BHHS Legacy Foundation (Phoenix, AZ)
BHHS Legacy Foundation announced grant awards for the first half of 2019. Between January and June, nearly $3 million was awarded to support community organizations that work to improve good health.
Approximately 50 organizations and programs received funding, in both the Phoenix, Arizona and Tri-State regions of the foundations’ geographic service area. For example, a grant for $125,000 was awarded to Banner Health Foundation to launch the Family-Centered Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome program, which will allow Banner Health’s largest NICUs to implement a new model of treating substance-exposed newborns, reducing the amounts of opioids used and shortening the time to discharge.
A grant for $90,000 was awarded to Brighter Way Institute to expand access to dental care to children in need at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix. This collaboration with Boys & Girls Clubs will significantly expand access to vital dental care for children in the Greater Phoenix, Arizona region.
To help create the next generation of health care workers, Mohave Community College (MCC) received $125,000 to provide scholarships for nursing and medical allied health students. Since its inception, BHHS Legacy Foundation has provided more than 250 scholarships to MCC students.
A $100,000 grant to Sojourner Center will support their participation in the Trauma-Informed Certification Program and also provide restorative dental care for clients who have experienced domestic violence. Meanwhile, an award of $15,000 was made to Phoenix Theatre’s Partners that Heal program, which uses specially trained actors to deliver unique play-based, improvisational care to children and families undergoing traumatic medical diagnoses.
In an effort to impact social and cultural change, the foundation awarded a grant of $25,000 to support Valley Leadership with the important work they are doing to tackle the opioid crisis in Arizona. A second-year grant of $36,000 was awarded to the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits for their Nonprofit Lifecycles Assessment Workshops to coach nonprofit professionals and their boards on the importance of planning and strategic direction using the seven lifecycles stages curriculum from Dr. Susan Kenny Stevens.
Contact: Gerald Wissink
Phone: 602.778.1200
Email: info@bhhslegacy.org
Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC)
The Mary Black Foundation awarded $453,250 in grants to seven nonprofit organizations serving adolescents of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. This funding is through the federal grant Mary Black Foundation receives from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). In 2014, the foundation received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from OPA to reduce teen pregnancy throughout the county. Grants awarded include:
- BirthMatters—to provide the evidence-based curricula SHARP and Seventeen Days to teens in the community 15 years old and older. It will also provide continuation of their community health worker model in which the Rapid Assessment for Adolescent Preventative Services is used with teens 16 years old and older to assess risk and navigate them to medical care. ($82,000)
- Bloom Upstate—to provide the evidence-based curricula Making a Difference and SiHLE to females in the community and allow it to offer the positive youth development model Girls Circle to females completing the evidence-based curricula throughout the year. ($36,000)
- City of Spartanburg—to provide the evidence-based curricula Making a Difference and SiHLE to teens in the community at the Parks and Recreation facilities. The funding will provide high quality positive youth development programming for teens, allow the Parks and Recreation facilities to continue to offer safe spaces through their Friday Teen Nights, and offer a day of youth advocacy for youth called RiZe. ($138,000)
- In Heaven’s Hands Ministries—to provide the evidence-based curriculum Love Notes and soft skills employment training for youth 16 years old and older in the community. ($26,000)
- Spartanburg School District 1—to provide all middle and high school students the evidence-based curricula Healthy Futures: Nu-CULTURE and Love Notes as incorporated into their South Carolina Comprehensive Health Education Act standards. ($28,000)
- Spartanburg School District 5—to provide all middle and high school students the evidence-based curricula Healthy Futures: Nu-CULTURE and Love Notes. It will also help fund an after school positive youth development program at Byrnes High School. ($40,000)
- Spartanburg School District 7—for three different projects: the continued implementation of My Brother’s Keeper at Carver Middle School; to provide the evidence-based curriculum Love Notes in the after-school setting to 75 youth; and to provide all middle and high school students at Whitlock Flexible Learning Center the evidence-based curricula Healthy Futures: Nu-CULTURE and Love Notes and for staff to participate in the Capturing Kids’ Hearts training and incorporate a high quality positive youth development mentoring model into the Healthy Futures- Nu-CULTURE curriculum. ($63,250)
Phone: 864.573.9500
George Family Foundation (Minneapolis, MN)
The George Family Foundation approved grants that will support a new women’s health initiative at the Mayo Clinic, youth development programs that offer gap year opportunities, outdoor learning and college readiness programs, as well as general operating support for several long-term grantees of the foundation. The foundation awarded $2,675,000 to 16 organizations, out of an annual giving budget of $4.9 million.
