Please briefly describe your current capacity, and the challenges you face.
What do you hope to build or expand with this grant? Please be specific with your plans (i.e. “we need to do [1, 2, 3,] to strengthen our capacity so that [NORTH STAR/END GOAL]”).
Please share with us a few key partners (1-3) in your work. How do you work together, and on what?
How will the increased capacity of your organization, coalition, or network positively impact both your work and your community?

Below is the rationale for each question we’re asking to provide you with more details on what we hope to learn from your organization.

Question Rationales

Question 1: Please briefly describe your current capacity, and the challenges you face.

We are trying to get a better understanding of your organization, coalition, or network’s capacity today. Where are there gaps, and what are the needs? What opportunities for advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement do you see, but you need deepened capacity to advance? Please be specific when naming the capacity needs or gaps that you see at the moment. The next question is focused on how you plan to address or fill those gaps.

Question 2: What do you hope to build or expand with this grant? Please be specific with your plans (i.e. “we need to do [1, 2, 3,] to strengthen our capacity so that [NORTH STAR/END GOAL]”).

We want to better understand your pragmatic plans for strengthening the people, organizations, and networks with this grant. What needs to be built or sustained to boost your advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement efforts over the long term? Please note that we are not asking how this will impact your advocacy, organizing, or civic engagement efforts yet; that is our last question. For this question, we are focused squarely on your specific activities under this capacity-building grant.

We’d like to better understand your role as an anchor or hub (if applicable), and the relationships you have with allied organizations. We want to learn the nature of your key partnerships and how you work together.

Question 4: How will the increased capacity of your organization, coalition, or network positively impact both your work and your community?

You’ve already shared with us the gaps/needs, and what you plan to do to build capacity. With this question, we are interested in better understanding how your plans will positively affect your advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement efforts and your broader community over the long-term. What will you be able to do with this boosted capacity? How will this grant change things for your organization, coalition, or larger network? Reflect on what will change.

We are not only interested in what is achievable in the short-term, we also want to better understand how your work will affect your community in the years to come. How will their lives be different in five or ten years from now?

For LOI Meetings

On the call, Rx staff will scribe notes in real-time in a shared Google document. After our call, you will receive instructions to review and edit this document for accuracy and final details within 5 business days, with the expectation that this should take no longer than 30 minutes. This edited document will serve as your LOI.

On the call, we suggest allocating your time to each question as follows:

Q1: 5 minutes
Q2: 5 minutes
Q3: 3-5 minutes
Q4: 3-5 minutes

For more details on how to best prepare for the call, information on our rescheduling policy, and more, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions.

Do you have a question about the process? Or wonder what we mean by a word like ‘grassroots’? Refer to our FAQ & Glossary pages!

FAQ

We answer frequently asked questions about the grant program, the application and review process.

View the FAQ

Glossary

We share language, definitions, and some insight about how we’re thinking about this work.

View the Glossary

Standards of Selection for all LOIs

LOIs will be evaluated on the following criteria:

The applicant has a clear and detailed analysis of what is needed to strengthen the capacity of their organization, coalition, or network
The applicant has a pragmatic plan of defined and achievable goals, strategies, and actions that will build the capacity or infrastructure to sustain on-the-ground advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement efforts.
The applicant is able to clearly connect how their goals will build capacity towards their long-term vision of health justice.
The applicant details how the proposed capacity-building will lead to meaningful advocacy, organizing, and civic engagement to improve health and healthcare.

FAQ

We answer frequently asked questions about the grant program, the application and review process.

View the FAQ

Glossary

We share language, definitions, and some insight about how we’re thinking about this work.

View the Glossary

Letter of Interest Guidelines

The Grant Cycle is complete.

As of 02/19/2025, there are no more Virtual LOI Meeting spots available. If you still intend to apply, please submit a Written LOI by March 31st at 5pm Eastern.

Option 1

LOI Meetings

1. You can schedule a 30-minute Zoom LOI interview with Rx staff between March 3rd and March 31st, 2025. The scribed notes from our conversation will serve as your LOI.

Option 2

Written LOI

2. You can submit a written LOI, following the guidelines outlined below, which must be received by March 31st, 2025 by 5pm Eastern.

The Questions

Question Rationales

Question 1: Please briefly describe your current capacity, and the challenges you face.

Question 2: What do you hope to build or expand with this grant? Please be specific with your plans (i.e. “we need to do [1, 2, 3,] to strengthen our capacity so that [NORTH STAR/END GOAL]”).

Question 3: Please share with us a few key partners (1-3) in your work. How do you work together, and on what?

Question 4: How will the increased capacity of your organization, coalition, or network positively impact both your work and your community?

For LOI Meetings

Do you have a question about the process? Or wonder what we mean by a word like ‘grassroots’? Refer to our FAQ & Glossary pages!

FAQ

Glossary

Standards of Selection for all LOIs

FAQ

Glossary

2. You can submit a written LOI, following the guidelines outlined below, which must be received by March 31^st, 2025 by 5pm Eastern.