Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards 2027 (up to $100,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 24, 2026

Applications are open for the Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards 2027. The Innovation Awards program helps fill the funding hole within the below-resourced youngsters’s psychological well being sector by offering runway for recreation-altering concepts. They seed fund chosen nonprofits and elevate their work to different funders to assist unlock extra capital for revolutionary tasks within the youngsters’s psychological well being discipline. They additionally provide management studying alternatives to assist construct capability for nonprofits.

There are two award classes: the Innovation Awards that are open to all, and the Next Gen Innovation Awards that are open to nonprofits based and/or led by leaders below 32 years outdated, with greater than two years in operation.

Benefits

• Winners will obtain grants to pilot or scale their revolutionary work. In addition, they may obtain management coaching from business specialists, construct highly effective connections and lift their profile.
• Grants of $100,000 can be awarded to every Innovation Award winner and grants of $25,000 – $50,000 can be awarded to every Next Gen Innovation Award winner. 

Eligibility

• All registered 501(c)(3) public charities primarily based within the U.S. with an annual complete income below $5 million are eligible to apply to this system.
• Nonprofits with an annual complete income over $5 million should not eligible. 
• For the Next Gen class, the group will need to have a founder or chief below 32 years outdated and greater than two years in operation.

Selection Criteria

Applications are reviewed by a panel of specialists within the psychological well being and grantmaking fields and are evaluated primarily based on the equally weighted standards beneath:

• Innovation: Applications should current an ingenious resolution for addressing unmet wants in youngsters’s psychological healthcare, particularly amongst deprived and susceptible populations.
• Expertise: Applications ought to define executable companies knowledgeable and/or delivered by psychological well being professionals, highlighting any associated psychological well being experience and proof-primarily based fashions. 
• Impact: Applications ought to provide measurable deliverables aimed toward bettering the state of youngsters’s psychological wellbeing, with a transparent analysis mannequin and measurable outcomes.
• Potential: Applications will even be judged on the feasibility of replicating or scaling the proposed service to profit youngsters in broader communities.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards.