Archstone Foundation (Long Beach, CA)

In support of its mission to improve the health and well-being of older adults in California, the Archstone Foundation approved new grants totaling more than $325,000. These projects will help advance the Foundation’s goals by supporting multiple approaches to ensuring equity for all as we age—advocacy to protect older immigrants & LGBTQ+ older adults, education about Medi-Cal’s Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports to improve healthcare access, and a bilingual communications system by which Latino older adults can learn about resources in times of public crises.

Grantees include:

  • Justice in Aging—to expand the work of the Equity Advisory Council and strengthen advocacy for older Californians by partnering with local organizations to collect community stories, provide trainings tailored to California advocates, and produce educational resources to equip the field with timely, accurate information. The organization will also consider strategic litigation where necessary to defend benefits and rights. ($100,000)
  • California Health Policy Strategies (CalHPS)—to continue leading the CalAIM Statewide Older Adult Collaborative, which helps community-based organizations, health plans, and advocates connect older adults at risk of institutionalization to Medi-Cal’s Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports. Through webinars, convenings, and work groups, the Collaborative addresses enrollment barriers and builds practical solutions for service delivery. ($166,800)
  • National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA)—to pilot a new bilingual communication system for Latino older adults in California, by partnering with the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation and St. Barnabas Senior Services to co-create messaging campaigns and deliver them through trusted channels such as WhatsApp, radio, and promotores de salud. This effort will reach more than 2,500 older adults and caregivers with timely, culturally-tailored information while building a model that can be replicated in other communities. ($60,000)

Contact: Laura Rath at lrath@archstone.org

Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH)

The Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation approved grants and scholarships totaling $197,400. Twelve nonprofit organizations received grants, and nine schools received scholarships. Scholarships are awarded to students engaged in health-related studies at Aultman College, Kent State University Stark, Kent State University Tuscarawas, Malone University, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Stark State College, University of Akron Wayne College, University of Mount Union, and Walsh University. The foundation supports programs that promote the physical and mental well-being of the people residing in Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne counties in Ohio.

Those receiving grants include:

  • Access Tusc—care coordination for low-income new and expectant mothers and babies. ($20,000)
  • Adaptive Sports Ohio—to support youth with disabilities with wheelchair basketball equipment. ($15,000)
  • American Red Cross— for blood drive support. ($5,000)
  • Ben Curtis Family Foundation—to address food insecurity of children in the Alliance City School District. ($3,000)
  • Hartville Migrant Council—to support its free clinic in areas of behavioral health, dental care, vision services, and counseling. ($13,900)
  • Kent State Stark—for eight VR headsets for its nursing program. ($4,600)
  • Lacy Pac Adaptive Movement Center—to enable respite care for families of individuals with special needs. ($15,000)
  • Rittman Fire and Rescue—to purchase three cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices. ($11,500)
  • Thomas Aquinas School—for trauma training for school staff. ($2,000)
  • Stark Community Support Network—to serve those with chronic health issues, housing insecurity, trauma, and poverty by linking them to essential services that will lead them to better health, wellness, and self-sufficiency. ($18,000)
  • Stark State College Foundation—to purchase a bariatric nursing manikin to train students to be able to effectively assist obese patients. ($11,400)
  • Tuscarawas Clinic—for the Working Uninsured for operational support. ($10,000)
  • University of Akron Foundation—to purchase a physical assessment cart and a birthing bed. ($25,000)

Austin-Bailey has two grant cycles each year, and welcomes grant requests that are health and wellness related. It is suggested that nonprofit organizations call the foundation office first to discuss their project or program. The deadline for submitting grants for the next cycle is November 18, 2025.

Contact: Don Sultzbach at 330.580.2380

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation announced the 2025-2026 class of the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership (MICHL), a program that brings together a diverse cohort of 15 health care professionals to strengthen their leadership skills, deepen their awareness of structural, cultural, and institutional racism and expand their influence across organizations in public and private health settings.

Now in its 13th cohort, MICHL has guided over 210 emerging leaders since it started in 2005. Over the course of nine months, cohort participants will engage in a series of classroom, peer-to-peer, and professional learning opportunities designed to equip them with tools to address the health care needs of Massachusetts residents who are economically, socially, ethnically, and racially marginalized.

