Grants Awarded Archive
Grants Awarded
Community Health
Allegheny Health Network — Cardiovascular Institute
$125,000
To support the Heart to Heart Health two-year pilot initiative which will address hypertension an dheart failure in the North Side of Pittsburgh.
Allegheny Health Network — Jefferson Hospital Emergency Department
$230,000
To support salaries, training, and equipment for two community health workers for the Front Door Initiative for Social Emergency Medicine.
East Liberty Family Health Care Center, Inc.
$200,000
To purchase a mobile medical and dental van to provide health care to individuals living in the top nine uninsured, underinsured, and underserved zip codes throughout the East Liberty Family Health Care Center service area.
Project Destiny
$885,000
To support Project Destiny's Thrive18 SDOH community initiative.
Family Health
MAYA Organization
$50,000
To increase the impact of the perinatal support program through the implementation of the JJ Way, a health care delivery program approach to reduce health disparities in preterm birth and low-birth-weight babies in at-risk populations.
Vitalant
$90,000
To support the Blood Science Foundation’s Regional Blood Donation Challenge campaign.
Service Delivery Systems
A Call to Care, Inc.
$100,000
To support A Call to Care's (ACTC) free two-day dental clinic called Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh's (MOMPGH) and its newly established Rural Clinic Expansion program. MOMPGH will be held August 5-6, 2022 at the Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh.
Highlands Health: Laurel Highlands Free and Charitable Medical Clinic
$55,000
To support Highlands Health's plan to transition from a Free Clinic to a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alike.
Improving Capacity for Pennsylvania's Free Clinics
$425,000
To provide capacity building grants through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process to free clinics throughout Highmark Foundation’s 62 county service region in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania CASA Association
$82,500
To build additional training curriculums for the existing Healthcare Advocacy program to include Advocating for Health Equity: Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and LGBTQ+ Health Disparities in the child Welfare System.
PG Charities
$100,000 "Sponsorship"
Presenting sponsor of the 2022 Goodness section in the Post-Gazette. The purpose of the Goodness section is to spread good news happening in the Pittsburgh region.
Community Health
Allegheny Health Network – Moving the Needle of Health Equity 2.0
$150,000
To support the Moving the Needle of Healthy Equity 2.0 program which will provide screenings and vaccination clinics to populations with disproportionally poor health outcomes in partnership with community organizations.
Allegheny Health Network – Talent Attraction Program Jefferson (TAPJ)
$190,000
To support the Talent Attraction Program at Jefferson Hospital, a comprehensive allied helath program designed with direct career ladders within the hospital to bring employment to underrepresented populations in the South Hills and Mon Valley region.
Allegheny Health Network – George J. Magovern, Sr. Clerkship
$10,000
To support the George J. Magovern, Sr. Underrepresented Minority Scholars Program.
Family Health
Project Build Them Up, Inc.
$168,000
To support the Passport 2 Fitness program, a customized health and wellness program including fitness training, nutritional empowerment, COVID-19 testing, health education, and assessments in partnership with the faith-based community on the north Side of Pittsburgh.
Service Delivery Systems
Adagio Health
$168,000
To support the Adagio health Women Veterans Needs Assessment which will identify the services and supports needed by women veterans who receive health care services from Adagio health, gaps in the availability of those services, and the unmet needs that Adagio can address to better support women veterans.
Free Medical Clinic of DuBois
$25,000
Improving Capacity for Pennsylvania’s Free Clinics request for proposals focused on innovative preventive health programs and services or expanding existing services in the areas of behavioral health, chronic disease management, data infrastructure, or staffing costs.
Community Health
Allegheny Health Network
$5,000,000
To support Allegheny Health Network's Financial Assistance Program which provides financial aid for patients with limited or no medical insurance.
The Advanced Leadership Institute, Inc. (TALI)
$200,000
To support TALI's programming that contributes to the development of Black professionals in the Pittsburgh region.
Service Delivery Systems
Face2Face Healing, Inc.
$116,000
To support the organization's expansion by hiring an additional clinical therapist.
Chronic Disease
The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania
$75,000
To support the National Diabetes Prevention Program expansion, education and awareness efforts into Crawford and Venango counties.
Community Health
Allegheny Health Network
$1,100,000
To support AHN’s nursing scholars pilot program, an effort to address the critical shortage of nurses.
