The Partnership for Better Health is committed to building an equitable, just, and inclusive community investment process and to supporting our local nonprofit community.
Aligned with our values of Equity, Advocacy, Collaboration, Stewardship and Innovation, the Partnership for Better Health supports projects that improve the health of individuals and communities by focusing on social determinants of health and health equity. The foundation seeks nonprofit partners with the capacity to address these crucial issues through their work.
- Social Determinants of Health are the structural factors and conditions that affect everyone’s health. People’s homes, schools, jobs and neighborhoods significantly influence health outcomes. Social determinants of health include socioeconomic status, the environment, neighborhood safety, social support networks, and access to resources to meet daily needs, such as safe housing and healthy foods. Where people live, learn, work and play matters. The Partnership seeks to create strong social and physical environments that promote health for all.
- Health equity exists when all people have fair and just access, opportunity, and resources to achieve their highest potential for health. To reach health equity, communities must take collective action to address policies, systems, and structures that influence health.
Grant Types:
- General Operating Grants for Organizations Leading in Equity Work
- Flexible funding for existing grantees that can be used at their discretion to advance health equity in its missional efforts.
- Grant size: $10,000 – $100,000/year
- Project Grants to Address Root Issues
- Funding for a specific project to address the root causes of one or more social determinants of health among an underserved or marginalized population.
- Grant size: $10,000 – $100,000/year
- Spark Grants (previously known as Mini-Grants)
- Funding to support opportunities to meet a community need in a responsive manner.
- Grant size: $1,000 – $5,000/year
Deadlines:
These are the deadline dates for all grant funds:
- Apply by August 1 – Decision by November 15
- Apply by December 1 – Decision by March 15
- Apply by March 1 – Decision by June 15
Additional funding opportunities through Requests for Proposals or Application may be announced with different deadlines.
Resources about Updated Grantmaking Framework:
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Questions & Answers
For all grants, an organization must be a 501(c)(3)
- Fiscal sponsors are permissible for organizations that are not a 501(c)(3) for Project Grants and Spark Grants only.
- Churches that use the tax Identification number of a larger organization and have a group exemption will need to complete the application indicating that larger organization is the fiscal sponsor.
- GROUP - Generally, a central organization holding a group exemption letter, whose subordinate units covered by the group exemption are also eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions, even though they are not separately listed (deductibility limitation dependent on various factors).
- Apply for more than one grant type per year but not two of the same type; and
- Request support for new or pilot projects that address emerging opportunities or needs.
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- Endowment drives
- Annual fund drives or loans
- Advertising in yearbooks or programs
- Electoral activities
- Individual scholarships, internships or awards
- Retroactive expenses or projects
- “Athons” or other similar sponsorships
- Athletic or alumni activities
- Operating deficits
- Individual medical bills
- Capital expenditures in excess of $50,000 for program-related needs
- Any portion of fees to a national or state association
- Determine if your organization and the project you are proposing meet our general eligibility requirements.
- Visit our online grants management system
- If you’ve never used our system before, select “Create New Account.”
- If you are a returning grantee, supply your email address and password to access the system. Review your contact information and select "Apply Now."
- Select General Operating Support, Project, or the Spark grant application process and proceed.
- Strong alignment with the foundation's priorities:
- Addressing one or more of the social determinants of health.
- Advancing health equity by addressing systems and conditions that create inequities.
- Using effective and/or innovative strategies in creating positive health outcomes.
- Fostering collaboration focused on health justice.
- Advancing systems change solutions (systemic strategies that are designed to improve all aspects of how a set of organizations, institutions or systems work).
- Centering people with lived experience in the planning, leadership and implementation of the work—these are people with firsthand experience of the health challenges and inequities being addressed.
- Utilizing policy advocacy strategies that build the power of marginalized communities toward systems change.
- Significance of the need being addressed
- Capacity of the applicant to accomplish its goals and objectives and its closeness to the issue being addressed; and
- Appropriate budget.
In addition to our core funding priorities, the Partnership for Better Health develops Requests for Applications to incentivize work in strategic focus areas. Learn more about our current and recent Requests for Applications, below:
Current Requests for Applications- There are no current Requests for Applications.
- Health Justice
Due: May 26, 2023
Grants of $25,000 - $50,000
- Seeking Strategic Partners in Policy Advocacy
Due: February 1, 2023
One year grants of $10,000 - $75,000 - UBUNTU | Collaborative Partnerships to Advance Health Equity
Due: February 2, 2023
Up to 4 awards, with awards of up to $15,000 each - Achieving Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems in South Central PA
Due: February 28, 2022
Up to 5 awards, with average award estimates of $50,000 each - Spark of Change | Counter-Narratives | Health Equity Grants
Due: March 3, 2022
Up to 10 awards, with awards of up to $5,000 each
Northern Adams County Zip Codes
17303, 17304, 17306, 17307, 17316, 17324, 17337, 17372,
Cumberland County Zip Codes
17007, 17013, 17015, 17065, 17081, 17240, 17241, 17257, 17266, 17324
Perry County Zip Codes
17006, 17020, 17024, 17037, 17040, 17045, 17047, 17053, 17062, 17068, 17069, 17071, 17074 , 17090
- Under Development for 2024 Grantmaking Framework.