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

The Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation approved grants totaling $120,510 to 11 nonprofit organizations. 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.

The foundation provides $43,000 in scholarships 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.

Those receiving grants include:

  • Access Health Tuscarawas County—to support a portion of community health worker’s salary. ($17,500)
  • Faith in Action—for basic operations for salary, insurance, postage, and fuel cards. ($10,110)
  • Feed Kids First—for food for the school pantry program. ($3,300)
  • Mercy Medical Center—to support the residency dental program at main campus and at St. Paul’s Square. ($25,000)
  • Eaton Care Center—for equipment for birthing center. ($4,000)
  • Ohio’s LifeCare Hospice—for a palliative care navigator/coordinator. ($30,000)
  • Saint Luke Lutheran Community—for an ultraviolet disinfection unit to protect against COVID-19. ($8,000)
  • Stark County Diaper Bank—to support a diaper bank space expansion. ($3,600)
  • Stark County Fatherhood Coalition—for health and safety kits for new parents. ($2,000)
  • Stark County Hunger Task Force—to alleviate the cost of food for those in need. ($10,000)
  • YMCA of Central Stark County —for mobile wellness equipment for youth and seniors. ($7,000)

The foundation has two grant cycles each year, and welcomes grant requests that are health and wellness related. It suggests nonprofit organizations call the foundation office first to discuss their project or program. The deadline for submitting grants for the next cycle is December 1, 2020.

Contact: Don Sultzbach at 330.580.2380.

 

Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC)

The Mary Black Foundation awarded new grants to 19 nonprofit organizations serving Spartanburg County, South Carolina, bringing its total grantmaking commitment in 2020 to over $3.1 million.

In early summer, the Mary Black Foundation awarded its first round of grants to organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The foundation recognized there was still an urgent need for more support and opened an additional opportunity for funding.

The foundation’s most recent grant cycle focused on the short term and longer-term, systemic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically basic needs of individuals and nonprofits, mental health, and the growing health and education lag. rants awarded are:

  • Adult Learning Center—to assist with staffing and training needed to offer comprehensive adult education services while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocol. ($9,000)
  • Angels Charge Ministries—in general operating support to serve women during and after incarceration by providing assistance with housing, case management, and advocacy to reduce recidivism and to facilitate a healthy productive reentry into our community. ($15,000)
  • Children’s Museum of the Upstate—to assist with operational costs at the downtown Spartanburg, South Carolina location, specifically related to efforts to provide high quality learning opportunities for young children in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. ($15,000)
  • EMERGE Family Therapy and Teaching Clinic—to support efforts to increase community awareness of mental health services and to increase its capacity to serve Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the Spartanburg community. ($176,000 over 18 months)
  • Habitat for Humanity Spartanburg—to assist with general operating expenses related to their work in providing housing and home repairs for low-income families. ($15,000)
  • Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve—for the construction of two structures that will provide educational and fitness activities for all abilities and ages. ($25,940)
  • Middle Tyger Community Center—to support This is My Child, an early learning and education program that serves children, ages 6 weeks – 4 years, in Spartanburg County School District Five. ($120,000)
  • Mount Moriah Baptist Church—to support the community with needs specific to COVID-19, including mental health and wellbeing services, providing on-site and virtual academic tutorial services for students kindergarten through 12th grade, and expanding food distribution to address food insecurity and food inaccessibility. ($75,000)
  • Reach Out and Read-Spartanburg County—to support an early literacy program based in pediatric medical offices and to provide professional development for early childhood educators. ($95,550 over two years)
  • Ruth’s Gleanings—to support increasing healthy food access by rescuing excess fresh produce from local farms and placing it in food pantries, soup kitchens, and mission homes throughout Spartanburg County, South Carolina. ($200,000 over two years)
  • The Salvation Army—to assist with operational costs for safety net services including case management, rent and utility assistance, food, clothing, and programming for under-resourced youth. ($15,000)
  • Sherman College of Chiropractic—to support the low-cost health clinic that provides chiropractic care to uninsured and underinsured individuals in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ($15,000)
  • SC School for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation—to support K-12 education for deaf and blind children in Spartanburg, South Carolina. ($15,000)
  • Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center—to address the stigma within communities of color about accessing mental health resources. ($214,385 over 18 months)
  • Spartanburg Interfaith Hospitality Network—to support a part-time case manager for one of its programs, the Opportunity Center, which supports several of the basic needs faced by individuals who are currently without safe, stable housing. ($27,000)
  • Spartanburg Youth Soccer Club—to launch the “Live Your Dream” program that will offer fully-subsidized recreation soccer training for players between the ages of 5 and 8. ($20,000)
  • United Way of the Piedmont—to support the Opportunity Housing Collaborative, which will guide the development of funding, policies, and programs to ensure sustainable neighborhoods and increase affordable housing options. ($25,000)
  • Upstate Family Resource Center—for general operating support to provide safety net services that help families overcome crisis and stabilize financially. ($15,000)
  • Upstate Workforce Futures Corporation—to support the ACHIEVE program, which offers employment and educational opportunities for young people ages 16-24 through GED preparation and employability training. ($9,200)

Cal Wellness is committed to leveraging more of its endowment to improve the lives of Californians. To that end, the foundation supplements its grantmaking with PRIs. The latest round of PRIs totaling $3 million will provide financial support and capital to underserved communities of color across California.

