Search Through Obesity Prevention Grants in the U.S.

Background

The Highmark Foundation is a private, charitable, organization of Highmark Inc. that supports initiatives and programs aimed at improving community health. The Highmark Foundation's mission is to improve the health, well-being and quality of life for individuals who reside in communities served by Highmark Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates. We fulfill our mission by awarding high impact grants.

Ideally, the Foundation seeks evidence-based programs that impact multiple counties, that achieve replicable long-term models, and that attract collaborative funding by community partners.

Foundation grants have been awarded to hospitals, community health centers, health service organizations, local community groups and government agencies committed to improving community health.

Our focus is health. The Foundation awards health-related programmatic grants to charitable organizations to implement evidence-based programs aimed at improving community health within Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Grant funding is used to support projects that:

• Are consistent with the Foundation’s goals, strategies and focus
• Demonstrate new and sustainable ways to solve health problems
• Illustrate the effectiveness of early intervention and preventive health

Funding Priority Areas

The Foundation awards grants in the area of health, defining health broadly to include social, behavioral and other dimensions beyond illness or disease. The Foundation focuses its grantmaking on four areas:

Chronic Disease

For more than a decade, the Foundation has funded chronic disease intervention and prevention programs for the most vulnerable populations in the region. By analyzing data from global, national, and statewide resources, the Foundation determines where it can make significant impact among populations by reducing the burden on both patients and health care providers.

One major example of the Foundation's leadership is its funding of community-based programs and services that have been created to reduce the effects of diabetes among minority populations. Through comprehensive, multilevel strategies, the Foundation has provided millions of dollars which grant these individuals easier access to diabetes prevention programs.

The Foundation has also supported national efforts—locally. For example, the Foundation was one of the first in the nation to fund an initiative known as Mission Lifeline. This is an initiative of the American Heart Association which advances the systems of care for patients who have experienced the most severe form of heart attack.

Data analysis of other chronic diseases, such as osteoporosis, certain types of cancer, asthma, and many others, are constantly being reviewed by the Foundation staff to determine significant impact opportunities with outcomes that are both measurable and achievable.

Funding Programs and Interventions that Address:

• Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Obesity

Family Health

Family health initiatives have been at the heart of many programs funded by the Highmark Foundation.

For five years, the Foundation's Highmark Healthy High 5 initiative focused on five areas that ultimately impacted family health: physical activity, nutrition, bullying, self-esteem and grieving. Many of the programs funded were not just aimed at children, but incorporated the entire family unit.

Childhood obesity and bullying remain major public health concerns for the nation and the region, and will remain critical issues for the Foundation. To that end, the Foundation is continuing to fund school and community-based programs that directly impact these issues and bring about positive change for children's physical and mental well-being.

The Foundation also funds programs in the area of maternal health, such as the doula pregnancy programs, walk-in clinics for uninsured and underinsured women, and parenting education classes. For the region's senior population, the Foundation funds programs that provide senior access to home health or palliative care, as well as routine health screenings and interventions.

Funding Programs and Interventions that Address:

• Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Adolescent Health
• Maternal Health
• Senior Care
• Mental Health

Service Delivery Systems

Serving a diverse geographic area that encompasses urban and rural populations presents a unique set of challenges. However, despite the differences in these settings, gaining access to quality health care is a challenge for many individuals in both. In urban settings, there is a lack of health care providers, but the underinsured or uninsured often lack the resources to gain access. In rural settings, the situation is even worse. There are very few health care providers available, and those that are available may not have the capacity to serve the underinsured or uninsured populations.

During the past decade, the Foundation has funded many programs across the region to help underserved and uninsured populations gain access to quality and, in some cases, free health care. This is most evident in the area of dental care and oral health, in which the Foundation, through a series of grants, allowed more patients to gain access to quality dental care.

The Foundation has also provided grants to help organizations hire and recruit health care professionals. It has funded millions of dollars in grants to address the nursing shortage in Pennsylvania. In fact, approximately 5,000 nursing students, nurses, medical students, residents, first responders and nursing faculty have benefited from Foundation funding.

Finally, the Foundation has provided grants to organizations planning to invest in new capital and technologies that will better serve their local population. By providing funding for capital expenditures at locations such as Federally Qualified Health Clinics (FQHC), nonprofit organizations, and community hospitals, the Foundation allows these facilities the ability to serve more patients.

Funding Programs that Address:

• Access to Care
• Recruitment of Healthcare Professionals
• Community Health Clinics
• Screenings

About Us

Sweeping cuts to school and community athletics have drastically limited opportunities for youth, especially in low-income communities. Importantly, participation in sports prevents childhood obesity and has also been linked to reducing school dropout rates, gang participation, teen pregnancy and other high-risk behaviors, all of which pose tremendous consequences to our society.

MaxInMotion® is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to providing young athletes an opportunity to compete at both the recreational and competitive levels in major youth sports. The Foundation provides financial support directly to youth sports organizations throughout the states of Arizona and California, to help underwrite inclusion in sports programs of financially challenged boys and girls who would not otherwise be able to participate. MaxInMotion® also develops programs to include special needs populations in youth sports activities. The Foundation embraces the philosophy that youth sports contribute dramatically to character development and personal fitness, and that team participation helps establish values of community, interdependency and collective responsibility.

Maxinmotion Grants

MaxInMotion provides financial support to help underwrite the costs associated with inclusion of financially challenged boys and girls who would not otherwise be able to participate in sports programs. MaxInMotion® also provides financial assistance for the development of programs to include special needs populations in youth sports activities.

Due to a high volume of requests, MaxInMotion® is able to assist only a limited number of select organizations.

Focusing on a small group of clearly defined program areas allows us to invest for the long-term and develop strategies for contributing to lasting change.

Within each focus area we identify organizations that match the Foundation’s objectives and have developed a clear path to achieving excellent results. Whether it’s a small project with some risk or a large, well-established organization, we view the work as a partnership, which enables us to build meaningful relationships with an organization’s board and staff. This relationship-based approach allows us to offer many forms of support — not just financial — and to solicit feedback from our grantees and from voices in the communities where we serve.

• College Access and Success
  • The Foundation supports organizations that broaden access to and improve success in higher education for students from low income families. We fund college preparation and retention programs as well as policy initiatives that eliminate systemic barriers to help students, often the first in their families, gain admission to and complete college.
• Health
  • Diabetes & Obesity Prevention, Land Use & Parks
    • We work with organizations that enhance community health through smart land use, park development, policy work and community engagement in under-resourced neighborhoods — all with the goal of increasing physical activity to combat type 2 diabetes and obesity.
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
    • We support research efforts of early-career scientists who are investigating Alzheimer’s disease causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatments. Recognizing the challenges of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, the Foundation also funds organizations that provide innovative and creative supports for family caregivers.
• Israel
  • In Israel the Foundation is focused on education/college access as well as economic/workforce development to help disadvantaged communities improve their lives both economically and socially. To strengthen all of Israel, the Foundation recognizes the need to support all populations, including secular and Orthodox Jews, Ethiopian-Israelis, Christians, Arabs and Bedouins.
• Arts Education
  • Extending Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert’s deep connection to the arts, the Foundation supports education and outreach programs at museums, community-based organizations, schools and media outlets. The programs increase equal access to the arts and expose under-served students to dance, drama, music and visual arts, helping them to develop an appreciation for the arts as well as academic and life skills in school and in their personal and social lives.
• Jewish Life
  • Building on the interests of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert, the Foundation supports core organizations in the Los Angeles Jewish community that cultivate tolerance, Jewish culture and education. In addition, we support innovative organizations addressing the needs of the next generation of young adults looking for alternative ways of creating Jewish life and identity. Though many of the programs educate and respond to the needs of both Jews and non-Jews, the organizations base their work on the Jewish tenet of repairing the world through social action.
• UC Berkeley and UCLA
  • The Foundation supports a variety of academic programs at UC Berkeley and UCLA in addition to endowed Chairs and research projects that intersect with our objectives and long-term strategy.
• Special Projects
  • From time to time we discover important projects that are aligned with the Foundation’s priorities but may not fit into our primary focus areas.

