Applications are now being accepted for the Partnership for Better Health Grant.
Donor Name: Partnership for Better Health champions
State: Pennsylvania
County: Adams County (PA), Cumberland County (PA), Perry County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/03/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Partnership for Better Health champions and invests in ideas, initiatives, and collaborations to advance equity and improve the health of the people and communities in the region.
The Partnership for Better Health is committed to building an equitable, just, and inclusive community investment. Aligned with values of Equity, Advocacy, Collaboration, Stewardship and Innovation, the Partnership for Better Health provides funding opportunities to support 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.
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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.
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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.
Priorities
They will fund organizations and projects that demonstrate a commitment to the following types of strategies:
- Addressing 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.
Types of Grants
- General Operating Support for Equity Leaders
- Flexible funding for existing grantees that can be used at their discretion; for organizations working on priority issues related to addressing health equity and the root causes of poor health among underserved or marginalized populations.
- Grant size: $10,000 – $50,000/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: $5,000.01 – $100,000/year
- Spark Grants
- Funding to meet an emergent community need, aligned with the social determinants of health, in a responsive manner.
- Grant size: up to $5,000/year
Eligibility Criteria
All grants will adhere to the following eligibility requirements:
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For General Operating Grants, applicants must be 501(c)(3) organizations, received a grant from the foundation within the last 3 years, not using a fiscal sponsor or the EIN of a larger organization, and must provide a 990, 990 EZ or 990-N reflective of their own entity;
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For Project and Spark Grants, applicants and/or fiscal sponsors must be 501(c)(3) organizations;
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All grants must benefit residents of the Partnership’s defined geographic service area to include all of Perry County, Western and Central Cumberland County, Northern Adams County and Greater Shippensburg;
For more information, visit Partnership for Better Health champions.