Caring Foundation
$250,000
To support peer support programs for grieving children and adults at The Caring Place.
The Erie Community Foundation
$25,000
A planning grant to explore the feasibility of implementing the Supporting Housing Project and Pipeline for Erie County.
Friendship Circle
$100,000
To support the development of a new Teen Wellness Initiative, a combination of programs focused on reducing the stigma associated with mental health and wellness support and educating and engaging teens on health and wellness topics.
Inroad, Inc.
$75,000
To support the continuation of the INROADS internship and scholarship program to improve the diversity of talent across the
Highmark Health enterprise.
Manchester Bidwell Corporation
$250,000
To support Bidwell Training Center's medical career training programs over two years.
Family Health
Adagio Health
$25,000
To support the 2023 Annual Better Health Outcomes Speaker Series as the Better Health Champion Presenting Sponsor.
Destiny of Faith
$44,000
To support the Faith-Based Health Collaborative’s programs including, quarterly health workshops, the minority health summit and the Pastor's Luncheon.
Maternal & Family Health services
$100,000
To provide oral health services to low-income pregnant and post-partum women and children enrolled in the Circle of Care program.
Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (PBGH)
$75,000
To sponsor a three-part educational series in 2023 addressing African American, Indian/Alaskan Native Americans’ health inequities and high maternal and infant death rates.
Service Delivery Systems
Hospital Central Services Blood Center dba Miller-Keystone Blood Center
$120,000
To support the Blood Donor Diversity program, an outreach and awareness effort to increase the number of Hispanic blood donors.
LGBT Center of Greater Reading
$160,000
To support the hiring of a program coordinator and two service coordinators to expand access to affirming primary care providers and increase care coordination of counseling and crisis intervention. The center will serve LGBTQ individuals located in Columbia Borough, Lancaster County.
Metro Community Health Center
$125,000
To hire two licensed practical nurses (LPNs) to support Metro Community Health Center’s capacity to address the growing needs of chronic care patients.
Northampton County Area Community College Foundation (NCC)
$37,700
To purchase two high technology, state-of-the-art Simulaids Casualty Care Rescue Manikins to improve NCC’s emergency medicine training program for emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical responder (EMR) and instructor certification.
Primary Care Health Services
$180,000
To support the expansion of the current dental health services program and addition of two new dental clinics.
Chronic Disease
American Cancer Society
$25,000
To support a planning grant to assess if Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the state will adopt the American Cancer Society's (ACS) national Return to Screening campaign.
American Heart Association
$150,000
To support American Heart Association's (AHA) Pressure for Change initiative across Pennsylvania.
Lending Hearts
$95,000
To support phase two of the Lending Hearts Integrative Oncology Wellness Program, a program which provides emotional, social and physical support to young adult patients, their families and support systems.
Community Health
Allegheny Health Network
$500,000
To support the implementation of the First Steps Pittsburgh and Beyond program to address infant mortality cross our footprint.
Allegheny Health Network
$415,000
To support the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) Clinician Recruitment and Retention program, White Coats for Black Professionals.
Allegheny Health Network
$1,000,000
To support the Innovation & Research Fund in Cardiac Electrophysiology.
Bethany Community Ministries
$8,000
To support Operation High-Rise Vaccination — an effort to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to seniors living in high-rise facilities.
Family Health
Adagio Health (sponsorship)
$25,000
To sponsor the 3rd Annual Better Health Outcomes 2021 Speaker Series as the Presenting Champion Sponsor.
Project Build Them Up, Inc.
$165,000
To support the implementation of Operation Back to Life, a multi-facetted health and wellness program in underserved neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
Service Delivery Systems
A Call to Care (sponsorship)
$50,000
To support a Call to Care's free two-day dental clinic called Mission of Mercy Pittsburgh's (MOM Pittsburgh) provides dental services at no cost to underserved and uninsured children (ages 2-17) and adults residing in western Pennsylvania. The objective is to deliver dental care to over 700 patients with the assistance of 600 volunteers.
Pittsburgh Technical College
$100,000
To support the newly established Student Wellness Center that will serve as a hub for mental and physical wellness for the PTC community.
Community Health
Bethany Community Ministries (BCM)
$70,000
To address the medical and nonmedical gaps that exist within the vulnerable minority population including seniors, immigrants and refugees, homebound individuals and other marginalized groups by providing culturally sensitive health information and COVID-19 vaccinations.
