Recognizing the critical importance of health and mental health care to individuals, families, and communities, the Foundation invests in programs or projects that achieve results aligned with the objectives outlined below. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of highest interest to us at this time.
Expand access to health care for underserved, uninsured, or vulnerable populations or communities.
(Priority will be given to projects aimed at systems-change or that are systemic or community-wide in scale or approach.)
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$200,000
To renew support for the Connections to Care pooled fund, a fund to help 15 community-based organizations meet their private matching fund requirements in a demonstration project aimed at improving access to and engagement with mental health care for vulnerable at-risk populations
Interfaith Medical Center
$100,000 (over eighteen months)
To support the launch of One Brooklyn Health System, a new health system that will preserve and enhance access to healthcare services in low-income and under-served neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Medicare Rights Center, Inc.
$66,000 (over eighteen months)
To promote and help to shape an improved program of integrated care for New Yorkers who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc.
$100,000
To support an Immigrant Health-Needs Advocacy Project aimed at strategically using health conditions and healthcare needs in advocacy and representation; and to improve the treatment of immigrants involved with the immigration enforcement system across a wide range of settings and circumstances
Expand and strengthen quality out-of-hospital health care for the most underserved and vulnerable populations.
(Priority will be given to programs capable of being sustained with earned or public sector revenue, producing outcomes of long-term value in a short time, and/or of reducing cost to the system while maintaining or improving quality of care to the individual.)
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation (FKA Common Ground Community H.D.F.C., Inc.)
$100,000
To help support an assessment of health-supportive services
Care for the Homeless
$100,000
To support the capacity to scale up delivery of primary care to homeless individuals in accord with a coordinated, disease-management, treatment-to-goal model
Center for Urban Community Services, Inc.
$35,000
To help support the Janian Medical Care Billing Infrastructure Project and its expanded focus on Medicaid billing for psychiatric services
The Child Center of NY, Inc.
$75,000 (over fifteen months)
To support an effort to better address social determinants of health by systematically conducting client needs assessments, referring for services and supports, and collaborating with Northwell Health to host, engage, and leverage the assistance of medical residents in this work
The Children's Health Fund
$75,000
To utilize a screening tool with homeless families to identify social factors hindering efforts to regain and retain housing, and to develop and pilot a Homelessness Risk Assessment Tool for use by primary care providers to identify and address risk factors of homelessness in their patients
City Futures, Inc.
$50,000 (over eighteen months)
To research, prepare, and strategically disseminate a report on Rethinking New York City's Senior Services: A Blueprint for Improving Services for New York's Fast-Growing and Increasingly Diverse Senior Population
Community Health Project, Inc. dba Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
$45,000
To help support the continued work of the LGBTQ Shared Services Collaborative in its effort to identify, and plan to address, gaps and unmet needs for support and services related to social determinants of health
Community Healthcare Network
$35,000 (over six months)
To assess needs, explore interest, and plan for a potential pilot project to provide infrastructure and/or capacity support to community-based organizations addressing social determinants of health in collaboration with a community healthcare partner
Corporation for Supportive Housing
$125,000 (over two years)
To implement and promote replication of the Bronx Frequent Users of Hospital Systems (Bronx FUSE) initiative, a collaborative multi-agency effort to identify homeless individuals in the healthcare system and place them in supportive housing
New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc.
$22,500
To identify and recommend models for the provision of suitable respite for the "medically homeless" in New York City
Sunnyside Community Services, Inc.
$65,000
To support the Dementia Coach Initiative, a coaching model to build the skills and confidence of home health aides working with clients who have Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia, with the aim of improving client outcomes and employee retention
Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc.
$50,000
To help ensure that homeless high-cost Medicaid users are effectively matched with supportive housing units, and strategically prioritized within NYS's Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative
United Hospital Fund of New York
$145,000 (over eighteen months)
For continued support of the Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative and the goal of strengthening clinical-community partnerships focused on addressing social determinants of health in early childhood
Urban Pathways, Inc.
$115,000 (over fifteen months)
To connect residents in four supportive housing sites to comprehensive community-based health care and supportive services, provide health education to residents and staff, and seek to reduce inappropriate use of emergency medical resources
Promote development and expansion of the workforce needed to support delivery of primary, community-based, and at-home health care and care management for the most vulnerable populations.
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc.
$75,000
To develop and disseminate best practices and advocate for policies that strengthen long-term care in New York, improving both the quality of home care jobs and the care that direct-care workers deliver at home to the most vulnerable