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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.
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.
We support local small- and mid-size organizations that are working to advance recommendations outlined in the Think Bigger Do Good Policy Series.
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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Contact Alyson about grantmaking, program related investments, and the paper series.
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Contact Samantha about program planning and evaluation consulting services.
Contact Caitlin about the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, the Annual Innovation Award, and trauma-informed programming.
Contact Joe about partnership opportunities, thought leadership, and the Foundation’s property.
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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.
We support organizations and programs that incorporate principles of diversity, equity and inclusion and trauma-informed practice. We believe it is critical for organizations and programs to make decisions using both community voice and data. It is our hope that grants we make bring about authentic partnership, collaboration, and systems change to improve emotional health and wellbeing for all. The Foundation prioritizes supporting organizations that serve and are led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
We accept both Letters of Inquiry and Grant Applications on a rolling basis throughout the fiscal year. Currently we are not taking any new FYE22 LOIs and Applications. We will be releasing the FYE23 LOI and Application very shortly.
All LOIs and Applications are reviewed quarterly by the Program Committee. The Foundation uses Foundant as our grant portal.
Review the eligibility requirements.
Create an account on our Foundant Grant Portal.
Submit a Letter of Inquiry in the Foundant Grant Portal.
Staff reviews LOI, completes initial round of due diligence, and makes recommendations to the Program Committee. Program Committee reviews LOI.
If the LOI is accepted by the Program Committee, staff will schedule a meeting to invite you to submit a full application.
Submit a full application.
Staff does the final round of due diligence and makes recommendations to the Program Committee and/or full board.
Approval or denial sent via Foundant and phone call.
a stronger, more effective, compassionate, and inclusive society where behavioral health is central
the historic and systemic inequalities that disadvantage and marginalize individuals, organizations, and communities
power responsibly
the voice of those who are often unheard
together diverse agents of change
improvement in programs, organizations, and systems by building skills in community
Review the eligibility requirements.
Create an account on our Foundant Grant Portal.
Submit a Letter of Inquiry in the Foundant Grant Portal.
Staff reviews LOI, completes initial round of due diligence, and makes recommendations to the Program Committee. Program Committee reviews LOI.
If the LOI is accepted by the Program Committee, staff will schedule a meeting to invite you to submit a full application.
Submit a full application.
Staff does the final round of due diligence and makes recommendations to the Program Committee and/or full board.
Approval or denial sent via Foundant and phone call.
a stronger, more effective, compassionate, and inclusive society where behavioral health is central
the historic and systemic inequalities that disadvantage and marginalize individuals, organizations, and communities
power responsibly
the voice of those who are often unheard
together diverse agents of change
improvement in programs, organizations, and systems by building skills in community
Feeding Philadelphians experiencing housing and food insecurity during COVID-19.
Deconstructing unconscious bias using neuroscience and mindfulness training with a peer mentorship program on the campus of Rowan College at Burlington County.
Grassroots effort to ensure Philadelphians have the local government leadership they deserve
CIFWI introduces mental and emotional health as a key component of health for the Chinese immigrant community.
The LiveWell Program is a peer-led, psychoeducational behavioral health program for the treatment and prevention of depression.
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.
Drexel University’s School of Education and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children are partnering to deliver a community-based, grass-roots approach to integrated evidence-based behavioral health services and interdisciplinary care.
TRACE (Toward Response and Community Equity), a year-long series that will track how and where the region’s government, philanthropic, civic and private sector is working toward a more just recovery.
The BlackStar Film Festival highlights filmmakers creating work about behavioral health in communities of color alongside representatives from film-centered organizations who have been offering mental health related support to their audiences.
Philanthropitch provides capital, training, and exposure for innovative and scalable nonprofits via a dynamic “fast-pitch” competition.
Amplifying high-impact opportunities that advance the field of mental health, addiction, and community well-being, Mindful Philanthropy is expanding its advisory practice, launching new cornerstone projects, and more.
The Camden Coalition is engaging directly with patients and primary care providers (PCP) to reduce well-known barriers to care for individuals with behavioral health needs.
Core to the KCR Fund’s approach is a participatory grantmaking process that elevates resident and community provider experiences and priorities, placing the power to make funding decisions in their hands.
The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund will prioritize equity, using a trust-based model of grantmaking over the next 18-24 months.
Virtua Health’s Mental Health Awareness Program at COVID-19 Vaccine Mega Site
To heal the psychological and emotional impact of homicides and reduce trauma-related reactive violence in the City of Chester, PA.
Uplift Center for Grieving Children helps children grieving a death to heal and grow through their grief, while strengthening families, communities and professionals’ understanding of how best to respond to their needs.
The Philadelphia Bail Fund pays bail at the earliest possible moment for people who are indigent and cannot afford bail — ideally before they are transferred from their holding cell to jail. They also educate policymakers and lobby for reform.
A report by The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund which reviews the financial health of our region’s nonprofit sector.
Safehouse is an evidence-based public health approach to addressing overdose prevention and saving lives in Philadelphia.
A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind a national crisis: mental illness.
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.
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.
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.
Lutnick Library’s Quaker & Special Collections contains Friends Hospital daybooks, manuscripts, and archives.
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.
Youth Mental Health First Aid training uses information and knowledge to reduce mental health stigma 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.
The ScattergoodEthics Program aims to elevate the national conversation about the ethics of research, treatment, and delivery of behavioral health care.
Impact Services Corporation and NKCDC launch a new model for community development that addresses community-based trauma, its effects on individual residents, and the community as a whole in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood.
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Gemma Services 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.
The National Press Foundation produced a one-day workshop for journalist focused on behavioral health issues.
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.
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.
Like-Minded Leaders united at the Democratic National Convention for a rally to transform America’s approach to mental health and substance use disorders.
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.
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.
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy has released a donor toolkit focused on behavioral health.
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