Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC)

The Mary Black Foundation has awarded $1,564,700 in grants to seven nonprofit organizations serving Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

The funded organizations include:

  • Homes of Hope—to assist in the development of affordable rental housing units in the City of Spartanburg’s Southside. ($126,000)
  • Institute for Child Success—to continue its advocacy and policy work related to early childhood development. ($75,000)
  • Spartanburg Area Mental Health—to continue its work in addressing the mental health needs of underserved communities in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ($58,200)
  • Spartanburg County First Steps—to build its capacity to expand Quality Counts and support the Hello Family initiative. ($258,000 over three years)
  • Spartanburg Regional Foundation—to address maternal and infant health outcomes through the Nurse Family Partnership program. ($570,000 over three years)
  • Spartanburg School District Three—to support the implementation of a three-year-old kindergarten program in Pacolet. ($336,500 over three years)
  • Upstate Family Resource Center—to continue family development programming and work with PASOs Spartanburg, South Carolina. ($141,000)

In addition to the grant awards above, the foundation announced three grants made in honor of Ms. Nora Curiel, the inaugural Dr. George Newby, Jr. Health Equity Leadership Award recipient.

  • HALTER ($4,000)
  • PASOs Spartanburg ($11,000)
  • Upstate Family Resource Center ($10,000)

The next grant cycle will open on August 15, 2022.

For more information, click here.

Contact: 864.573.9500.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit, MI)

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, in collaboration with funding partners, awarded 24 requests for proposal grants.

  • Access of West Michigan—to support Refresh Now, Fresh Markets, and Good Food Systems. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Allen Neighborhood Center—to expand the Hunter Park-based growing initiatives, Breadbasket Pantry, and Veggie Box programs. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Authority Health—to address barriers to Medication-Assisted Treatment. Co-funded by the Children’s Foundation and the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation. ($40,000)
  • Barry County Community Foundation—to establish a local food policy council, build sustainability for School-to-Community Garden, and complete a market analysis. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Community Action House—to support “Healthy Eating & Nutrition Advocacy” at the Holland/Zeeland Food Club. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Eastern Upper Peninsula Opioid Response Consortium—to support the “Alger-Luce Road to Recovery” program. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Superior Health Foundation, and Upper Peninsula Health Plan. ($150,000)
  • Great Lakes Recovery Centers, Inc.—to support the “Rebuilding LOVES After Addiction” program. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Superior Health Foundation, and Upper Peninsula Health Plan. ($150,000)
  • Greater Lansing Food Bank—to improve food service to diverse communities through outreach and distribution programs. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Groundwork for Resilient Communities, Inc.—to support the “Fresh Food for All” program. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($75,000)
  • Hope Network—to implement an integrated care model. Co-funded by the Children’s Foundation and the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation. ($40,000)
  • The MADE Institute—to support the programming expansion of addressing mental health disorders for at-risk youth. Co-funded by the Children’s Foundation and the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation. ($40,000)
  • Micah 6 Community—to expand and restart Pop-Up Markets to bring produce to high-risk populations. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($20,000)
  • National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Inc.—to expand the Inkster community gardens and provide youth gardening training. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($25,000)
  • Oakland University—to support the “Prescription for a Healthy Oakland – Southeast Expansion” project. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($60,000)
  • RISE Corp.—to support healthy food distribution programs. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Roosevelt Park Neighborhood Association—to support the expansion of Cesar E. Chavez Farmers Market Services and Community Garden programs. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($20,000)
  • Superior Housing Solutions—to support the “Superior Housing Solutions Recovery Community” program. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Superior Health Foundation, and Upper Peninsula Health Plan. ($40,000)
  • Superior Housing Solution—to support the expansion of street outreach efforts. Co-funded by the Children’s Foundation and the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation. ($40,000)
  • Superior Health Foundation—to support the Upper Peninsula Food and Nutrition Insecurity Initiative. Co-funded by Michigan Health Endowment Fund. ($509,976)
  • United Way of Northeast Michigan—to revitalize the local food policy council and establish programs to address food and nutrition insecurity. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($75,000)
  • Wayne County Community Action Agency—to Support the “Empowered Pantry” at Wayne Metro’s East Childhood Development Center in Dearborn Heights. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($25,000)
  • Western Upper Peninsula Health Department—to support the “Facing Addiction through Community Engagement Project. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, Superior Health Foundation, and Upper Peninsula Health Plan. ($150,000)
  • YMCA of Saginaw—to support mini food pantries. Co-funded by BCBSM Social Mission, Michigan Health Endowment Fund, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. ($50,000)
  • Youth Justice Fund—to support a trauma-informed care model program expansion to Monroe and Lenawee counties. Co-funded by the Children’s Foundation and the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation. ($40,000)

Contact: Elba Huerta at foundation@bcbsm.com.