Destiny of Faith, Inc.
$70,000
To support the Faith-Based Health Collaborative's (FBHC) "Get Back in Your Church" health and wellness mini-grants program and educational forum.
INROADS, Inc.
$75,000
To support the implementation of the INROADS intern and leadership development program to
address the underrepresentation of talent in education and career opportunities in corporate settings.
The Advanced Leadership Institute, Inc. (TALI)
$1,000,000
To provide long-term sustainability to TALI as it transitions from Initiative to Institute.
Family Health
Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Inc.
$50,000
To pilot the Healthy Schools, Healthy youth program in select West Virginia schools.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/PG Charities (sponsorship)
$70,000
Presenting sponsor of the 2021 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Goodness section and health care forum.
Community Health
Project Destiny
$165,000
To support Project Destiny's Thrive18 SDOH community initiative.
Family Health
The Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health (sponsorship)
$10,000
To sponsor the two-day Oral Health Summit entitled "2021 PA Oral Health Summit: Navigating a New Era" on November 11-12, 2021.
Service Delivery Systems
Free Clinic Association of Pennsylvania
$100,000
To hire an executive director and campaign manager to strengthen the capacity of the association and free clinics across Pennsylvania.
St. Luke's Hospital – Sacred Heart
$100,000
To expand and improve access to oral health services for underserved families in Center City Allentown through the Sigal Center for Family Medicine.
Chronic Disease
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
$25,000
A planning grant to gather additional data to better understand and serve the needs of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Family Health
Adagio Health
$25,000
To support the 2022 Annual Better Health Outcomes Speaker Series
Bender Leadership Academy
$100,000
To support the Bender Leadership Academy's Mary Brougher Mental Health Initiative (MBMHI) campaign for youth with disabilities.
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit – Center for Safe Schools
$47,000
To provide expert technical assistance to Highmark Foundation staff and school grant recipients receiving a grant in the positive school climate category in the Highmark Foundadtion School Grants and Awards program.
Women for a Healthy Environment
$105,000
To hire a Community Health Worker (CHW) to support the Healthy Early Learning and Healthy Homes programs at Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE).
Service Delivery Systems
Allegheny Health Network
$160,000
To support the development of a collaborative care model to address pediatric feeding disorders.
Allegheny Health Network
$160,000
To build the capacity of AHN Center for Inclusion Health's (CIH) Rethinking Incarceration & Empowering Recovery (RIvER) Clinic.
American Cancer Society
$100,000
To support The Return to Screening Interventions Project, an effort to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates within three Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
Pittsburgh Business Group on Health
$75,000
To sponsor a 3-part educational series in 2022 addressing health inequities in our region.
United Disabilities Services Foundation
$100,000
To pilot a Tele-medicine Wound Care Management program and provide coordination of care for individuals with physical and age-related disabilities in United Disabilities Services' Home and Community Based services division who experience significant wounds as a result of their physical disability.
Family Health
Lancaster General Hospital
$60,000
To create the Care Connections Caring Kitchen program to provide individualized medically prescribed diets to patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank
$25,000
Planning grant to support feasibility of milk bank expansion into West Virginia.
Service Delivery Systems
United Disabilities Services Foundation
$100,000
To pilot a Tele-medicine Wound Care Management program and provide coordination of care for individuals with physical and age-related disabilities in United Disabilities Services' Home and Community Based services division who experience significant wounds as a result of their physical disability.
Total Approved Amount: $185,000
Chronic Disease
South Central Educational Development, Inc
$22,000
To expand access to naloxone education workshops.
Family Health
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit – Center for Safe Schools
$225,000
To support and promote a new pilot program focused on improving school climate in Pennsylvania.
Service Delivery Systems
Children's Hospital Foundation
$250,000
To support The Whole Child Wellness Clinic (WCWC) pilot, a coordinated hub for health care, designed for families and their children with unmet developmental-behavioral health care needs.
Cornerstone Care
$75,000
To support Smile for Life Integrated Oral Health Outreach Program.
Erie County Department of Health
$45,000
To support Growing Smiles of Erie County: An integrated primary and dental care program.