Salad Bars to Schools

Salad Bars to Schools (SB2S) is a granting program that provides schools and districts with salad bar equipment and support, including Cambro salad bars, camchillers, and technical assistance.

Salad Bars to Schools (SB2S) launched in 2010 with the mission of donating salad bars to U.S. schools so that every child has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables. This healthy school lunch initiative was a partnership founded by the Chef Ann Foundation, National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, United Fresh Start Foundation, and Whole Foods Market in support of Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative.

To ensure the continued success of each new salad bar, as well as to provide additional technical assistance and resources to grantees, all new applicants to the Salad Bars to Schools (SB2S) grant program will be eligible to receive two free enrollments (for two individuals) for The School Food Institute’s Salad Bars in Schools course. Starting March 17th, any district or school that submits an application will need to complete this online course after submitting their application and before they receive their salad bar(s). We are grateful to our program partners and supporters for making this fee-based course available to grantees at no cost.

Our Goal

Providing healthy eating opportunities for kids in schools is imperative. Today, the U.S. has more than 38,000,000 primary school children, and according to data from The Center for Disease Control and Prevention:

• Obesity prevalence among children and adolescents has almost tripled since 1980.
• Approximately 17% (12.5 million) of children and adolescents ages 2 – 19 years are obese.
• Obese children and adolescents have a greater risk of social and psychological problems, such as discrimination and poor self-esteem.
• Obese children are more likely to become obese adults. Adult obesity is associated with a number of serious health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.
• One out of every three Caucasian children and one out of every two Hispanic and African American children born in the year 2000 will contract diabetes in their lifetime.

Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child—from elementary school, to middle school, to high school—has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.

Background

Inspiring, empowering and uplifting women and girls

In 1993, a group of 106 women came together with one goal in mind – to make a difference in the lives of local women and girls. Seeing a need for funding to support programs that empower this population, the women each gave $1,000 to start the Women’s Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation.

Three decades later, the Women's Endowment Fund has grown to more than $5.2 million, thanks to the generosity of donors who are committed to the advancement of local women and girls, including members of the fund's Circle of Empowerment. To date, the Women's Endowment Fund has awarded nearly $2.5 million in grants to programs that uplift, empower, and educate women and girls throughout Akron and all of Summit County. The fund's biennial forum helps define the Women's Endowment Fund's grantmaking priorities, which include health and wellness, safety from violence, and economic empowerment.

The Women’s Endowment Fund encourages the advancement of Summit County women and girls and their growth as philanthropists.

Current Funding Priorities

• Economic empowerment for local women and girls:
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Building assets
  • Financial literacy
  • Workforce development
  • Enabling mothers to work productively
• Safety from violence:
  • Domestic violence
  • Sexual assault
  • Childhood sexual abuse
  • Raising awareness/preventing violence
  • Developing a coordinated response to violence
• Health & Wellness:
  • Awareness, education, prevention
  • Mental health
  • Reproductive health
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Access to treatment
  • Obesity prevention/control
  • Nutrition & physical fitness

Indian River County United Way Grants

United Way of Indian River County will begin accepting Letters of Intent in our Financial Stability and Health Impact Areas through the Community Impact Fund. The Community Impact Fund was established to invest in high-performing nonprofit organizations that provide programs and services aligned with our strategic priority Impact Areas of Education, Financial Stability, and Health. Grant funding recipients help to improve community conditions across our county.

UWIRC functions on a 2-year funding cycle and is currently open to organizations providing services to Indian River County residents and must measure participant progress based on outcomes and indicators established by UWIRC Priority Areas:

Financial Stability

• Basic Needs
  • All people have access to an adequate supply of nutritious food.
  • All people have safe sustainable housing.
• Stabilization/Manageable Expenses
  • Individuals have the financial resources and assets to avoid a financial crisis.
• Family Sustaining Employment & Workforce Skill Development
  • All people who want to work have the skills and resources they need to seek, gain, and maintain employment.
  • Lower-income working families and individuals achieve and retain life-sustaining employment.

Health

• Improved physical and mental health:
  • All people have access to services to improve their physical and mental health in the areas of healthy weight, physical, oral, and behavioral health (inclusive of mental health and substance use symptoms) and have the ability to live independently.
• Improved quality of life for mothers, infants and children
  • Families will have resources and access to services in the areas of children’s oral health, child abuse prevention, perinatal care, children’s behavioral health (inclusive of mental health and substance abuse symptoms), and childhood obesity.

Since 1924, The Duke Endowment has worked to help people and strengthen communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits.

Program Area: Health Care

The Duke Endowment believes that maintaining health over time is dependent on a person’s ability to lead a healthy lifestyle and access essential health care services. We support reforms that ensure an individual’s basic medical and social needs are met, so they can enjoy the best health possible.

Challenge

Despite advances in medicine and care delivery, significant health disparities exist based on race, gender, insurance status, income and where someone lives. Affecting and sustaining systemic change requires innovation, evidence building and collaboration between health care providers and other sectors.

Approach

We work as an innovating partner with local, state and national stakeholders to identify, test and spread innovative models that improve health and promote health equity. We know that the transformations we seek are complicated and will take time.

Our Focus

We aim to improve the health of Carolinians by exploring how integrated health systems can partner with other stakeholders in their communities, reduce barriers to care and promote healthy behaviors. We want to reduce inequities that have been exacerbated by factors including race, income and where a person lives.

Funding Priorities 

Access to Care for Vulnerable Populations

Access to essential health care services is critical to good health, yet vulnerable populations in the Carolinas face a variety of barriers. We are interested in supporting access-expanding projects for underserved populations such as racial minorities and rural residents. Health Care also funds 30 AccessHealth networks (by invitation only) to increase access to essential services for low-income uninsured adults. 

Maternal and Infant Health

Significant health disparities fuel poor maternal and infant health outcomes for women of color and women in rural communities. Health Care will support evidence-based programs and models that prioritize reducing health disparities and improving maternal and infant health outcomes.

Mental Health

Research has shown that early identification and treatment of mental health conditions can significantly improve overall health and well-being. The Endowment is interested in supporting models of care that increase access to quality mental health services and prevention programs with a specific emphasis on pediatric mental health care.