The complete list of grantees includes:
- Auburn Theological Seminary—to support the Sojourner Truth Leadership Circle: Cohort 3 Healing for Healers program. ($50,000)
- College Possible—to support general operations. ($75,000)
- Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing—to support general operations. ($25,000)
- Education Opens Doors—to support general operations. ($12,500)
- End in Mind Project—to support general operations. ($75,000)
- Mayo Clinic—to support the Mayo Clinic Center for Women’s Health. ($2 million)
- Georgia Tech Foundation—to support the Women in Engineering Leadership program. ($30,000)
- Global Citizen Year—to support participants with financial need that come from Minnesota or Dallas, Texas. ($100,000)
- Guthrie Theater—to support the theater’s 2019-2020 annual fund. ($25,000)
- North Texas Food Bank—to support general operations. ($12,500)
- Loppet Adventures—to support the Loppet High School Youth Adventures programming. ($50,000)
- Tergar International—to support the Joy of Living program expansion and to support general operations. ($100,000)
- Tides Foundation—to support Integrative Medicine for the Underserved strategic planning, focused on development and marketing. ($25,000)
- United States of Care Campaign—to support general operations. ($25,000)
- Women Moving Millions—to support its Philanthropic Leadership Curriculum program. ($50,000)
- Youth Frontiers—to support general operations. ($20,000)
Contact: Kate Lilja Lohnes
Phone: 952.893.7140
Email: kate@lilja.com
Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (Richmond, VA)
Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (RMHF) recently approved 14 access to health care grant applications. Total funding for 2019 applications is $375,340. Funded organizations include:
- Advocates in Parenting
- Better Housing Coalition
- Blue Sky Fund
- Challenge Discovery Projects
- Faces of HOPE
- Family Lifeline
- Greater Richmond SCAN (Richmond Stop Child Abuse Now)
- Jewish Family Services
- Lucy Corr Foundation
- Reach Out for Life
- Richmond Public Schools Education Foundation
- Virginia Dental Association Foundation
- Virginia Oral Health Coalition
- Voices for Virginia’s Children
Additionally, RMHF awarded eight grant applications totaling $360,000 for health equity and the built environment. The following organizations will receive funding:
- Children’s Home Society of Virginia
- Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, in partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Richmond and the Medical Legal Partnership
- Housing Opportunities Made Equal
- VCU Foundation (RVA Eviction Lab)
- Manufactured Home Community Coalition of Virginia
- Richmond Opportunities, Inc. in collaboration with RRHA, Richmond City Health District and others
- Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation
- Urban Hope
Finally, RMHF approved five responsive grants, totaling $36,500 in funding. They offer timely support to advance its mission of fostering an equitable and healthy Richmond, Virginia region outside and beyond its strategic grant opportunities. Each opportunity was time-sensitive and for $10,000 or less. Funding was awarded to the following organizations:
- Groundwork RVA
- Help Me Help You Foundation
- Richmond City Health District
- Virginia Housing Alliance
- Virginia Department of Health: Office of Equity
Contact: Lisa Bender
Phone: 804.282.6282
Email: lbender@rmhfoundation.org
St. David’s Foundation (Austin, TX)
St. David’s Foundation awarded grants totaling over $37 million as part of its summer grants package. The grants cover programs and projects aimed at health care needs such as teen pregnancy prevention, women’s health, child resilience, and housing wraparound services aimed at creating better health and improving self-sufficiency in affordable housing communities. Additionally, safety net clinics across Central Texas will receive grants totaling $16,026,497 from the foundation. Below is a list of the grants.
