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Nonprofit Funding Area

Health and Behavioral Health New York City

Learn more about how we fund health and behavioral health in New York City. To find out what else we fund, explore our Info for Nonprofits page.    

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Grantee Planned Parenthood of Greater New York provides a range of reproductive and other health services. Photo by Caroline Praderio

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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