Oral Health

Millions of adults and children do not receive essential oral health services each year, leading to poor health outcomes and lower quality of life. To broaden access to care and reduce oral health disparities in children, The Duke Endowment is helping school-based oral health programs (by invitation only) expand, including investments in advocacy and policy reform efforts.

Population Health

Research suggests environmental factors and personal behaviors carry a far more significant impact on population health outcomes than clinical care. These social determinants of health hold the keys to addressing America’s high rates of obesity and chronic disease. Our Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas initiative uses regional community coalitions to help address these upstream drivers of health. 

Workforce Development

Given the many efforts underway to improve population health and reduce disparities in health outcomes, there is a need for a community-based workforce that serves as a liaison between health care, social services, and the community, including individuals with lived experience, such as community health workers.

Funding Opportunity Description

The ADDF seeks to support precision prevention studies, combination therapy studies, and comparative effectiveness research that probe whether the use or choice of interventions may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. Studies that are not in humans will not be considered.Clinical Populations of Interest:

 Primary Prevention

Primary Prevention studies include people without biomarker evidence of dementia pathology or dementia symptoms but who have specific risk factors for dementia. Relevant risk factors include: APOE4 genotype, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, depression, obesity, hearing loss, vision loss, traumatic brain injury, postoperative delirium, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, menopause-related cognitive dysfunction, and others.

Secondary Prevention

Secondary Prevention studies include people with biomarker evidence of dementia pathology who do not yet have dementia symptoms. Biomarker evidence may include PET amyloid positivity, CSF biomarkers, or blood biomarkers indicating dementia pathology. Subjects may have specific risk factors for dementia, including APOE4 genotype, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, depression, obesity, hearing loss, vision loss, traumatic brain injury, postoperative delirium, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, menopause-related cognitive dysfunction, and others.

The Prevention RFP Supports:

Precision Prevention and Risk Reduction: In July 2024, the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care reported that 45% of dementia cases may be prevented by fully addressing 14 modifiable risk factors. These modifiable risk factors include diabetes, hypertension, high LDL cholesterol, obesity, physical inactivity, depression, traumatic brain injury, hearing loss, vision loss, and others.

Dementia risk reduction through Precision Prevention can be achieved with a targeted, mechanism-specific preventative intervention in specific populations who are at risk for developing dementia due to these risk factors and/or genetic risk factors, such as APOE4, as well as other medical conditions linked to dementia risk, including postoperative delirium/cognitive decline, menopause-related cognitive symptoms, chemotherapy-induced decline, and long COVID-19.

The ADDF will consider funding programs that target and treat people with specific risk factors with the goal of modifying their dementia risk, as measured by outcomes related to dementia (e.g., cognitive function, neuroimaging outcomes, fluid biomarkers, and others). While interventions that are limited to lifestyle modifications alone (e.g., diet, exercise, etc.) will not be considered, studies combining a risk factor-targeted medication and/or supplement with lifestyle interventions can be considered (see “Combination Therapy Studies”).

Methods may include randomized controlled trials or epidemiologic studies. Long-term follow-up studies of successfully completed prevention clinical trials will also be considered. For clinical trial proposals, please see below detailed instructions and priorities under “Expectations and Evaluation.”

 Combination Therapy Studies: Combination therapies are the standard of care for the treatment and prevention of many diseases of aging. While individual interventions may have only incremental benefits, the combination of two or more drugs targeting multiple risk factors or mechanisms related to the biology of aging may exert synergistic effects on outcomes related to dementia risk (e.g., cognitive function, neuroimaging outcomes, fluid biomarkers, and others). Randomized controlled studies testing a combination therapy of two or more agents (novel drugs, repurposed drugs, or supplements) or a combination product (containing two or more active substances within a single pharmaceutical or supplement form) will be considered. Studies combining a medication and/or supplement with lifestyle interventions will also be considered.

Comparative Effectiveness Research: For many medical conditions, physicians have a choice of prescribing clinically equivalent drugs. Some of these drugs are being investigated for repurposing to treat Alzheimer's or related dementias, due to potential disease-modifying properties that go beyond the treatment of their approved disease indication. The ADDF will consider funding research to test whether one or more clinically equivalent drugs of medical conditions is superior in protecting from Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias. Priority will be given to studies that fill a gap in literature and knowledge. Methods may include randomized controlled trials or epidemiology. For clinical trial proposals, please see below detailed instructions and priorities under “Expectations and Evaluation.” For epidemiological studies, those utilizing quality data from large sample sizes with detailed information on patient characteristics and relevant outcomes will be prioritized. Pooling or meta-analyzing data from multiple cohorts may also be appropriate, such as through leveraging the Cohorts for Alzheimer’s Prevention Action (CAPA).Type of therapy:

Novel, repurposed, and repositioned drugs, as well as natural products, supplements, and devices will be considered. The ADDF prioritizes studies of interventions with composition of matter intellectual property (IP), concrete strategies to develop novel IP, and/or a promising commercial path forward. Studies combining medications and/or supplements with lifestyle interventions will be considered. Lifestyle interventions (e.g., non-pharmacologic interventions, such as diet, meditation, and exercise) that are not combined with a study drug will not be considered.Drug mechanisms or modes of action: Mechanisms and modes of action that target dementia risk reduction or biology of aging are considered high priority. These include, but are not limited to:

• Metabolic and mitochondrial function
• Vascular function
• Inflammation
• Neuroprotection
• Epigenetics
• Proteostatsis
• Synaptic activity and neurotransmitters
• Other mechanisms and modes of action related to the biology of aging (e.g. senescent cells)
• Other novel mechanisms or modes of action that are supported by compelling evidence demonstrating a rational biological connection to dementia risk or onset
• Please note: Anti-amyloid approaches (e.g., anti-amyloid aggregation, beta-amyloid vaccines, beta- or gamma-secretase inhibitors) and cholinesterase inhibitor proposals will not be considered

Alliance Healthcare Foundation

We believe that all people have a personal desire and basic human right to be well. We define wellness as a state of complete physical, mental, spiritual, economic and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Society, structural systems, community, neighborhood, and family are collectively responsible for creating an environment of health and wellness. Wellness is personal and not the same for everyone. 

Alliance Healthcare Foundation (AHF) works to advance health and wellness for people who face significant barriers to better health. We do this in San Diego & Imperial counties through collaborative funding, convening and advocacy.

i2 Innovation Initiative

With our Innovation Initiative (i2), also referred to as “venture philanthropy,” Alliance Healthcare Foundation (AHF) seeks promising innovation to transform the current health paradigm of high cost and poor outcomes to improve quality, increase capacity, and reduce costs for the most systemically marginalized and under-resourced populations in San Diego and/or Imperial counties.

Solving our most intractable health challenges requires innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions. AHF seeks market-based and/or transformational systems-change solutions with the potential to improve access, quality, and health outcomes for low-income residents in San Diego.

One of the most efficient ways we can support population health improvement is by helping innovations succeed, scale, and achieve sustainability.

