GHF has an annual grantmaking process.
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Our Mission: The Carver Center for Families (CCF) strives to preserve, strengthen, and celebrate families.
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Are you ready to elevate your impact in the nonprofit sector? We are thrilled to announce upcoming training. Click to learn more.
Registration deadline October 16, 2024
What makes a healthy community? At Georgetown Health Foundation, we believe good health in our community depends on our heads and hearts – which is what we’re putting to work for our Georgetown neighbors. We’re using our heads to conduct and analyze research about our community’s health.
Georgetown Health Foundation’s multi-faceted philanthropy is grounded in our rich history of relationship-building. We leverage our resources to generate and accelerate positive change in our community’s health through programs and connections.
Georgetown Health Foundation supports nonprofit organizations offering a range of safety net services, from primary health care to emergency shelter through our grantmaking.
Georgetown Health Foundation generates and accelerates positive change in our Community’s health.
The Foundation works collaboratively with its community to improve the health of Georgetown residents through partnerships, experience, knowledge, and funding.
We imagine our Community as one in which all are empowered to build and sustain healthy, productive lives and we believe the health of Georgetown residents is influenced by the environment in which they live.
Georgetown Health Foundation agrees with the World Health Organization’s definition of health as ‘a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of infirmity.
We believe the social determinants of health (SDoH) are powerful influencers on this comprehensive definition of health.
“The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems.”
Due to the ongoing and prolonged impact of COVID-19, our funding in 2022 will prioritize basic needs, as well as social determinants of health supporting such basic needs.
GHF applies a health equity lens to our goals and strategies. Inequities in health are often socially determined. Health equity strategies seek to increase opportunities for everyone, regardless of their circumstances, to live the healthiest life possible. GHF views the pursuit of health equity as a way to correct or challenge factors outside a person’s control that negatively impact their health, e.g., lack of resources, education, or income.
Our current funding priorities are:
PRIORITY 1. BASIC NEEDS – Food, Shelter/Housing
PRIORITY 2. BASIC NEEDS/Social Determinants of Health (Direct) –Personal Security/Mental Health, Healthcare, Transportation, Child/Out-of-School/Homebound Adult Care
PRIORITY 3. Social Determinants of Health (Supportive) – Emergency financial assistance, Job Training
Post-pandemic, GHF plans to continue to pursue strategic priorities informed by our community-based research. To learn more about these community recommendations, please click here to explore the links.
Georgetown Health Foundation Awards $1.75 Million to 2024 Grant Partners GHF works interdependently with its grant partners to achieve the common goal of improving community health. Partners are carefully vetted by board-appointed Grants Committee members and GHF staff. We are privileged to support the following organizations and initiatives in 2024...
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