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We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.

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Our annual $25,000 prize is awarded to a cutting-edge idea that holds the potential to catalyze progress in behavioral health.

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Our participatory grantmaking alters the traditional process of philanthropic giving by empowering service providers and community-based organizations to define the strategy around a specific issue area or population.

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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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Aminata Diallo
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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.

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Overview

We accept both letters of inquiries and applications on a rolling basis and they are reviewed quarterly. The Foundation uses an online process for both letter of inquires and applications and all communications are handled through the grant portal. If your letter of inquiry represents a realistic, strategic, and potentially successful opportunity to advance the mission of the Foundation, you will be invited to submit a full proposal. While it is important for your request to align with our vision and mission, that does not guarantee an invitation to apply. Other factors, such as available grant funds and other projects under consideration or in the process, will impact acceptance of requests.

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    For review at March Meetings

  • May 1st

    For review at June Meetings

  • August 1st

    For review at September Meetings

  • November 1st

    For review at December Meetings

Steps to Receiving a Grant

  • Step 1

    Review the eligibility requirements.

  • Step 2

    Create an account on our Foundant Grant Portal.

  • Step 3

    Submit a Letter of Inquiry in the Foundant Grant Portal.

  • Step 4

    If the Letter of Inquiry is accepted by the grants committee, the staff will schedule a meeting to invite you to submit a full application.

  • Step 5

    Submit a full grant application.

Eligibility Requirements

  • 501(c)(3) Organization

    Is your organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code?

  • Behavioral Health Focused

    Do your programs address mental health and/or substance use issue?

  • New Idea

    Is your program a pilot project, the early adoption of a program, or a novel policy and/or advocacy effort? The Scattergood Foundation has made a conscious decision not to support capital or general operating support for organizations.

  • Geographic Location

    Does your program serve the Greater Philadelphia or have national impact? We prioritize funding in the Greater Philadelphia area but have the flexibility to fund organizations outside of the area, if the program has national implications. 

  • Meeting our Funding Priorities

    Does your program meet several of our funding priorities?

Funding Priorities

  • Viability

    Is there reasonable promise that this program will become economically independent and viable, or otherwise replicable?

  • Collaboration

    Does the organization invest their own resources, leverage additional third party funds, and/or partner with other organizations in the implementation of the program?

  • Innovative

    Is this program innovative and additive to the field of behavioral health?

  • Leadership

    Does the program nurture and develop individual or institutional leadership, promote reasoned advocacy and de-stigmatization in the field?

  • Impact

    Does the program have measurable performance outcomes that improve health care, impact public policies including systemic reform, and/or promote knowledge and understanding?

  • Integration

    Does the program promote integration of behavioral health services into the community and the larger healthcare delivery system in the belief that this will improve outcomes of both physical and behavioral health?

  • Workforce Development

    Is the program promoting workforce development throughout the system including policy development, administration, and direct service delivery?

  • Cultural Competence

    Does the organization recognize, incorporate, practice, and value cultural diversity?

 

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  • Step 1

    Review the eligibility requirements.

  • Step 2

    Create an account on our Foundant Grant Portal.

  • Step 3

    Submit a Letter of Inquiry in the Foundant Grant Portal.

  • Step 4

    If the Letter of Inquiry is accepted by the grants committee, the staff will schedule a meeting to invite you to submit a full application.

  • Step 5

    Submit a full grant application.

  • 501(c)(3) Organization

    Is your organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code?

  • Behavioral Health Focused

    Do your programs address mental health and/or substance use issue?

  • New Idea

    Is your program a pilot project, the early adoption of a program, or a novel policy and/or advocacy effort? The Scattergood Foundation has made a conscious decision not to support capital or general operating support for organizations.

  • Geographic Location

    Does your program serve the Greater Philadelphia or have national impact? We prioritize funding in the Greater Philadelphia area but have the flexibility to fund organizations outside of the area, if the program has national implications. 

  • Meeting our Funding Priorities

    Does your program meet several of our funding priorities?

  • Viability

    Is there reasonable promise that this program will become economically independent and viable, or otherwise replicable?

  • Collaboration

    Does the organization invest their own resources, leverage additional third party funds, and/or partner with other organizations in the implementation of the program?

  • Innovative

    Is this program innovative and additive to the field of behavioral health?

  • Leadership

    Does the program nurture and develop individual or institutional leadership, promote reasoned advocacy and de-stigmatization in the field?

  • Impact

    Does the program have measurable performance outcomes that improve health care, impact public policies including systemic reform, and/or promote knowledge and understanding?

  • Integration

    Does the program promote integration of behavioral health services into the community and the larger healthcare delivery system in the belief that this will improve outcomes of both physical and behavioral health?