Examples of Closing Disparities Gaps (not exhaustive):

• Chronic condition prevention and/or management (diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular)
• Access to health and wellness for those without broadband connectivity, transportation, health literacy, language fluency
• Opportunity for wealth building at lowest income levels
• Access to mental and behavioral health care for the under- and uninsured

Funding

We recognize the time commitment that i2 applicants will be making to participate in the i2 Journey culminating in the final pitch in October 2025. To assist applicants with completing their Journey, AHF will be providing grant funding in the last two phases of the Journey as follows:

• Phase 2 (up to 10 applicants) – $5,000 per applicant to support the applicant’s Phase 2 validation process
• Phase 3 (up to 5 finalists) – $20,000 per applicant to support the applicant’s Phase 3 building process

The applicant selected for the Innovation Initiative (i2) $1 Million Milestone-based Challenge Grant (the “Challenge Grantee”) will be announced in November 2025.

Women's Giving Circle Grant Program

The WGCJC makes grants annually to organizations that have the greatest potential to help the women and children of Jefferson County, Indiana. The Grants Sub-Circle reviews applications and provides grant recommendations to the general membership, which then votes on the recommendations at the annual meeting/dinner in the Spring. Grants are focused on the following four fields of interest, with the specific purpose of benefitting women and/or children:

Education

Educational attainment is closely correlated to one’s economic success and well-being. Examples of initiatives might include:

• programs that prepare children to enter school ready to learn or programs delivering quality after-school/summer academic or enrichment experiences;
• literacy programs for children or parents;
• efforts to ensure students’ graduation from high school;
• efforts to address life skills and/or job skills for adult women

Economic Empowerment

Many factors influence women’s abilities to achieve financial independence. Among them are workforce participation, earnings, and education attainment. Examples of possible initiatives include:

•  programs for women business owners to ensure the growth and success of their firms;
• efforts that encourage women and/or youth to pursue non-traditional career opportunities;
• programs enhancing women and/or children’s personal financial management, budgeting, saving, and investing

Physical and Mental Health

The majority of factors that contribute to the health and well-being of women and children are lifestyle related, but problems may be exacerbated by inadequate access to quality, affordable healthcare services. Examples of possible initiatives might include:

• programs improving access to prenatal care and risk reduction for pregnant women/girls;
• programs providing physical and mental health information to women and children;
• nutrition and health education programs to address issues such as obesity and/or eating disorders;
• programs addressing issues that lead to substance abuse among women and children

Violence and Crime Prevention

Women and children experience many forms of violence. In addition to the immediate results of victimization, there are often longer-term impacts. Victimization often plays a role in delinquent and criminal behavior. Examples of possible initiatives might include:

• programs promoting healthy child/parent interaction in order to prevent child abuse and neglect;
• programs addressing issues that lead to spousal and child abuse;
• programs for women and children who have been victims of violence and crime;
• gender-specific intervention services to address the increasing number of females incarcerated in the criminal justice system

About Us

We are San Antonio's community foundation.

We provide a simple, powerful and highly personal approach to giving—so your gifts impact the community, forever. We contribute to the community through grants and scholarships. We help nonprofits further and strengthen their mission, and we provide leadership for key community issues. We're in the business of building community.

We offer benefits to help you create a philanthropic legacy.

Since 1964, the Area Foundation has distributed millions in grants and scholarships to educate youth, preserve the environment, protect animals, fund research and provide services that enhance the quality of life for people living in and around San Antonio.

San Antonio Area African American Community Fund Grant

Vulcan Materials Corporation provided a donation to support The San Antonio Area African American Community Fund (SAAAACF) grants program. SAAAACF is an outreach fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation. SAAAACF may award up to $25,000 total in grants for all applications received and approved for funding. SAAAACF expects to award grants in the amounts that will serve its mission and have the community impact desired. A maximum of one application can be submitted for each nonprofit organization.

Focus Areas

Arts/Culture

The history and culture of a community can be remembered, preserved and shared with others through various forms of artistic expression that celebrate, inspire and enlighten. The Fund will consider programs and initiatives that present the uniqueness of African American arts, and promote and preserve the rich and diverse African American cultural traditions in an educational, informational, inclusive and entertaining manner.

HealthThe general health and well-being of the African American community is paramount to its perpetuity. The Fund will support programs that traverse the intervention continuum, including education and awareness, prevention and planning, and programs that provide access to holistic care, including both physical and mental health. The Fund is especially concerned with heart disease/stroke, diabetes, obesity, Sickle Cell Anemia, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, and other maladies and conditions that disproportionately affect the African American community.People In NeedThe social well-being and the development of human capital are of great significance to the perpetuation of the African American community. The Fund is committed to supporting programs that address critical issues and concerns that significantly affect the African American community, such as poverty, access to care/resources, abuse/neglect, teen pregnancy and family preservation. EducationAn educated community is a prerequisite for economic and social success. The Fund is committed to supporting programs that advance the value and importance of education, enlighten and engage African Americans in business, political and community sectors where they are typically underrepresented and foster and develop a diverse network of African American leaders in the San Antonio area. The Fund will also support programs that celebrate, nurture and develop African American youth.YouthThe fostering and development of our youth is critical to the African American Community. The Fund is committed to programs that provide opportunities for youth to expand their horizons and engage them with role models. 

Health and Environmental Justice

This new grant area combines two of the Foundation’s old grant areas including Healthy Communities and Environment. Within Health and Environmental Justice, we recognize that your health is influenced by where you are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age. We know that improving health outcomes requires an approach that supports a whole person within their community. Data shows us that there are differences in the environments within which residents live across our region. 

• Waterbury has the highest live birth rate and highest infant mortality rate in Connecticut.
• Access to prenatal care varies by community. In Waterbury over 18% of pregnant women received late or no prenatal care, this number increases for Black and Latina mothers.
• Children in Waterbury are disproportionately affected by asthma. Slightly more than 21% have been diagnosed with asthma compared to the 15% in Connecticut and 13.4% in the nation.
• In 2016, out of cities with at least, 100,000 residents, Waterbury had the highest eviction rate in the Northeast and it is the 22nd highest in the nation.
• 43% of residents in the Foundation’s region who make $15,000 or less report not having enough money to buy food for their families

Our approach focuses on:

• Supporting programs, advocacy and system change efforts that address health disparity
• Increasing access to safe and affordable housing
• Improving food systems to ensure access and affordability
• Improving health systems to ensure access, culturally responsive practices, and affordability
• Applying an Environmental Justice lens to projects that seek to clean up land, air and neighborhoods in order to positively impact health

Efforts we support include:

• Collaborations that improve access to basic needs (such as food and housing) and to preventative health care especially for BIPOC residents
• Evidence-based prevention and chronic disease management programs for diabetes, obesity, tobacco use, asthma, mental health first aid, and falls
• Housing advocacy efforts that address high eviction rates, safe housing (lead abatement) and affordability in Waterbury
• Expanding access to behavioral health and substance abuse interventions, especially in multi-lingual and rural communities
• System improvements that support increased access to medical and behavioral health services (such as transportation and telehealth)
• Efforts to advocate for environmental justice in Waterbury and work toward reducing environmental disparities across communities.

2021 Focus on Racism and Health

Hillman Innovations in Care Program

The Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) Program was established in 2014 to advance innovative, nursing-driven models of care that target the health and healthcare needs of groups and communities who have historically struggled against oppression, discrimination and indifference. These populations include Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), the economically disadvantaged, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, low-income rural populations, and others.