Face2Face Healing
$65,000
To support expansion of Advancement of Case Management: assisting individuals with body disfigurement with the inclusion of a clinical psychologist.
Project Destiny, Inc.
$200,000
To support Project Destiny's Thrive18 initiative.
Jewish Healthcare Foundation – AIDS Free Pittsburgh
$125,000
To support a two-year program aimed to normalize HIV screening in Allegheny County through the implementation of a centralized HIV screening and community outreach campaign and an accompanying mini-grant program.
Total Approved Amount: $985,000
Chronic Disease
Alzheimer's Association
$100,000
To improve dementia quality care and awareness in communities.
Hygeia Facilities Foundation
$16,000
To fund a newly established Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program.
Family Health
Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
$110,000
To continue advancing knowledge and awareness of bullying prevention resources and expand school-based health resources throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Service Delivery Systems
Allegheny Health Network
$110,000
Support the creation of the AHN Center for Inclusion Health's Rethinking Incarceration & Empowering Recovery (RIvER) Clinic.
Bethany College
$25,000
To expand culturally competent mental health and behavioral counseling for the student body.
Bethany Community Ministries
$49,500
To support connecting seniors to medical, physical and psychological services.
Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (Sponsorship)
$65,000
To sponsor a 3-part educational series around health inequities in our region.
Total Approved Amount: $475,500
Provider Strategy Grants
The provider strategy is designed to support safety net providers to build their capacity to provide greater access to care through technology, infrastructure, supplies, staffing, etc.
West Virginia Free Clinics
Beckley Health Right, $15,000
Ebenezer Medical Huntington Outreach Ctr., $15,000
Health Access Inc. (Clarksburg), $15,000
Mercer Charitable Clinic, $15,000
Milan Puskar (Morgantown), $15,000
West Virginia Health Right (Charleston), $15,000
Wheeling Health Right, $15,000
Good Samaritan Free Health Clinic, $15,000
Pennsylvania Free Clinics
9th Street Clinic (McKeesport), $15,000
Birmingham Free Clinic, 15,000
Catholic Charities, $15,000
Free Clinic at Braddock, $15,000
Operation Safety Net, $15,000
Sheep Inc. Health Care Ctr. (Monroeville), $15,000
Western Berks Free Medical Clinic, $15,000
Jean B. Purvis Comm. Health Center, $15,000
Highlands Health (Johnstown), $15,000
Centre Volunteers in Medicine (State College), $15,000
Free Medical Clinic of DuBuois, $15,000
Columbia County Volunteers in Medicine, $15,000
Meadville Area Free Clinic, $15,000
Beacon Clinic for Health & Hope (Harrisburg), $15,000
Mission of Mercy (Harrisburg), $15,000
Corry Area Free Clinic, $15,000
Edward Leahy Jr. Ctr Clinic for the Uninsured, $15,000
Hope Within Ministries, $15,000
Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine, $15,000
Volunteers in Medicine (Wilkes-Barre), $15,000
Katallasso Family Health Center, $15,000
The Health Ministries of Christ Lutheran, $15,000
Pennsylvania & West Virginia FQHC Lookalikes
Metro Community Health Ctr., $34,000
Sharon Community Health Center Inc., $34,000
Hygeia Facilities Foundation Inc. (Whitesville), $34,000
Rural Health Access Corporation (Coalfield), $34,000
Wright Center for Community Health, $34,000
Community Strategy Grants:
The community strategy is designed to support collaborative partnerships that focus on prevention and interventions to meet critical health care needs.
AHN Center for Inclusion Health
$76,000
To support a telehealth for the homeless initiative in partnership Allegheny County Dept. of Human Services.
Philanthropy West Virginia
$19,000
To support small COVID-19 health response grants.
Family Life Center
$25,000
To support COVID-19 programmatic efforts.
Poise Foundation
$25,000
To support emerging critical community needs for African American communities in Allegheny and Beaver counties.
Travelers Aid Society of Pittsburgh
$25,000
To support the Medical Transportation Assistance Fund.
Hosanna House
$35,000
To support a COVID-19 community assistance campaign.
West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness
$25,000
To support COVID-19 health, mental health and benefits navigation for persons experiencing homelessness.
West Virginia Local Health Inc.
$50,000
To address the decline as a result of COVID-19 in routine immunizations in children and older adults throughout WV.
Total Approved Amount: $900,000