The 18-day educational and experiential program begins this month and closes with a graduation celebration in May 2026. The foundation underwrites the majority of costs associated with the program, which provides ongoing learning and networking opportunities after the initial nine-month program experience.

The 2025-26 MICHL participants are:

  • Oanh Bui, Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Lead Coordinator, Office of the Assistant Commissioner for Health Equity, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Courtney Chelo, Director of Government Relations, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • Catherine Chung, Director of Operations & Strategy, Asian Women for Health
  • Leslie Diaz, Director of Helpline and Public Programs, Health Care For All
  • Margaret Eichner, Deputy Director of Behavioral Health Policy, Massachusetts Office of Medicaid (MassHealth)
  • Malinda Ellwood, Acting Senior Director for Member Engagement and Experience, Massachusetts Office of Medicaid (MassHealth)
  • Lissette Gil-Sanchez, Director of the Office of Sexual Health & Youth Development, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Samara Grossman, Director of the Center for Behavioral Health and Wellness, Boston Public Health Commission
  • Sedruola Maruska, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center
  • Shavel’le Olivier, Executive Director, Mattapan Food & Fitness
  • Marisa Otis, Manager of Community Programs, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Taylor Rich, Senior Project Manager, Partners In Health
  • Andrew Tarbox, Manager of National Strategy, Community Care Cooperative
  • Morgan Taylor-McFadden, Director of Boston Healthy Start Initiative, Boston Public Health Commission
  • Emma Tzioumis, Epidemiologist and Program Planning & Evaluation Specialist, Cambridge Public Health Commission

MICHL was developed in 2005 by Michael McCormack and is now led by Bueno Washington, the director of the program. Daniel Michaud Weinstock serves as the program’s co-director.

For more information about MICHL, click here.

Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco, CA)

In continued partnership with organizations across California that are working to make this the healthiest state and end domestic violence, Blue Shield of California Foundation approved a $7.4 million grant docket in their third quarter meeting of 2025.

The foundation is renewing grants with several longtime partners in the work to strengthen economic security and mobility. These include FreeFrom, which addresses and prevents financial abuse, and Hand in Hand, which organizes the employers of domestic workers around fair wages, benefits, and job quality.

A new partnership for the foundation is with the End Child Poverty in California coalition (ECPCA), powered by the organization GRACE. A $75,000 grant to the coalition will help support statewide leadership and advocacy on economic security issues, including tax credit access, re-imagining CalWORKs, guaranteed income, and child care rate reform.

ECPCA is one of the driving forces behind California’s HOPE accounts, the largest baby bonds program in the nation that promises to be a powerful tool to address the racial wealth gap and the opportunity gap that all children with low incomes face. They have also made progress toward making CalWORKs more family centered. With the foundation’s support, ECPCA will engage more parents and youth with lived experiences in poverty to advance policy and system changes that help families move from poverty to prosperity.

With renewal grants to each member of a cohort exploring restorative practices, the foundation continues to invest in the pathway to healing from domestic violence. These members are East Los Angeles Women’s Center, DeafHope, and Homeboy Industries, along with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Healing Together, Success Stories, and Community Justice Center. In this grant cycle, the emphasis is on evaluation of restorative practices, examining such measures as the self-determination of survivors who choose these practices and their cultural responsiveness.

Another longtime partner in breaking the cycle of domestic violence, and in the foundation’s ethnic media strategy, is Alianza Metropolitan News. Alianza shares its coverage statewide through Spanish-language newspaper and radio partners.

The Berkeley Media Studies Group, an established foundation partner, is receiving a grant to support the communications strategies of local, regional, and state public health agencies in California. The foundation is also renewing significant support for three regional consortia of public health departments in Southern California, the Central Valley, and the Bay Area. Together, this quarter’s grants show an enduring commitment to making public agencies more inclusive of and responsive to their communities.

The leadership of the foundation’s evaluation and data strategy team is on display this quarter with a $750,000 investment in the California Study on Violence Experiences Across the Lifespan (CalVEX). CalVEX gathers quantitative and qualitative data on domestic violence in California. This grant will include a pilot of a national study as well.