This year the HIC program is issuing a special call for submissions that address racism and its impact on health. Racism has been, and remains, the root cause of serious health inequities that unjustly affect communities of color. These disparities include increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, obesity and mental illness; inequitable access to high quality care; inordinately negative outcomes such as infant and maternal mortality rates for Black mothers and babies that are twice as high as those for white populations, and life expectancy that can be as much as ten years shorter than white counterparts living a short drive away. 

The disproportionate harm of the COVID-19 pandemic in Black, Indigenous and other communities of color and police killings as part of a long history of police brutality are other manifestations of structural racism and societal inequities. Addressing and dismantling racism in its myriad forms—structural, interpersonal, and institutional—is a critical and constructive approach to advancing health equity and improving population health.

Goals

The goal of the HIC program is to advance leading-edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and health care of vulnerable populations, including the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ people, the homeless, rural populations, and other groups that encounter barriers to accessing health-care services.

We seek bold, creative, patient- and family-centered approaches that challenge conventional strategies, improve health outcomes, lower costs, and enhance patient and family caregiver experience.

Program Priorities

The 2021 HIC program seeks proposals for bold, nursing-driven interventions that:

• Seek to mitigate the effects of racism on health and/or narrow gaps in health equity
• Identify and address sources of racism that affect health
• Challenge conventional strategies for delivering and improving care to populations affected by racism 
• Build trust and credibility in programs or systems of care
• Are informed by anti-racism practices
• Present strong preliminary evidence
• Show potential for broad replicability

The Foundation seeks proposals that address the health care needs of the vulnerable populations in the following areas:

• Maternal and child health
• Care of the older adult
• Chronic illness management

 Types of Proposals

• The adaptation of proven nursing-driven models to new or expanded settings or patient populations. The adaptation should be past the pilot phase and demonstrate significant preliminary evidence.
• The expansion of emerging nursing-driven models with early evidence suggesting a strong likelihood for achieving Triple Aim-like outcomes on a broad scale.

All proposals must address the potential for:

• Improving health, lowering costs, and enhancing patient and caregiver experience
• Scalability
• Sustainability

Grant Awards

The program will award two grants of up to $600,000 each, distributed over a 36-month period.

Healthy & Thriving Communities

Improve health equity and well-being in Broward by building a culture of health across all populations and communities, while also creating a resilient and sustainable environment.

Why It Matters

Community plays a vital role in every aspect of our lives. Healthy and growing communities represent the very essence of sustainability – optimal health results from positive physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social support. Community members who can rely on each other and work together toward fulfilling those supports are healthier, stronger and better equipped for success overall. Because of this collective support, communities flourish.

Health gov’s “Healthy People 2030” report outlines five social determinants of health (SDOH) domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. These factors significantly impact health, well-being and quality of life. Negative impacts on SDOH contribute to various health disparities and inequities. For example, limited access to healthy food within a community can increase the prevalence of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. In this situation, an inadequately built environment impedes the effectiveness of health messaging promoting positive behavior change because the opportunity to adopt those healthier behaviors comes with barriers to success. Leaders with the power to enforce change are crucial in turning the curve on factors influencing SDOH for Broward residents.

The 2022 Healthiest Communities rankings from U.S. News & World Report scores population health in terms of access to care, healthy behaviors, health conditions, mental health and resulting health outcomes. Broward County’s overall population health score was 59 out of 100. In the food and nutrition category, Broward scored 64% for the availability and use of healthy foods and the prevalence of chronic diseases linked to poor nutrition. According to the Broward County 2023 Community Health Needs Assessment, 20.8% of Broward County adults found it “very” or “somewhat” difficult to access affordable fresh fruits and vegetables. However, there is a higher average disparity rate of 31.5% among female respondents, young adults, low-income respondents and Black and Caribbean residents.

Additionally, when measuring the environmental health of natural surroundings in our county (air and water quality, access to parks and natural amenities, and environmental risks), Broward scored worse at 25%, down 15% from 2021. Projects addressing ecological factors like using solar panels (to create more energy-efficient homes and businesses) and planting inland trees (to increase greenery, counter rising temperatures, and provide cleaner air) are necessary to cultivate healthy and thriving communities.

What We Are Looking For

The Community Foundation of Broward supports programs and initiatives for healthy communities across Broward that achieve better outcomes in all areas of health and environmental education and sustainability across all populations and age groups.

Physical Health‍

• Create social and physical environments that promote and improve good health outcomes for all ages.
• Provide structured physical activity that is easily accessible to residents and addresses chronic disease prevention and intervention.
• Create programs that will reduce health disparities, promote health literacy and health equity.

Mental Health‍

• Reduce stigma regarding mental health and normalize seeking help and self-care.
• Increase access to mental health services in low-income communities.
• Provide innovative outlets and resources for continued mental health support.

Food and Nutrition

• Reduce household food insecurity and hunger.
• Promote healthy eating habits that inspire residents to take charge of their health.
• Build long-term capacity of communities to increase access to fresher, more nutritious food supplies.

Environmental Education and Sustainability

• Promote environmental health programs and interventions.
• Reduce the amount of toxic pollutants released into the environment.
• Support habitat protection, coastal resilience, water quality, energy efficiency, environmental outreach and more.
• Raise awareness about climate change and encourage actions for making our community more resilient.

About Us

Adventist HealthCare, based in Gaithersburg, Md., is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization of dedicated professionals who work together each day to improve the health and well-being of people and communities through a ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

Community Partnership Fund

Adventist HealthCare is committed to addressing the needs of the communities we serve. Through our Community Partnership Fund (CPF), we provide funding to organizations whose work promotes health equity and wellness in our community.

Funding Priorities

Our Community Partnership Fund Funding Priorities will focus on significant needs identified through our Community Health Needs Assessment.

To be eligible for funding, requests must align with at least one of the three areas below:

• Access to Care: Expand access to comprehensive healthcare and wellness services
  • Programs addressing access to primary care and specialty care, including mental and behavioral health
  • Programs addressing low-income, uninsured, and underinsured populations
• Healthy Behaviors: Encourage individuals to engage in healthy behaviors
  • Programs enabling access to and completion of preventive and early-detection health screenings
  • Programs addressing food insecurity, obesity, and physical inactivity
  • Programs addressing chronic disease prevention and management, specifically for diabetes and heart disease
• Education, Income, & Workforce: Build equitable communities
  • Programs addressing educational inequities (e.g., kindergarten readiness, high school completion or college preparation)
  • Programs supporting attainment of employment with a livable wage (e.g., pipeline programs, career coaching and mentorship)
  • Programs that address housing stability, quality, and safety (e.g., creating safe living conditions and assisting individuals exiting homelessness)

Program Grants

Amounts more than $5,000.

The Berrien Community Foundation's "For Good" Grants

The “For Good” Grants will be open for two cycles per year and will be available in two sizes:

• the "For Good" Major, ($1,501-$15,000)
• the "For Good" Minor, (up to $1,500)

The "For Good" Minor has a shorter, simpler form geared toward organizations with a smaller request and the "For Good" Major is a more standard length grant application. Organizations can receive one grant per calendar year.

Grants are reviewed in the following areas each year: 

Arts

Arts & Humanities: Programming that opens opportunities for more residents to participate in and experience the arts in our community. Supports historical preservation programs and projects. 

