Pottstown Regional Community Foundation: August 2025
The Pottstown Regional Community Foundation (PRCF) will launch its 2025 Fall Grant Round. For this final grant round of the calendar year, the foundation prioritizes organizations that demonstrate clear alignment with PRCF’s Results Framework and have not yet received an award this calendar year. Competitive requests will be supported by goals stated in community and regional plans and address needs communicated in foundation or other research studies.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – August 2025
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
James Kimmey Selected 2013 Terrance Keenan Award Recipient
James R. Kimmey, MD, MPH, former founding president and CEO of the Missouri Foundation for Health, has been selected the 2013 recipient of GIH’s Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.
Coming Soon? The Ongoing Effort to Promote Better Depression Services in Primary Care
Depression is one of the most common disabling and debilitating health conditions in the United States and internationally. To ensure better depression care for older patients, The John A. Hartford Foundation has advocated for the Improving Mood–Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) model as the standard approach to the delivery of mental health services in primary care.
Conceptualizing Best Practices for Maternal and Child Health
The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is committed to sharing effective and promising maternal and child health practices so that programs may maximize on existing knowledge and learn from peers. AMCHP aims to do so through its Best Practices program and the Innovation Station, a searchable, on-line database of programs that work.
Improving Systems of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
When children with chronic conditions are acutely ill, they generally receive high-quality, comprehensive medical care. Once the acute stage has passed, however, families typically find that ongoing care for a child with complex needs involves a series of discontinuous, uncoordinated, and costly services and programs.
Faith Mitchell Named GIH President and CEO
The Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors has selected Faith Mitchell, Ph.D. as the organization’s next president and CEO. She will assume the position on December 1, 2012, succeeding Lauren LeRoy, who has led GIH for the past 14 years.