Funding Details
Program goal
To promote an equitable, patient-focused, and cost-effective health and behavioral health care delivery system in four ways.
Grants are made to
Monitor—through research and advocacy—health care reform implementation to ensure:
- Maintenance of a strong and viable health and behavioral health care safety net system.
- Access to comprehensive and coordinated care for those who remain uninsured or under-insured.
- Availability of screening, early intervention, and referral for effective treatment of disease.
Build the capacity of New York City’s health, behavioral health, and human service sectors to succeed in a reformed health care system by:
- Developing effective skills training for the professional and paraprofessional health care workforce.
- Strengthening financial and information technology systems to allow transition to value-based payments.
Reduce health disparities between low- and higher-income neighborhoods through investments in disadvantaged communities that:
- Improve indoor and outdoor air quality.
- Provide safe and inviting parks and open space.
- Promote access to affordable and healthy food.
- Engage residents in efforts to encourage physical activity and healthy diets.
Foster the independence of people with mental illness and substance use histories by:
- Expanding innovative programs that offer clinical care as well as practical services, such as housing, employment, and education.
- Advocating for expansion of participant-led or participant-informed service models that are sustainable and effective.
Read the background paper that informed this grantmaking strategy here.
Recent grants
| Organization | Summary |
|---|---|
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University |
to bring community groups and academic centers together to increase funding for health research. |
Helen Keller International |
to provide vision screenings, eye exams, and eyeglasses to low-income New Yorkers. |
CATCH Global Foundation
|
to reduce vaping in New York City public schools by educating students about the risks of e-cigarettes. |
New York School-Based Health Foundation |
for school-based health centers in downstate New York to help young, newly arrived immigrants cope with trauma and other mental health challenges. |
Mount Sinai Hospital |
to provide coordinated medical and behavioral health care to newly arrived young migrants. |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center |
to open a state-licensed behavioral health clinic for LGBQT+ New Yorkers. |
Engagewell IPA |
to expand virtual care for people with addiction. |
The Coalition for Behavioral Health, Inc. |
to help behavioral health agencies respond to opportunities offered by the federal certified community behavioral health clinics program and state-led Medicaid changes. |
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy |
to strengthen New York’s capacity to respond to public health emergencies. |
NYC Health + Hospitals |
to support and train public hospital nurses, particularly to provide care for patients in crisis. |
God’s Love We Deliver, Inc. |
to feed cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
to help immigrants with cancer get treatment. |
New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. |
for legal services to help people with cancer get treatment. |
R.I.P. Medical Debt |
to develop partnerships with hospitals to acquire and relieve the medical debt of low-income New Yorkers. |
Cancer Care, Inc. |
for financial aid to low-income cancer patients. |
NYU Langone Hospitals |
to provide medical and rehabilitation services to injured, low-income, classical ballet dancers. |
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center |
to stabilize the city’s leading community clinic for people with, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS. |
Floating Hospital, Inc. |
to vaccinate newly arrived migrants. |
Care for the Homeless |
to vaccinate newly arrived migrants. |
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York |
to increase the efficiency of operations of five recently merged Planned Parenthood affiliates in New York. |
HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc. |
to train chaplains from New York City, Suffolk, Nassau, and Westchester counties on new federal guidelines that authorize provision of pastoral care in health care settings. |
Healthcare Association of New York State |
to help health care providers in New York City and Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties improve care for older adults. |
New York Birth Control Access Project |
to advocate for increased access to birth control. |
Mount Sinai Hospital |
to help low-income trans-femme New Yorkers under the age of 30 get gender-affirming medical treatments. |
Urban Health Plan, Inc. |
to help a federally qualified health center in the Bronx provide coordinated, comprehensive care for the elderly. |
New York University School of Global Public Health |
to use artificial intelligence models to study heart disease. |
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