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Grantmaking
We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
Participatory Funds
Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
to impacted communities to direct resources and make funding decisions.
Special Grant Programs
We build public and private partnerships to administer grant dollars toward targeted programs.
Program Related Investments
We provide funds at below-market interest rates that can be particularly useful to start, grow, or sustain a program, or when results cannot be achieved with grant dollars alone.
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Tia Burroughs Clayton, MSS
Learning and Community Impact Consultant
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
Contact Alyson about grantmaking, program related investments, and the paper series.
Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
Contact Caitlin about the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, the Annual Innovation Award, and trauma-informed programming.
Joe Pyle, MA
President
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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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Stop the Risk
Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund
Stop the Risk is a time-limited intervention that helps people use fewer drugs, restart working, and set up permanent housing for themselves.
About
Stop the Risk is a unique middle step between homelessness and living in permanent housing. Similar to shelters and respite services, we provide increased safety, protection from the elements, and hygiene facilities. But unlike shelters and respite services, Stop the Risk also provides harm reduction support including intensive case management and a recovering community that allows off-site drug use. This harm reduction program model addresses the needs of people who use drugs and are experiencing homelessness. Another activity of the program design is the beautification of the 3000 block of Kensington Avenue. Our participants clean the sidewalks and the street as both a community service and a recovery activity. Stop the Risk is a time-limited intervention that helps people use fewer drugs, restart working, and set up permanent housing for themselves. Utilizing the intensive case management to goal set each participant’s individual goals, participants find their harm reduction and/or recovery pathway. We provide targeted outreach and engagement in communities to address opioid use, prevent overdoses, and promote harm reduction. Everyday, we reach out to people using drugs on the streets of Kensington and offer harm reduction and recovery information and support. We then engage a subset of these individuals to become Stop the Risk participants. Both outreach and engagement address opioid use, which in turn prevents overdoses.