  • Workforce Development

    Is the program promoting workforce development throughout the system including policy development, administration, and direct service delivery?

  • Cultural Competence

    Does the organization recognize, incorporate, practice, and value cultural diversity?

 

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Emerging Scholars Program

Scattergood Program for Applied Behavioral Health Ethics

WHYY Behavioral Health Reporting and Training

Overdose Prevention Site

Framework for High Impact Philanthropy in Behavioral Health

Active
Innovation

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy is developing a donor toolkit focused on behavioral health.

Grantee

Center for High Impact Philanthropy

CCTC Advocacy Event

Complete
Innovation

Through the advocacy event, Children’s Crisis Treatment Center works to cultivate a regional public health response to child and family mental health through education, collaboration, innovation, and integration.

Grantee

Children's Crisis Treatment Center

Emerging Scholars Program

Active
Innovation

Active Minds aims to expand the body of literature, creative expression, and discourse devoted to mental health and substance use with a particular emphasis on issues relevant to college students.

Grantee

Active Minds

Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Assessment to Intervention Model

Active
Innovation

Training school personnel to identify and support children at risk for serious emotional and behavioral disturbances while recognizing the influence of a trauma is a promising solution for efficient and accurate identification of mental health risk in schools.

Grantee

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

Like Minded Rally

Complete
Innovation

Like-Minded Leaders united at the Democratic National Convention for a rally to transform America’s approach to mental health and substance use disorders.

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The Kennedy Forum

Building Evaluation Capacity Initiative

Active
Innovation

The Building Evaluation Capacity Initiative (BECI) is a tailored program of consultation and training across two years to build program evaluation capacity in Greater Philadelphia organizations.

Grantee

The Consultation Center

Leveraging the Opportunity to Transform the Environment to Foster Better Reentry

Active
Innovation

The Mayor’s Office of Reintegration Services (RISE) underwent a re-branding and program model shift from a unilateral service delivery model to a hybrid model. 

Grantee

Mayor's Office of Reintegration Services

What’s at Stake as Washington Tackles Mental Health?

Complete
Innovation

The National Press Foundation produced a one-day workshop for journalist focused on behavioral health issues.

Grantee

National Press Foundation

Precision Care for Better Outcomes in Psychiatric Residential Treatment for Children

Active
Innovation

Silver Springs launched a predictive and prescriptive modeling project with the goal of being able to predict with precision the best pathway to success for children served by in their Residential Treatment program.

Grantee

Silver Springs

Trauma Informed Community Development

Active
Innovation

Impact Services Corporation and New Kensington CDC (NKCDC) propose to launch a model for community development that addresses the over- arching issue of community-based trauma in the neighborhood of Kensington, its effects on individual residents, and the community as a whole.

Grantee

Impact Services Corporation

Scattergood Program for Applied Behavioral Health Ethics

Active
Innovation

The ScattergoodEthics Program aims to elevate the national conversation about the ethics of research, treatment, and delivery of behavioral health care.

Grantee

ScattergoodEthics

Youth Mental Health First Aid Implementation in Coatesville

Complete
Innovation

Youth Mental Health First Aid training uses information and knowledge to remove the stigma that so often surrounds mental health issues, by teaching individuals how to properly assess mental health concerns and how to help our youth take the necessary steps to seek treatment when they need it. 

Grantee

Brandywine Health Foundation

Designing for Dignity

Active
Innovation

A Master of Science Design Research course with a concentration on health in the designed environment, available to students of the Westphal and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

Grantee

Drexel University

Quakers and Mental Health

Active
Innovation

Magill Library’s Quaker & Special Collections contains Friends Hospital daybooks, manuscripts, and archives.

Grantee

Haverford College

Jefferson Trauma Education Network

Active
Innovation

The Jefferson Trauma Education Network serves as a trauma training hub and resource repository, drawing on the expertise of Jefferson’s Community and Trauma Counseling program, along with regional and national partners.

Grantee

Jefferson University Trauma Education Network

Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative

Active
Innovation

The Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative (PHFC) strives to improve the effectiveness of health funders’ initiatives by collaborating, networking, sharing best practices, and creating a unified voice among funders working in communities across Pennsylvania.

Grantee

Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative

WHYY Behavioral Health Reporting and Training

Active
Innovation

WHYY has built one of the only behavioral health reporting desks in the country, providing award-winning, multimedia coverage of behavioral health issues across the Delaware Valley.

Grantee

WHYY

Bedlam

Active
Innovation

A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind a national crisis: mental illness.

Grantee

International Documentary Association

Bedlam Documentary

Overdose Prevention Site

Active
Innovation

Safehouse is an evidence-based public health approach to addressing overdose prevention and saving lives in Philadelphia.

Grantee

Safehouse

Safehouse seeks to be first safe injection site in the U.S.

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