The Conrad Hilton Foundation (Agoura Hills, CA)

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation approved 12 grants totaling more than $50 million in the first quarter of 2022. These grants were awarded to grantees across the Hilton Foundation’s evolving program areas in the United States and internationally.

Following is an overview of the grants awarded:

  • Affordable Housing Initiative, LLC—to provide a program-related investment to support the development of affordable and supportive housing through the Affordable Housing Fund. ($5 million)
  • BRAC USA—to support the scaling up of integrated two-generational programming for refugee and host communities in Uganda. ($5.6 million)
  • Catholic Sisters—to collaborate with Catholic sisters in providing 325 youth experiencing disadvantages with career development and supportive services through Archdiocesan Youth Employment. ($3 million)
  • A Community of Friends—to provide a program-related investment to support piloting an alternative financing model for supportive housing. ($3 million)
  • D-Tree International—to strengthen the national digital community health early childhood development program in Zanzibar and scale to Mainland Tanzania. ($1.8 million)
  • Episcopal Relief & Development—to equip faith leaders and community stakeholders with the skills to support holistic early childhood development and advance advocacy efforts to support early childhood development services through an interfaith platform in Kenya and Mozambique. ($3 million)
  • Interfaith Youth Core—for general operating support. ($1.5 million)
  • Marywood University—to implement Phase VI of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative in 10 countries in Africa and to establish an investment fund for sisters’ education. ($11 million)
  • National Center for Youth Law—to support a collective impact campaign that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care, economic assets and financial supports, improve well-being outcomes, and reduce unwanted pregnancies and child removals among foster youth in Los Angeles, California. ($3.8 million)
  • Social Venture Partners aka Social Justice Partners—to host the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Policy and Systems Change Fellowship program, which will recruit a new generation of public policy sector leaders to prevent and end homelessness across Los Angeles County, California with an emphasis on emerging BIPOC leaders. ($2.3 million)
  • United States Fund for UNICEF—to embed early childhood development within existing systems and service delivery mechanisms at national and sub-national levels in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, and to provide global and regional leadership and technical guidance on early childhood development. ($7 million)
  • YouthBuild Mexico—to create a multi-pronged approach to youth employment in Mexico City, Mexico, including direct service, collaboration, and advocacy on behalf of opportunity youth. ($3.1 million)

For more detailed information, click here.

Contact: Courtney Weider at 818.540.0511 or courtney@hiltonfoundation.org.

Palo Alto Community Fund (Carmel, CA)

In spring 2022, Palo Alto Community Fund (PACF) distributed 96 grants to nonprofit organizations serving Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park, California. A total of $1.7 million was granted, which represents an increase of 45 percent year over year. The number of grants awarded increased 25 percent. For the first time, PACF is granting 15 two-year grants, with the goal of providing a longer funding runway for the nonprofit recipients.

The increase in grants awarded was made possible by hundreds of local donors investing in hyper-local giving, many significantly increasing their donations to PACF. PACF grants focus on four broad pillars: Supporting Families, Uplifting the Vulnerable, Supporting Education, and Enhancing Community Life. Using these broad pillars rather than siloed issues as a framework for grantmaking, PACF recognizes issues and solutions as highly interconnected, requiring long term support and partnership.

These 2022 grant awards include five Dave Mitchell Impact Grants, totaling $400,000, to nonprofit organizations addressing the overarching needs of housing security, mental health, food security, childcare, and education equity in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park. They provide larger, unsolicited general operating support grants to nonprofit organizations that deliver transformative solutions to critical issues in a way that achieves both immediate impact and longer term systemic change. In addition, PACF granted three Cammie Vail Executive Director Grants, totaling $25,000, to three nonprofit organizations in support of nonprofit leadership development.

For more information and links to grantee websites, click here.

The Sozosei Foundation (Princeton, NJ)

The Sozosei Foundation works to eliminate the inappropriate use of jails and prisons for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness by improving access to mental health care in communities across the nation. To accomplish this goal, the foundation focuses its grantmaking across four pillars: arts and communications, improving access to community-based mental health care, research, and scaling what works. The foundation announced its latest round of grants to the following organizations working to increase access to mental health care:

  • 1 Million Madly Motivated Moms
  • Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
  • Community Access, Inc.
  • Corporation for Supportive Housing and Access Mental Health
  • Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
  • Inseparable, Inc.
  • Lemonada Media
  • Minnesota Public Radio
  • National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI)
  • National Center for State Courts
  • Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc.
  • The Path Forward
  • The Stephen C. Rose Legacy Fund
  • The University of Washington School of Medicine, Center for Mental Health, Policy and the Law
  • The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
  • Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation

To learn more about the foundation, click here.