Children

Nurturing Our Children: Programs that help provide nurturing to the young children of our community. 

Community Improvement and Special Needs

Community Development: Addresses emerging community needs and issues that will help aid in the long-term overall planning and development of Berrien County. 

Education

Quality Education: Programs to enhance and encourage continuing quality education.

Environment

Environmental and Animal Protection: Programs to protect and enhance understanding of our environment and for the humane treatment of animals.

Health

Healthful Living: Programs to enhance the health of Berrien County residents and educating people to make healthy choices. 

Seniors

Senior Empowerment: Programs to improve the quality of life for Berrien County senior citizens. 

Youth Leadership and Development

Youth Leadership and Development: Programs that enhance the quality of life for Berrien County youth while helping them to make positive life choices and encourage positive peer pressure. 

Youth Leadership and Development grants are reviewed by our Youth Advisor Committee TEAM (Teens Exhibiting Able Minds). These grant applications require a presentation to the committee. TEAM is most interested in programs that promote positive decision making skills and encourage positive peer pressure. Specifically, programs that address:

• Drug abuse and alcohol prevention and awareness
• Teen sex and pregnancy prevention
• Positive entertainment and recreation for youth such as
• Summer programs, Extra curricular programs, After-school programs
• Mental and physical health issues in youth such as
• Depression and suicide, Bullying, Obesity

Introduction & Purpose

As part of its commitment to building a national Culture of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks ideas that advance health, equity, and wellbeing. Healthy Eating Research (HER) supports this goal through improving diet quality and nutrition for all Americans, addressing nutrition disparities, and reducing food and nutrition insecurity. HER’s mission is to support and disseminate research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and families and advance nutrition security and health equity.

The purpose of this call for proposals (CFP) is to generate evidence on supportive family policies and programs that have strong potential to impact equitable access to nutritious food in communities, nutrition security, diet quality, and improved nutrition and health outcomes. We are especially interested in strategies to improve health outcomes for families with lower incomes and/or racially and ethnically diverse populations experiencing higher rates of diet related chronic disease and/or health disparities. Findings will be used to guide and inform decisionmaking about policy and system changes that can advance nutrition equity and improve health.

Through this CFP, we seek to learn what works (or not) and why; who benefits the most from these policies and programs; and whether disparities are reduced. We are interested in solution oriented research that focuses on policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change at the national, state, local, and tribal levels. The CFP provides opportunities to develop and test innovative approaches to increasing access to healthy foods, such as through child nutrition programs; innovations in technologies; expanding program outreach and eligibility; simplifying program enrollment processes; identifying ways to improve equity within nutrition assistance programs; building the evidence base for these programs’ impacts on diet quality, food insecurity, nutrition, weight, and health; and areas for improvements and scalability.

HER issues CFPs to solicit scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds.

Targeted Age Groups; Priority Populations

The target population is children (ages birth to 18) and families in the United States, with high priority on those who are at highest risk for poor nutrition, specifically lower income families and racially and ethnically diverse populations (e.g., Black, Latino/a, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander).

Priority Topic Areas

This CFP focuses on five priority topic areas related to supportive family policies and programs to improve nutrition and health:

• Child nutrition programs
  • Child nutrition programs help ensure that children receive nutritious food, including meals and snacks that promote their health, growth, and school success.
  • Through this CFP, there is an opportunity to examine strategies to expand the reach and impact of these programs.
  • Strategies may include:
    • innovations in technologies;
    • expanding program outreach and eligibility;
    • simplifying program enrollment processes;
    • identifying ways to improve equity within nutrition assistance programs;
    • building the evidence base for these programs’ impacts on diet quality, food insecurity, nutrition, weight, and health; and
    • areas for improvements and scalability.
• Food access and hunger relief programs
  • Equitable access to healthy and affordable food in the U.S. is a major public health concern
  • Efforts to promote healthy choices in food banks and food pantries include:
    • the creation and adoption of formal nutrition policies,
    • cultivation of relationships with food donors who can donate healthier products, and
    • investment in capacity to store and display healthier food items
  • This CFP provides opportunities to develop and test innovative approaches to increasing access to healthy foods (including via improving the food retailenvironment); to conduct natural experiments and/or test interventions; and evaluate programs aimed at improving nutrition security and diet quality for children and families, especially among understudied populations.
• Structural inequities impacting access to healthy and affordable foods
  • Structural barriers, such as racism and classism, involve processes by which interconnected political, economic, social, and ideological systems generate and maintain unequal access to opportunities and resources.
  • This CFP would allow community academic partnerships to evaluate community powered initiatives, develop interventions to address root causes of food insecurity or obesity, and co design and test innovative models.
  • There is also a need to better understand the structural inequities and forces that have shaped contemporary food access and food insecurity in low income areas and communities of color and approaches to mitigate these forces.
• Social and economic programs (nonfood policies)
  • Social and economic inequities drive child nutrition disparities.
  • To date, little research has been conducted on the relationships and interconnections between nutrition, weight, and food and nutrition security in families and policies related to poverty reduction, family income supports, economic resources, housing assistance, or other family supportive policies.
  • Some examples of these policies and programs include:
    • financial payments to families;
    • income assistance and support programs;
    • housing assistance or housing security programs; and
    • increased access to social services
  • We are also interested in exploring other supportive family policies (e.g., paid family leave, flexible work schedules, home visiting programs, breastfeeding support) that impact parental and child health and nutrition outcomes.
• Emerging topics
  • This category is intended to allow for exploration of new and emerging public health topics impacting nutrition security, food security, and/or health equity and innovative policies, systems, and environmental strategies to support the optimal health of children and families.
  • Examples of potential topics could include:
    • applying a prevention (rather than clinical) lens to food in medicine initiatives;
    • identifying novel ways to utilize Medicaid or CHIP programs to optimize families’ nutrition and food security;
    • examining the impacts of climate change on food systems and access to healthy foods;
    • examining the implications of new obesity/weight loss drugs for public health and prevention initiatives, especially related to prevention work with adolescents and young children;
    • addressing unique issues impacting the health and wellbeing of rural communities;
    • examining issues related to public health datasets;
    • development of new measures and metrics for measuring progress, and others.

Total Awards

Each award will be up to a maximum of $275,000 with a total of up to $2.5 million to be funded through this CFP. We encourage proposals that request lower budget amounts. Awards will be a maximum of 24 months in duration. We encourage proposals that request shorter periods (e.g., 12-18 months)

The APF Impact

APF is a grant-making foundation that funds early career psychologists and graduate students using psychology to solve important problems and improve people’s lives.

Visionary Grant

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

• applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged);
• preventing violence;
• understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity);
• understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status);
• furthering racial equity: APA has requested funds from their fund at the Tides Foundation to fund a 2025 Visionary Grant that is focused on furthering racial equity.

Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

The places where we live, learn, work, play, and worship influence how we view and understand our communities, ourselves, and each other. A well-designed built environment can decrease obesity, heart disease, and diabetes rates while increasing physical, mental, and social health. The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) recognizes the link between the built environment and public health. TDH supports the creation of healthy built environments to protect, promote, and improve the health and prosperity of all Tennesseans.