  • Asian Resources, Inc. ($150,000)
  • Bend the Arc ($200,000)
  • California Partnership to End Domestic Violence ($500,000)
  • California State University Fresno Foundation ($515,000)
  • CalMatters ($200,000)
  • Caring Across Generations ($50,000)
  • Circles of Support and Accountability – Fresno Inc. ($40,000)
  • Community Initiatives ($150,000)
  • Contina Impact ($25,000)
  • DeafHope ($80,000)
  • East Los Angeles Women’s Center ($115,000)
  • FreeFrom ($400,000)
  • GRACE ($75,000)
  • Healing Together ($80,000)
  • Homeboy Industries ($40,000)
  • Independent Arts & Media ($100,000)
  • Integrated Human Services Group ($50,000)
  • Jenesse Center, Inc. ($535,000)
  • Justice in Aging ($100,000)
  • Legal Aid at Work ($430,000)
  • Praxis ($515,000)
  • Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. ($150,000)
  • Public Health Institute ($250,000)
  • Public Health Institute ($515,000)
  • Regents of the University of California at San Diego ($750,000)
  • Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth RJOY ($80,000)
  • San Francisco Study Center ($200,000)
  • Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management ($50,000)
  • Social Good Fund ($335,000)
  • Southern California Grantmakers ($50,000)
  • Success Stories Program ($40,000)
  • University of Southern California ($685,000)
  • YMCA of San Diego County ($50,000)

For a complete list of current grants and more information on all the foundation’s grantmaking, click here.

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York, NY)

The John A. Hartford Foundation approved new grants totaling $2,347,544 to strengthen support for family caregivers and improve public library programming for older adults. Grantees include:

  • Rush University Medical Center Embedding Caregivers into the Age-Friendly Ecosystem: Scaling and Sustaining the Movement—Family caregivers play a significant role in supporting older adults’ care, but they often lack support, training, and recognition within the health care system. To address these needs, Rush University Medical Center developed the Caring for Caregivers (C4C) model and implemented the program in 48 health care sites. The next phase of this work aims to embed family caregivers into the Age-Friendly Ecosystem, a cross-sector movement to improve quality of life for older adults. It will expand the award-winning C4C model to 100 new sites of care, develop scalable approaches for Age-Friendly Health Systems to routinely assess caregiver needs, and provide technical assistance to health care organizations to initiate change. It will also build a coalition of community and public health organizations to integrate caregiver support, including preparing 20 public health departments and training 150 public health professionals. This initiative has support from two regional funders, the Michigan Health and Hospital Association and the Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, and will leverage partnerships with national health and caregiving organizations. ($1,959,181 for three years)
  • American Library Association Aging Together: An Evaluation of Library Programs for Older Adults—This grant will support the American Library Association (ALA) to evaluate and summarize the state of older adult programming in libraries across the United States and offer recommendations based on successful models and best practices. Public libraries are vital community hubs for older adults, promoting social connection, enhancing well-being and ensuring access to essential resources—particularly in rural areas. However, little research exists on the prevalence or impact of library programming for older adults. ALA will conduct a national evaluation of library programming for older adults through a landscape report, advisory group, and data analysis from ALA initiatives. The findings from this project will inform ALA’s future actions regarding resource development, partner engagement, and initiative creation for older adult library programming. ($388,363 for 18 months)

Contact: Kiri Oliver at 212.324.7484 or kiri.oliver@johnahartford.org

Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (Millburn, NJ)

The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey (HFNJ) announced that it has awarded $1,622,566 in grants to 11 New Jersey nonprofit organizations in its third quarter of grantmaking in 2025. Several of the projects funded this quarter focused on developing the pipeline of the health care workforce for the future—providing individuals with training to attain credentials for careers in the health care sector.