The foundation’s next application cycle will open early 2021. For information related to grant applications click here.

Contact: Molly Talbot-Metz at 864.573.9500.

 

CARESTAR Foundation (Berkley, CA)

CARESTAR awarded $442,000 over two years to the Public Health Advocates’ First Response Transformation Campaign.

Public Health Advocates works with communities to promote policies, systems, and norms that foster health and social justice. The project will help several California cities redesign their emergency response systems using evidence-based strategies that make them more responsive, less costly, and less racially-biased.

Success in these cities will help support transformation throughout California and beyond. CARESTAR’s funding provides for foundational research, formation of an advisory committee, identification of best practices, and initial recruitment of cities and residents into the campaign.

This project is precisely aligned with CARESTAR’s mission by closely examining emergency response systems in selected cities, identifying tested strategies to serve as models for their transformation, while seeking direct community input—inclusive and equity-focused—to prioritize those promising strategies.

 

John A. Hartford Foundation (New York, NY)

The John A. Hartford Foundation approved funding for three grants totaling $1,399,883 to improve care for older adults and family caregivers.

  • Center for Medicare Advocacy, Community Catalyst, Justice in Aging, PHI—general operating support grants to four advocacy organizations that educate on aging issues will help ensure access to high-quality health care for older adults and support for family caregivers. ($200,000 per organization for two years)
  • FrameWorks Institute—to build on the work of the Reframing Aging Initiative to develop a powerful communications strategy to help stakeholders articulate a vision for nursing home care that is more effective, inclusive and equitable for residents and staff. The FrameWorks Institute will launch new research into the public’s understanding of nursing home care, offer support to nursing home communicators and share recommendations with advocates and experts interested in the health and safety of older adults, other residents, and nursing home staff. ($499,883 for 18 months)
  • Milken Institute, Center for the Future of Aging— to support the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, which was developed by the Milken Institute’s Center for the Future of Aging to improve dementia care outcomes, support family caregivers, and reduce costs. The Alliance will bring together partners from health systems, provider groups, industry, research, advocacy, philanthropy, academia, and government. Grant funding will support the distribution of a series of action-oriented reports that promote new policies for a dementia-capable workforce and health system, reduce gender, and racial disparities and advance coordinated payment and care delivery models aligned with Age-Friendly Health Systems. ($100,000 for one year)

Contact: Clare Churchouse at 212.832.7788 or clare.churchouse@johnahartford.org.

 

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation (New York, NY)

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation will invest an additional $10 million in civic participation and engagement organizations ahead of the November elections. The foundation announced the first $10 million in grants in June in response to both the racial justice related uprisings sparked by the death of George Floyd and to the increased challenges to safe, healthy, and accessible voting created by COVID-19. These concerns continue to impact election and democracy advocates working to ensure that historically underrepresented communities, including communities of color, lower-income communities, and young people, can cast their ballots and have each of those ballots counted.

This funding is a reflection of the foundation’s firm commitment to protecting the right of all eligible voters to cast their ballot safely and without obstruction. This additional $10 million brings its total giving in 2020 to $28 million, over 30 percent of the $88 million dollars that comprised the endowment at the beginning of the year.

The $10 million investment will be divided across six organizations and funder collaboratives that work to ensure underrepresented communities have the information and access they need to vote in a safe and healthy manner. Areas of focus for the grantees include turning out and supporting young people, communities of color, and lower-income communities. Additionally, some grantees are focused on ensuring that election infrastructure is fully functioning, addressing shortages of poll workers, election administration challenges, and voting security.

The grantees receiving funding are:

  • State Infrastructure Fund
  • Youth Engagement Fund
  • Alliance for Youth Organizing
  • Power the Polls
  • Center for Secure and Modern Elections
  • Trusted Elections Fund

The Langeloth Foundation has signed on to the Crisis Charitable Commitment, an effort launched

to help create a reasonable benchmark for philanthropists that will encourage significantly greater

resources to go to meet the needs created by the multiple crises facing the United States.

Contact: Jennifer Ryder at 646.250.5105 or jennifer@abpartners.co.

 

Saint Luke’s Foundation (Cleveland, OH)

The Saint Luke’s Foundation approved grants to six organizations totaling $463,500. These investments advance the foundation’s mission to achieve health equity by addressing social determinants of health including educational attainment, financial stability, healthy eating and active living, safe and affordable housing, social connections, and the strengthening of the neighborhoods surrounding the former Saint Luke’s hospital.

Third round grants awarded to close the health equity gap include:

  • Better Health Partnership ($56,500)
  • Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (fiscal sponsor) ($100,000)
  • Environmental Health Watch ($68,000)
  • Health Policy Institute of Ohio ($113,000)
  • LAND Studio ($90,000)
  • See You At The Top ($36,000)

For more information, click here.

Contact: Tim Tramble at 216.431.8010 or ttramble@stlukesfdn.org.

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