Opportunity Overview
Mecklenburg County Public Health is accepting applications for the Live Well Community Grants Program – FY 27, a competitive local public-health grant supporting grassroots, community, and faith-based organizations that implement programs focused on food security, chronic disease prevention, education, and management in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Funding
The official Euna Grants opportunity lists an award floor of $5,000 and an award ceiling of $15,000. The program is competitive, is not a capital grant, does not allow indirect costs, and lists no matching requirement.
Deadline and Submission
The controlling Mecklenburg County Public Health page states that applications must be submitted electronically through the linked online application by Friday, September 18, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. The official public page does not state a time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. The application is submitted through Mecklenburg County’s Euna Grants portal. An initial submission is final; later revised submissions will not be reviewed.
Eligibility
Applicants must conduct local work in Mecklenburg County, be volunteer-driven or have no more than 10 full-time paid staff, have a tax ID and nonprofit 501(c) status, and focus the proposed work on chronic disease prevention and education and food security. Funded work must serve underserved Mecklenburg County residents or the Public Health priority ZIP codes 28205, 28206, 28208, 28212, 28216, and 28217. Awardees must become active Mecklenburg County vendors within 30 days of receiving the grant award letter. The County FAQ also states that organizations already receiving Mecklenburg County Community Support Grants are not eligible for this grassroots program.
Allowable Activities and Costs
The program expressly funds tobacco prevention and cessation; healthy eating and nutrition; Type 2 diabetes prevention and management; heart disease and stroke prevention and management; cancer prevention; active living and obesity prevention; and preventive health screenings. Public guidance allows program supplies, advertising and promotion costs, small equipment purchases, facility rentals, certain administrative costs, staff training registrations or certifications related to the program, office supplies, and software licenses. Up to 10% of an awarded budget may be approved for specified upfront costs; otherwise the grant is reimbursement based.
The program does not fund staff time as a general cost, statewide or out-of-area work, lobbying or partisan activity, land or building acquisition, recreational activities, research studies, travel, gas, publication of books or reports, regranting, retroactive expenses, or cash and gift-card incentives.
Required Application Components and Post-Award Requirements
The public program page scores five application components: Cover Letter, Qualification Statement, Proposal Narrative, Proposal Performance Summary, and Budget Summary. The linked Euna Grants record is the controlling application interface. The public pages do not separately enumerate every upload or certification field in the live form, so applicants should verify all portal-controlled requirements before filing rather than assume additional attachments. Awardees must provide required insurance evidence, submit monthly invoices with receipts, provide monthly activity and outcome reports, comply with County financial-reporting requirements, and use required County acknowledgement materials.
Contact
The official Euna Grants listing identifies Keith Bailey Jr. as opportunity manager and lists MCPH-CommunityGrants@mecknc.gov and 980-314-9175 for the opportunity.
Atlas Fit Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 88/100. The opportunity is verified open, health-specific, clearly funded, has no required match, and directly supports preventive screening and chronic-disease programming in Mecklenburg County. Its small award ceiling and grassroots eligibility requirements narrow the practical applicant pool.
N9+ Fit Score: 64/100. A legitimate applicant-led role may exist in a clinically supervised screening or connected-care project because the program expressly supports preventive health screening, heart-disease and stroke prevention, software licenses, and small equipment purchases. The Nonagon N9+ device and platform can capture temperature, pulse rate, oxygen saturation, heart and lung sounds, and other remote physical-exam information through a connected workflow. However, the grant examples emphasize blood pressure, weight, A1c, education, and evidence-based chronic-disease strategies, and the N9+ does not itself measure all of those example screening metrics. Atlas therefore does not force a device-centered fit. Project-specific allowability and clinical workflow must be confirmed before any outreach package is created.
Dr. Miltie / QC Healthcare Direct-Applicant Review
Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not advanced as a direct applicant. Current eligibility requires a qualifying grassroots nonprofit organization conducting local Mecklenburg County work. Any Dr. Miltie role would need to be applicant-led and appropriately structured as an allowable technology or implementation partner.
Source Control
Controlling program page: Mecklenburg County Public Health Live Well Grants Program.
Official application listing: Euna Grants – Live Well Community Grants Program – FY 27.