Those receiving grants include:

  • The Bridge—to support a third year of a program combatting substance use at Irvington High School. ($201,075)
  • Boys & Girls Club of Newark—to bring mental health care to more children and families through the organization’s READY Family Wellness Center. ($189,945)
  • Zufall Health—to expand access to health care and supportive services for low-income Essex County seniors (year 3). ($151,003)
  • Rabbinical College of America—to provide for continuations of projects that seek to strengthen behavioral health supports for Jewish adolescents. ($150,000 with up to $25,000 in matching)
  • Newark Opportunity Youth Network—to support the Newark EMS Corps, which trains young people to become Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in Newark through a partnership with RWJBarnabas Health and University Hospital. ($150,000)
  • Jewish Education Center—to provide for continuations of projects that seek to strengthen behavioral health supports for Jewish adolescents. ($150,000)
  • Visiting Nurse Association of Central NJ—to continue to expand the Essex County Doula Learning Collaborative, where community members receive training and mentorship to become certified doulas and thus support women through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. ($134,082)
  • STRIVE International—to help the organization launch a healthcare workforce development initiative in Newark, NJ – replicating their evidence-based national training model supporting marginalized groups. ($130,000)
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association—for year 2 of the All Hearts Collaborative. ($126,461)
  • Helen Keller International—to launch a pilot program to train and mentor 30-50 Newark youth to deliver vision screenings in underserved communities, ensuring access for students directly on-site at Newark schools and vulnerable adults at local community-based organizations. ($115,000)
  • Greater Life—for year 3 of a Family Resource Center LifeLine to Health for Youth and Families. ($100,000)

Contact: Kevin McManemin at kmcmanemin@hfnj.org

RIZE Massachusetts Foundation (Boston, MA)

The RIZE Massachusetts Foundation (RIZE) awarded $1.25 million in one-year matching grants to municipalities across Massachusetts through the Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership (Mosaic).

Mosaic is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, and powered by RIZE. The funding comes from the Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund (ORRF), which resulted from the historic legal effort to hold private companies accountable for the devastation caused by the opioid overdose crisis. Mosaic is part of a network of programs and initiatives funded by ORRF to address the impact of the crisis in Massachusetts.

The Municipal Matching Grant Program seeks to match directly distributed municipal opioid settlement funds, enabling cities and towns to use best practices to end the overdose crisis, conduct community outreach and needs assessments, and collaborate with others.

Grantees will also have access to comprehensive support from RIZE through Mosaic’s Municipal Training and Technical Assistance Program, ensuring municipalities have a trusted partner to develop and implement strategies and solutions rooted in their communities.

Mosaic is designed to fund initiatives that address the opioid overdose crisis in communities and populations that have been historically underserved and have experienced a high rate of opioid-related overdose deaths. This model will ensure that ORRF settlement dollars are invested and remain in the communities most deeply impacted by the crisis while also fueling transformative change through grassroots efforts.

The next cycle of grant applications is due November 7, 2025, and the grant period will begin in March 2026. For the Municipal Matching Grant Program application, click here.

Contact: Molly McKinney at 617.243. 9950 or molly@ballcg.com

The Williamsburg Health Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)

The Williamsburg Health Foundation (WHF) approved $284,025 in grant funding awarded to 15 nonprofit or government agencies. These organizations serve the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County, Virginia by working to improve the health and well-being of community members.

These grants support a range of diverse projects and programs across seven of the foundation’s funding areas: Behavioral Health Services, Community Capacity Building, Healthy Aging, Healthy Eating Active Living, Integrated Care, Public Policy Advocacy, and Two-Generation Family Services.

Several first-time recipients and programs received grant awards. These initiatives will address food insecurity, healthy aging, and access to behavioral, medical, public health, and recovery support services. New organizations and programs receiving funding include:

  • Here for the Girls: Screening and Prevention Village
  • Housing Partnerships: Emergency Home Repairs & Home Modification Programs
  • Made 4 Connection: Family Night
  • PORCH: PORCH for Greater Williamsburg Pantries
  • Triangle Stepping Stones: Recovery Program Support
  • Virginia Community Health Worker Association: Increasing Community Health Workers in Greater Williamsburg
  • William & Mary Foundation: Supporting the Flourishing of Greater Williamsburg Preschool/Middle School Youth

To learn more about the foundation and its grant opportunities, click here.

Contact: Deborah Fisher at dfisher@williamsburghealthfoundation.org

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