Contact: Melissa Beck at 646.265.8878 or melissa.beck@otsuka-us.com.

UniHealth Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)

In addition to the collaborative funding with Cedars-Sinai and Providence Southern California, since 2020, UniHealth Foundation has approved an additional $2.6 million in new grants towards the Pathway to Health and Home initiative. These projects address a range of issues facing those experiencing homelessness, including mental health needs, navigation into social services, case management, and street medicine. Further, UniHealth investments have crossed multiple counties, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and Santa Barbara, California.

Grantees include:

  • ALS Association Golden West Chapter—to support its Excellence in ALS Care Initiative, an evidence-based model of care that has been proven to help people live longer and better with ALS, while also accelerating the search for treatments and cures. ($150,000)
  • California Hospital Medical Center Foundation—to support “up-stream” interventions that target social determinants of health to improve overall community health and provide significant cost savings for the hospital. ($150,000)
  • Child Development Institute—to support babies who require a NICU hospitalization who are at high risk for developmental challenges, including delays in communication, physical, sensory, social-emotional, and cognitive development and their parents who are at high risk for mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. ($600,000 for three years)
  • Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County—to support the FNP Residency program, which will expand access to quality primary care for underserved and special populations in Los Angeles County through this clinical workforce development training program for new FNPs placed in Federally Qualified Health Centers. ($325,000 for 18 months)
  • H.O.P.E.—well-established research concludes that housing and community health are strongly connected. The Corporation for Supportive Housing, the CDC, and the National Center for Healthy Housing find that access to safe, affordable housing, and the supports necessary to maintain that housing, constitutes one of the most basic and powerful social determinants of health. ($150,000)
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC—to support efforts to address the health/social needs of people experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness (PEH) across the continuum of locations where care is received –on the street, as well as in emergency shelters, temporary shelters, recuperative care, and permanent supportive housing and workforce training on the reality of the individual’s life prior to becoming sheltered or during periods of unshelteredness. ($300,000 for three years)
  • MOMS Orange County—to support this organization’s work to serve low-income, pregnant women of color in Orange County, California where over 40 percent of babies are born to mothers living in poverty. ($350,000 for three years)
  • Mount Saint Mary’s University—to establish a primary care training program for nursing students in partnership with the South Central Family Health Center. ($399,919 for two years)
  • National Health Care for the Homeless Council Inc.—to support recuperative care programs which can reduce ED and inpatient costs and contribute to better overall health outcomes; help combat health disparities and inequities; and serve as a bridge between hospitals and supportive and affordable housing programs. ($1,182,500 for three years)
  • Orange County Association for Mental Health—to support the MHA’s Homeless Mentally Ill Multi-Service Center Program in Santa Ana, California ($60,000).
  • PROJECT JOY—to support this backbone agency for AV AAIMM (black infant and maternal mortality) Prevention Initiative. ($150,000 for three years)
  • University of California, Riverside—to re-open the City of Riverside Hulen Place Clinic to provide primary care and mental health services to the homeless and low-income communities. ($600,000 for three years)
  • Valley Community Healthcare—to support VCH’s RN Practice Transformation Project, implementing the Triple Aim framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, creates an approach to respond to this barrier, optimizing patient access to care while maintaining the highest quality standards. ($350,000 for three years)

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, MD)

The Weinberg Foundation approved more than $10 million in grants supporting the areas of housing, health, jobs, education, and community services. Health-related grants include:

  • Community Assistance Network—to support the renovation of this organization’s food pantry, outreach offices, and supportive housing facility. ($400,000)
  • First Fruits Farm—to support the renovation of a packaging and distribution facility with the goal of expanding services to more people, while managing increased demand and production. ($300,000)
  • Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice—to support the evaluation of sustainably funding a “food as medicine” model in Hawaiʻi that will inform the foundation’s rural strategic grantmaking and open new opportunities to increase federal funding for healthy food access. ($50,000)
  • Hopewest—to support the completion of a PACE (Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) Center, which will provide comprehensive health care services for older adults. ($500,000)
  • The Jewish Federations of North America—to support six local agencies in providing person-centered, trauma informed care for Holocaust survivors, other older adults with a history of trauma, and their caregivers. ($480,000)

Contact: 410.654.8500.

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