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Grantmaking
Priorities
Since its inception in May of 2001, the Brandywine Health
Foundation has distributed over $3.6 million in grants to
non-profits, as well as nursing scholarships to individuals,
to initiate and support programs meeting the foundation’s
mission: to improve the health and well being of the residents
of central and western Chester County.
In February of 2007,
the foundation approved a Strategic Plan outlining grantmaking
priorities for the next five years:
1. The Brandywine Health
Foundation’s principal and
overriding goal is to support and strengthen the system
of safety net health providers for low income residents
in central and western Chester County, with special emphasis
on reducing racial and ethnic healthcare disparities. To
that end, proposals for funding in the following areas
will receive priority consideration:
- General operating
support, special program support, occasional capital needs,
or technical assistance for the existing network of safety
net providers serving the uninsured and underinsured with
medical, dental, and mental health services.
- Programs
to enhance the effectiveness of the Brandywine Health & Housing
Center, enabling it to better serve the community (scheduled
to open January/February, 2008.)
- Efforts to provide information
and outreach to the uninsured to promote their enrollment
in AdultBasic, CHIP, PACE, and pharmaceutical companies’ prescription
assistance programs.
- Programs to positively impact the delivery
of mental health services for low income residents, particularly
adolescents and teens.
- Advocacy efforts with elected and
appointed government officials for systems changes designed
to increase insurance coverage through existing or new
government funded programs.
- Programs that include interpretation services for the
Latino population.
2. The foundation may provide limited funding to meet the
following areas of need:
- Programs to address the problem
of obesity, particularly among youth.
- Programs to encourage
health literacy.
- Programs to help children in the local
community who have few opportunities to succeed in life,
emphasizing community-wide, systemic solutions and initiatives.
3. The Brandywine Health Foundation has limited funding
available to reduce the need for emergency medical services,
and/or to strengthen existing services benefiting the residents
of central and western Chester County.
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