In 2015, TDH created the Office of Primary Prevention (OPP), to help Tennessee communities build a culture of health. In 2018, OPP launched a competitive built environment grant program and awarded over $1,800,000 to 34 government and non-government grantees across Tennessee. The program was continued in 2021, awarding over $860,000 to fund 14 projects. TDH funded grants for convening, programming, planning, and construction projects. These built environment projects created and enhanced playgrounds, walking tracks, outdoor fitness stations, greenways, trails, and other publicly accessible spaces to promote physical activity, access to healthy food and social interaction. Many of the grant-funded projects benefited economically distressed or at-risk counties.

Sun Life’s Health Access Grant Program

Sun Life’s Health Access grant program (formerly the Team Up Against Diabetes grant program) awards organizations for improving access to health programs focused on diabetes & oral health care efforts in their local communities.

Sun Life is committed to improving access to health services for our communities. We support this work through our two philanthropic focus areas – diabetes and oral health. Oral health is an important part of overall health, and many at-risk communities lack access to preventive services and regular dental care. Diabetes, which often disproportionately impacts underprivileged communities, can lead to severe medical conditions, including cardiovascular and kidney disease. Diabetes and unattended oral health are also often connected. Supporting programs that help your communities access the health services they need, regardless of zip code, fosters healthier, more sustainable communities.

Our Health Access grant program (formerly Team Up Against Diabetes grant program) gives us the opportunity to directly engage with non-profit organizations and support health programs within their communities.

Funding

Organizations will have the opportunity to select from three grant options: $25,000, $50,000 or $100,000.

Waterman Foundation Rotary Club of Bakersfield Capital Grant Program

The Waterman Foundation (Foundation) was established by the Bakersfield Downtown Rotary Club in 1984 to provide scholarships to local students and grants for capital projects supporting local nonprofit organizations. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees governs the activities of the Foundation and is comprised of members of the Downtown Bakersfield Rotary Club.

The Waterman Foundation will award a total of $50,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations. The dollar amount to be distributed will be determined each funding year by the Waterman Foundation's Board of Trustees, including whether only a single large grant will be made to one agency, or a number of smaller grants made to more than one agency.

Areas of Community Need

Your proposal should demonstrate how your proposed project meets one or more of the following identified community needs:

• Health and human services for the uninsured and under-insured
• Transportation
• Child care and development
• Availability of health and related services
• Jobs and training
• Programs and services for seniors
• Mental health services
• Programs and services for youth
• Affordable housing
• Drug and alcohol services
• Dental care
• Teen pregnancy prevention
• Respiratory problems
• Communicable diseases
• Childhood obesity
• Education
• Homeless

Field of Interest

The Foundation’s interests in the field of health and community wellness are comprehensive and extend to health care, mental health, dental care, developmental and rehabilitative services, health and wellness promotion, health and wellness education, disease, accident prevention, nutrition and wellness.

Current Focus

Based on recent communication with the community about high priority health needs, the foundation is particularly interested in receiving proposals that address health care access, mental health care access, obesity and hunger.

Purpose

The purposes of the Alexander Eastman Foundation are served through grant support to organizations awarded in response to proposals and special initiative commitments planned collaboratively by the Foundation with local service providers. Grants are awarded to support the capital, special projects and operations needs of qualifying organizations.

Program Priorities

In considering proposals, priority is given to funding activity which serves the Foundation’s priority interests. The Alexander Eastman Foundation supports programs which:

Education

• Provide information and community education to improve the health and well-being of residents of the greater Derry area;
• Address goals for healthy individuals and families through a long-term commitment to prevention, health promotion and education of consumers and providers;
• Foster individual responsibility, independence, self-care and healthy life-style choices;

Family Systems

• Strengthen families as the critical unit for community health and well-being
• Recognize the changing nature of families and provide resources and assistance to reduce stress on families and improve family function;

Access

• Expand access to quality health care and prevention services for people with financial need.

MD Rural Health Care Grant

The objective of the Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund is to help raise the overall standard of living in rural areas to a level that meets or exceeds statewide benchmark averages by 2030, while preserving the best aspects of a pastoral cultural and rural way of life. Resources provided to the Fund are designed to facilitate significant targeted investments in important economic and community development programs and promote regional and intergovernmental cooperation. These investments will also enable local and regional public and nonprofit organizations to leverage additional non-state financial and human resources to facilitate the realization of sustainable rural development objectives. The Fund will serve the interests of the entire State by: 

• Encouraging the increase of entrepreneurial activity and commerce and a balanced economy in the State;
• Relieving conditions of unemployment and underemployment in rural areas;
• assisting in the retention of valuable farm and forest land for productive use by present and future generations;
• Promoting intergovernmental cooperation and public sector/private sector partnerships in and between rural and other areas;
• Enhancing the deployment of housing, transportation, water, wastewater, and broadband communications infrastructure and services in rural areas;
• Supporting rural commercial center redevelopment and community revitalization efforts; and,
• Generally promoting the health, happiness, safety, employment opportunity, and general welfare of the residents of each of the rural counties and municipal corporations of the State.

Health Care

Health care access and delivery is a major problem in the State’s rural areas. Residents often need to travel great distances to seek health care services due to health workforce shortages. This problem is in primary care, and is particularly acute in specialty care such as surgical specialties, dentistry, mental health and other medical specialty areas. 

Eligible health care projects will range from health care planning, to health program implementation and evaluation, and will include projects pertaining to the following:

• Improving access to health and medical/dental care:
  • Tele-medicine and telehealth networking
  • Transportation
  • Programs that focus on planning and/or coordination of health care
  • Programs that address rural population health needs
  • Programs that ensure health care insurance and treatment enrollment
  • Programs that implement and measure accomplishment of components of the state’s rural health plan
• Recruitment and retention of health care providers:
  • Programs to aid recruitment of health care providers
  • Rural residency programs in primary care and medical/surgical specialties and dentistry
  • Housing projects to support rural rotations of medical students/ health professions students
  • Pipeline programs for health care workers
• Behavioral and Mental health:
  • Substance abuse, including alcohol, opioids and prescription drugs
  • Depression and counseling, suicide prevention
  • Domestic abuse and violence 
• Programs that implement and measure components of the Maryland Rural Health Plan:
  • Access to care:
    • reduce barriers/remove gaps – primary care, specialists, behavioral health, oral health, and urgent/emergency facilities
  • Care coordination:
    • explore mechanisms to link health care consumers to services and improve coordination and collaboration between health care providers
  • Health literacy and health insurance literacy:
    • explore ways to increase individual health literacy and health insurance literacy of consumers
  • Outreach and education:
    • work with community-based services and health care infrastructure to provide outreach and education to citizens on relevant and emergent health issues
• Chronic disease prevention and management:
  • Health education on diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancers prevalent in rural Maryland, hypertension/high blood pressure
  • Disease management programs
  • Research and treatment of health impacts on minority populations, and in particular, prenatal care
• Oral and Dental health 

Special FY2024 RMPIF Health Care Addition: Projects to support the Rural Nonemergency Medical Transportation Pilot Program

Current healthcare research indicates that one out of five healthcare appointments are missed due to lack of reliable transportation (Syed, 2013). Research indicates that there are as many as 73,000 to 82,000 adult Marylanders who miss at least one or more medical appointments each year. Compared to the rest of the U.S. population, the transportation disadvantaged, the target population, is poorer, more female, includes more minority population groups and suffers more disease co-morbidity. 

Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation

Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation (IVWF) annually awards one-year, Health and Wellness grants ranging from $1,000 – $10,000 per recipient. 

We recognize the importance and value of focusing on the quality of life for the residents of the Imperial County and want to support the work that many organizations are doing to address health and wellness, and community engagement in disinvested communities and especially with populations and groups that have been historically excluded from planning and decision-making. In addition, we value the importance of the nonprofits that lead this work and are committed to supporting them in building capacity to carry out their work and mission.

Rural Development Hub

Imperial Valley Wellness Foundation (IVWF) is a grantmaker and serves as a Rural Development Hub in Imperial County by mobilizing resources into the region. As a grantmaker, IVWF funds in the areas of health and wellness, community engagement and nonprofit capacity building. As a Rural Development Hub, IVWF hosts Learning Exchanges, where individuals and organizations gather to learn, share, and discover ways to work together, building civic infrastructure to make the Imperial Valley A Better Place to Live for All.

A priority is to make sure that the most vulnerable communities and populations are visible to and heard by those making decisions that affect their daily lives. Our work around Civic Engagement will support community members to engage, elevate their voices, and participate in planning to make a reality the changes they want to see. Community Building Hubs will create the space and opportunity for community members to gather and mobilize around the priorities they identify and partner with local nonprofits that can enhance their efforts. These hubs will become their power base as they meet with institutions and government representatives with solutions on how to improve conditions.Focus Areas

We invite 501(c)(3) nonprofits to apply for funding in one of the following three areas: 

Family and Community Well-Being:

• Food insecurity and healthy eating
• Active living and physical activity
• Mental and emotional health
• Safe and healthy living neighborhoods
• Social health
• Programs that focus on the awareness and prevention of asthma, prenatal care, diabetes and obesity
• Health and wellness programs that benefit children, disadvantaged students, farm workers, homeless, LGBTQ, low-income families, seniors and veterans

Community Voice & Strength

• Helping community members address the issues and needs they face in their communities
• Engaging community members to work together on community priorities
• Creating opportunities for community members to gather and socialize
• Helping community members gain awareness and become better informed
• Listening to the community to learn more about their priorities and helping them take actions to improve conditions
• Building the community’s capacity so they can create the change they want to see

Nonprofit Capacity Building

• Strengthening the operations of the organization
• Strengthening the staff and team of the organization
• Building a strong volunteer base
• Attending conferences and workshops
• Purchasing and/or improving equipment and software
• Technical assistance or consulting services

About Us

Adventist HealthCare, based in Gaithersburg, Md., is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization of dedicated professionals who work together each day to improve the health and well-being of people and communities through a ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

Community Partnership Fund

Adventist HealthCare is committed to addressing the needs of the communities we serve. Through our Community Partnership Fund (CPF), we provide funding to organizations whose work promotes health equity and wellness in our community.

Funding Priorities

Our Community Partnership Fund Funding Priorities will focus on significant needs identified through our Community Health Needs Assessment.

To be eligible for funding, requests must align with at least one of the three areas below:

• Access to Care: Expand access to comprehensive healthcare and wellness services
  • Programs addressing access to primary care and specialty care, including mental and behavioral health
  • Programs addressing low-income, uninsured, and underinsured populations
• Healthy Behaviors: Encourage individuals to engage in healthy behaviors
  • Programs enabling access to and completion of preventive and early-detection health screenings
  • Programs addressing food insecurity, obesity, and physical inactivity
  • Programs addressing chronic disease prevention and management, specifically for diabetes and heart disease
• Education, Income, & Workforce: Build equitable communities
  • Programs addressing educational inequities (e.g., kindergarten readiness, high school completion or college preparation)
  • Programs supporting attainment of employment with a livable wage (e.g., pipeline programs, career coaching and mentorship)
  • Programs that address housing stability, quality, and safety (e.g., creating safe living conditions and assisting individuals exiting homelessness)

Event Sponsorships

Amounts up to $5,000.

About Us

As a leading pharmaceutical company in the United States, we focus our innovation on some of the most devastating diseases and the most complex medical challenges of our time, across six therapeutic areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolism
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases & Vaccines
• Neuroscience
• Oncology
• Pulmonary Hypertension

Therapeutic Giving

Janssen is interested in funding programs and initiatives that improve patient access to treatment and services, advance health equity and strengthen frontline health workforces within the therapeutic areas noted.

Across therapeutic areas, we support disease awareness efforts, patient empowerment and advocacy, and linkages to care. Our preference is in support of programs focused on health system improvement with measurable outcomes over fundraising activities.

Cardiovascular & Metabolism

Disease Areas

• Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation, in particular populations who are obese.
• Thromboembolic Disease, patients at risk for VTE, both adult and pediatric populations.
• Vascular Protection (CAD/PAD) and prevention of amputation

Areas of Interest

Overall, we will support programs and initiatives that assist patients and caregivers impacted by the diseases noted below in the Cardiovascular therapeutic area, with a preference toward:

• Education of patients and caregivers on the respective disease areas
• Family/caregiver support, wellness education, advocacy support
• Innovative efforts to empower patients to manage their disease
• Tools to assist patients & families related to anti-coagulant therapy
• Efforts to build skills of professionals and caregivers to improve patient outcomes
• Efforts to address healthcare disparities for marginalized or at-risk groups (outreach & awareness, education to policy makers, stigma & cultural competence initiatives)
• Advocacy initiatives on access to care to treat individual patient needs

About Us

As a leading pharmaceutical company in the United States, we focus our innovation on some of the most devastating diseases and the most complex medical challenges of our time, across six therapeutic areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolism
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases & Vaccines
• Neuroscience
• Oncology
• Pulmonary Hypertension

Therapeutic Giving

Janssen is interested in funding programs and initiatives that improve patient access to treatment and services, advance health equity and strengthen frontline health workforces within the therapeutic areas noted.

Across therapeutic areas, we support disease awareness efforts, patient empowerment and advocacy, and linkages to care. Our preference is in support of programs focused on health system improvement with measurable outcomes over fundraising activities.

Cardiovascular & Metabolism

Disease Areas

• Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation, in particular populations who are obese.
• Thromboembolic Disease, patients at risk for VTE, both adult and pediatric populations.
• Vascular Protection (CAD/PAD) and prevention of amputation

Areas of Interest

Overall, we will support programs and initiatives that assist patients and caregivers impacted by the diseases noted below in the Cardiovascular therapeutic area, with a preference toward:

• Education of patients and caregivers on the respective disease areas
• Family/caregiver support, wellness education, advocacy support
• Innovative efforts to empower patients to manage their disease
• Tools to assist patients & families related to anti-coagulant therapy
• Efforts to build skills of professionals and caregivers to improve patient outcomes
• Efforts to address healthcare disparities for marginalized or at-risk groups (outreach & awareness, education to policy makers, stigma & cultural competence initiatives)
• Advocacy initiatives on access to care to treat individual patient needs