- AIDS Services of Austin—to support specialized dental care for patients living with HIV (Jack Sansing Dental Clinic) and integrated medical social work for HIV-positive and high-risk HIV-negative persons. ($907,152)
- Any Baby Can of Austin, Inc.—to support the Children’s Hearing Aid Texas Program. ($102,000)
- Austin Clubhouse, Inc.—for transportation expansion and housing support services. ($189,600)
- Austin Recovery—to support men’s and women’s residential treatment services. ($850,000)
- Brighter Bites—to expand Brighter Bites Program in Austin, Texas. ($150,000)
- Center for Child Protection—for building the foundation for using the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Practice to treat childhood trauma. ($526,502)
- Central Texas Food Bank—to support produce access initiatives focused on low income households. ($47,465)
- Combined Community Action—to support aging in place services. ($80,000)
- CommuniCare Health Centers—to support Hays County Accessible Dental Health Program and Hays County Health Access Medical Program. ($1,279,084)
- Communities In Schools of Central Texas—to support CIS Integrated Student Supports at 72 campuses in Central Texas. ($2,205,600)
- Community Health Centers of South Central Texas, Inc.—to support Adult Dental Expansion Project, Elgin Expansion Project, and Building Healthy Communities in Bastrop & Caldwell Counties in Texas. ($3,304,176)
- CommUnityCare—to support its Vision Voucher Program. ($1,372,665)
- Council On At-Risk Youth—to support the PeaceRox Violence Prevention Program. ($150,000)
- Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, Inc.—to support permanent supportive housing pay for success initiative. ($800,000)
- El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission—for sustaining medical and social services at the El Buen Samaritano Campus. ($790,000)
- Family Crisis Center—to support comprehensive counseling and intervention services for youth clients. ($128,875)
- Family Independence Initiative—to expand the Family Independence Initiative Program in Austin, Texas. ($600,000)
- Foundation Communities—to support the health infrastructure at Waterloo Terrace Complex and wraparound services. ($2,170,100)
- Health Alliance for Austin Musicians—to support the Healthy Smiles Program for low-income uninsured musicians. ($513,000)
- Hope Alliance—to provide counseling for family and sexual violence survivors. ($215,898)
- Integral Care Operations—to support the Judge Guy Herman Center for Mental Health Crisis Care. ($1,619,613)
- LifeWorks—to provide wraparound services to increase self-sufficiency for youth affected by trauma and real talk evidence-based sexuality education program. ($4,276,002)
- Lone Star Circle of Care—for integrated dental home at Lone Star Circle of Care. ($5,939,033)
- Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman—for holistic prenatal and postpartum support for women of color. ($243,326)
- Manos de Cristo—to support dental home for underserved Central Texas adults. ($536,186)
- Mission Capital—to support Aligned Impact: Changing the Child Welfare Ecosystem. ($300,000)
- People’s Community Clinic—to expand adult dental program and enhance community health through value-based strategies. ($4,870,250)
- People’s Community Clinic—to support its Tandem Teen Prenatal & Parenting Program. ($508,928)
- Sacred Heart Community Clinic, Inc.—to support its adult dental program. ($7,500)
- Samaritan Health Ministries—to expand the adult dental program and support health care for the uninsured. ($201,250)
- SIMS Foundation—to support its Substance Use Treatment Program. ($340,000)
- Spirit Reins—to provide trauma-informed mental health services for low-income children and families. ($145,000)
- Sustainable Food Center—to build capacity for change in the food system. ($250,000)
- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital—for specialized prosthetics. ($100,000)
- United Way For Greater Austin—for improvements to its conference center and to expand Family Connects Nurse Home Visiting Program in Austin/Travis County, Texas. ($676,421)
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work—to support Black Mamas Community Collective: Improving the Maternal Postpartum Access and Outcomes of Black Women in Central Texas. ($400,000)
- Volunteer Healthcare Clinic—to support comprehensive medical services program. ($112,750)
- YMCA of Austin—for a YMCA Camp Moody capital grant. ($200,000)
Contact: Kristy Ozmun
Phone: 512.344.2010
Email: kozmun@hahnpublic.com
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation (Owings Mills, MD)
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation awarded more than $20 million in additional new grants. Good health is essential to help people move and remain out of poverty. Poor physical or mental health can prevent or complicate the pursuit of education, employment, and other opportunities for economic mobility. Below is a list of health-related grants.
- Asian Health Services—to support a pediatric and family care center, as well as an urgent care and medical triage clinic to meet the increased demand for services. ($750,000)
- Comprehensive Senior Care Corporation—to support the renovation of a new PACE (Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) center—an alternative to long-term institutional care for those 55 and over who have chronic medical needs, but are able to live safely in their homes with support. ($300,000)
- Regional Community Partners—to support the development of a new rural transportation incubator that will provide and strengthen transportation services for older adults. ($300,000)
- Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)—to support the construction of a SAGE center at Crotona Senior Residences, an LGBT-focused affordable housing development, that will provide support services for older adults, allowing them to age in their communities with independence and dignity. ($500,000)
- ShareBaby—to support the expansion of its programs in partnership with home-visiting programs, which provide diapers and other essential items for children and families. ($50,000)
- Women’s Courtyard—to support the general operations of this organization that provides vulnerable women and girls with comprehensive case management and critical wrap-around services. ($160,000)
Phone: 410.654.8500