The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is excited to announce its Grant Program for 2023 to meet the unmet healthcare and healthcare related needs of individuals, families, and communities throughout New York State.
Donor Name: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/26/2023
Size of the Grant: $75,000
Details:
Building upon the legacy of Mother Cabrini and the Catholic tradition of healing for the sick and caring for the poor, their Foundation supports programs that meet the unmet healthcare and healthcare related needs of individuals, families, and communities throughout New York State.
MCHF has provided critical funding to organizations of all sizes – from small community-based organizations to large healthcare systems. It has supported, in equal measure, organizations within the Catholic healthcare and social service sectors and other organizations that provide healthcare and social services, whether religiously-affiliated or not. Funding has reached every corner of the state and has responded to the needs identified by those who apply.
Through all of this, they have learned a few things:
- Their priority populations, though distinct, face many common challenges
- They want to understand more about those challenges and how they can contribute to change
- Responsive grantmaking – letting organizations take the lead to identify their needs – is valuable.
Program Areas
The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation provides funding through the following Programs:
- Access to Healthcare: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is committed to supporting programs that advance comprehensive access to healthcare, especially for low-income and vulnerable populations. Broadly defined, access to healthcare is the ability to obtain quality care when and where it is needed. Medically underserved communities and vulnerable populations contend with a range of barriers to access, the cumulative impact of which contributes to inequity in health outcomes. MCHF strives to support programs that help ensure all New Yorkers have access to the full complement of health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.
- Basic Needs: In order to promote health equity, MCHF recognizes that it is essential to address the basic needs of New Yorkers. Many individuals and families face significant challenges that impact their ability to achieve good health including food insecurity, inadequate housing, economic instability, and lack of access to vital social services.
- Healthcare Workshop: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation is committed to improving the health of vulnerable New Yorkers by supporting the development of a skilled and diverse healthcare workforce. The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated healthcare workforce shortages and exposed vulnerabilities across the continuum of care. To improve access to care, quality of care, and cultural competency in the health care delivery system, they seek to support the development and implementation of innovative and effective healthcare workforce initiatives.
- Mental and Behavioral Health: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation recognizes that mental and behavioral health are essential elements of overall health. Broadly defined, this includes an individual’s emotional, psychological, psychiatric, and social well-being, along with related behaviors, such as substance use and other addictions. MCHF understands that mental and behavioral health needs are particularly acute in historically marginalized communities and for populations that have been adversely affected by socioeconomic inequities.
- General Fund & Eight Populations: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation recognizes that their Programs will not include the full spectrum of opportunities to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable New Yorkers. The General Fund is designed to consider and support projects that do not fit within their Programs but that advance the health and well-being of their eight priority populations.
- Immigrants
- Justice-Involved Individuals
- Low-Income Individuals and Families
- Older Adults
- People with Disabilities
- Veterans
- Young Children, Pregnant Women, and New Moms and Dads
- Youth and Young Adults.
Funding Information
The Cabrini Foundation will generally consider grant proposals of $75,000 or greater.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Cabrini Foundation funds domestic section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service and the State of New York. Specifically, grants may only be made to a domestic public charity as described in Internal Revenue Code section 509(a)(1) or (2) or an exempt operating foundation as described in Internal Revenue Code section 4940(d)(2).
- All grants must adhere to and comply with the ethical principles, tenets, and teachings of the Roman Catholic Faith, including but not limited to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Applicant organizations are not required, however, to be affiliated with the Catholic Church to be eligible for grants.
- Applicant organizations generally should reside in New York State, and primarily serve New York State residents.
- Grants must benefit poor, disadvantaged, or underserved New York State residents.
- Applicants should have an annual budget of $750,000 or more.
- Grants must be used exclusively for the specific program, activity or project approved by the Cabrini Foundation, which, in all cases, must be in furtherance of the Cabrini Foundation’s charitable purposes.
- Applicant organizations must demonstrate that they exhibit sound financial management and governance practices and are capable of effectively carrying out the programs, activities or projects proposed to be funded.
- Applicants must demonstrate their capacity to work with the populations to be served by the project.
- The Cabrini Foundation plans to prioritize grant proposals that focus on providing direct services and programs.
For more information, visit MCHF.
