The City of Philadelphia is partnering with the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation to launch the Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund, a citywide grant fund that returns opioid settlement funds as critical investments and resources to communities impacted by the overdose crisis in Philadelphia.
Donor Name: Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation
State: Washington
County: Philadelphia County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Details:
The Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund will award grants to community-based organizations that engage residents in neighborhoods most affected by the overdose epidemic. The Fund will invest in direct programs in overdose prevention, substance use awareness, and harm reduction, in addition to holistic programs that address community trauma, stigma associated with substance use, and promote safety and mental well-being for communities and community-based workers in the substance use field. Overall, the Fund aims to mobilize trusted community messengers in efforts to repair and revitalize impacted communities.
Focus Areas
- Expand
- community-based prevention, education, and harm reduction
- Promote and facilitate connections
- connections to behavioral health treatment and recovery services
- Address and respond inclusively
- to complex, unmet community needs related to substance use for communities of color and underserved populations
- Heal
- Individual and collective trauma related to substance use
- Reduce stigma
- related to substance use in communities
- Promote public safety and wellness
- for community workers in the substance use field
Grant Types
- Capacity Building Grants: Capacity Building Grants are for $20,000 that support a wide range of general, operating uses. Funding can also serve as capacity building grants to support organizational development, training, technical assistance and research.
- Program Grants: Program grants are for $100,000 that provide support for programs and projects that directly advance at least one of the six grant focus areas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit Status
- Is the organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or have a fiscal sponsor?
- Geographic Location
- Is the organization based in and serving communities located in Philadelphia County?
- Community Engagement
- Can the organization demonstrate they have a track record of engaging Philadelphia residents?
- Organization Budget Size
- Does the organization have an annual budget of $5 million or less?
- Representation
- The Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund is dedicated to advancing racial and socioeconomic equity in response to health disparities experienced by underserved communities in the overdose crisis. The grant process will prioritize organizations whose leadership and board reflects the local community they serve.
For more information, visit Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund.
