Vitalyst Health Foundation supports policies, systems, and community partnerships that address the root causes of health and advance well-being across Arizona. Its work may be especially relevant to organizations focused on civil rights / social justice and public health.
The Southern Equality Fund provides funding and training to Southern LGBTQ folks doing heroic organizing in its hometowns. The SEF is a project of the Campaign for Southern Equality, an advocacy organization based in Asheville, NC, and working for full lived and legal equality for LGBTQ Southerners.
The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust works locally and statewide in North Carolina to improve equitable access to opportunity. The Trust supports long-term, sustainable outcomes for thriving communities and residents through community listening, equity-centered action, and systems change.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation works with communities to create equitable conditions in which children and families can thrive in school, work, and life.
The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund partners with organizations and communities to advance equity, opportunity, and dignity, with a strong focus on California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Supports partnerships led by trusted community-based organizations that strengthen, connect, and align existing mental health and well-being services and supports for parents and caregivers of young children, prenatal through age five. Up to five partnerships will receive as much as $450,000 over three years, along with learning and evaluation technical assistance.
The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.
The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.
A school- and community-based evidence-based program that promotes positive behavior, social-emotional learning, and academic achievement
An evidence-based prevention framework that helps communities identify priorities and implement programs to improve youth outcomes
