Deadline: 4 May 2020
The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation (MCHF) is offering grants to assist organizations dealing with COVID-19 through the Coronavirus Emergency Support Grants program.
Priorities
- General Services for Low-Income Individuals and Families
- The overarching objective of the Cabrini Foundation is to improve the health and wellbeing of poor, disadvantaged and underserved New Yorkers. To help achieve this goal, the Foundation is seeking programs that serve low income individuals and families through initiatives such as:
- Improving access to quality healthcare services and wrap around services by supporting integrated systems of care, mobile clinics, and healthcare workforce development.
- Increasing access to healthy, affordable foods by supporting food banks, food pantries, and mobile food markets directly in neighborhoods.
- Developing nutrition programs to encourage healthy eating and improve access to safe, recreational spaces in low-income communities.
- Supporting community centers, such as settlement houses that provide programming for community members.
- The overarching objective of the Cabrini Foundation is to improve the health and wellbeing of poor, disadvantaged and underserved New Yorkers. To help achieve this goal, the Foundation is seeking programs that serve low income individuals and families through initiatives such as:
- Young children (0-3), Pregnant Women and New Moms
- Infants, toddlers, new moms, and pregnant women can face a variety of challenges in New York households lacking appropriate financial and other resources. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population. The Foundation is seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Promoting initiatives that enhance early learning and promote healthy brain development.
- Providing innovative ways to train and educate new and expectant parents about healthy childhood development.
- Supporting case managers to work one-on-one with pregnant women, providing comprehensive prenatal, parenting and childbirth education classes.
- Expand access to high-quality day-care facilities.
- Infants, toddlers, new moms, and pregnant women can face a variety of challenges in New York households lacking appropriate financial and other resources. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population. The Foundation is seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Youth and Young Adults
- Youth and young adults sometimes struggle with transitioning to adulthood. Individuals in this population may have difficulty managing relationships with friends and family members or functioning appropriately in education and employment settings. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving youth and young adults of New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Promoting parental support for vulnerable families, aligning child and parent’s needs.
- Strengthening coordination and access to enhanced education, development, health, and family benefits and programs for vulnerable youth and families.
- Provide early intervention help, such as mentoring and peer counseling for youth at risk, support job skills and education attainment, improving behavioral health, promoting recovery and rehabilitation, and creating opportunities for success.
- Youth and young adults sometimes struggle with transitioning to adulthood. Individuals in this population may have difficulty managing relationships with friends and family members or functioning appropriately in education and employment settings. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving youth and young adults of New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Older Adults
- Aging comes with many challenges. Diminished physical ability, age discrimination and loss of independence are some of the common struggles encountered by this population. These challenges are often exacerbated by a lack of appropriate financial resources. Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population within New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Targeting programs which address social isolation, such as community-based day-programs.
- Expanding ride sharing programs for older adults for doctor appointments and errands.
- Supporting programs for people suffering from age-related dementia and mental illness.
- Targeting programs to provide home health services, alert systems and hearing aids in locations with concentrations of older persons (such as Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities).
- Promoting the development and implementation of elder abuse prevention intervention programs.
- Supporting programs that help older adults and their families with end of life issues and palliative care.
- Aging comes with many challenges. Diminished physical ability, age discrimination and loss of independence are some of the common struggles encountered by this population. These challenges are often exacerbated by a lack of appropriate financial resources. Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population within New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Persons with Special Needs
- Special needs refer to any physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral or other impairments that restrict an individual’s ability to function effectively (or at full capacity) in any aspect of life. Special needs are particularly challenging when present in households with severe financial limitations. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population in New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Providing education and legal help to raise awareness of and provide access to the best care possible and access to benefits.
- Providing services to parents/caretakers to empower the best support system and plan for when special needs children reach adulthood.
- Offering direct services to support individuals with special needs, including mental health, health, dental, and other supportive services.
- Developing supportive housing and communities for those with disabilities and provide onsite support for job training, counseling, and caregivers.
- Special needs refer to any physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral or other impairments that restrict an individual’s ability to function effectively (or at full capacity) in any aspect of life. Special needs are particularly challenging when present in households with severe financial limitations. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population in New York State. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Immigrants and Migrant Workers
- Immigrants and Migrant Workers in New York face all kinds of challenges related to cultural and language barriers as well as poor living conditions. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to helping this population to assimilate more effectively in New York State. They are seeking programs that serve this population by accomplishing the following types of initiatives:
- Building the capacity of health systems to manage diverse communities by developing cultural competency, such as supporting interpreters, community health workers, targeted health services such as mobile health or dental clinics and skills training for healthcare professionals.
- Providing English language education, job training, health education and community integration.
- Providing safe housing and working conditions in communities that have high numbers of seasonal employees by outreach, mobile health and dental services, and/or onsite seasonal clinics.
- Providing trainings and workshops for farm employers on improving working conditions, providing or connecting to health services, and obtaining legal documentation for migrant workers.
- Enhancing access to healthcare and to legal services that navigate healthcare, housing, and immigration status issues.
- Immigrants and Migrant Workers in New York face all kinds of challenges related to cultural and language barriers as well as poor living conditions. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to helping this population to assimilate more effectively in New York State. They are seeking programs that serve this population by accomplishing the following types of initiatives:
- Veterans
- Life after the military can present many challenges to veterans and their family members. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving the brave men and women of New York State who fought for country. For this population, they are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Helping to coordinate benefits to help bring needed care to military families and support a successful transition to civilian life.
- Fostering peer to peer support and counseling.
- Providing confidential, integrated mental health services, including telemedicine or online services.
- Helping veterans access education, employments, and timely legal services.
- Life after the military can present many challenges to veterans and their family members. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving the brave men and women of New York State who fought for country. For this population, they are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
- There are numerous interconnected challenges that formerly incarcerated individuals face upon release that make their journey toward successful community reintegration extremely difficult. Lack of financial resources or a social network can make this process even more challenging. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
- Aligning healthcare resources.
- Assisting with access to safe and adequate housing.
- Supporting College in Prison Programs that operate in New York State Prisons.
- Helping people returning to the community from prison access higher education, vocational training or programs that help with obtaining jobs.
- Training, certification and entrepreneurship programs for people returning to the community from prison, with an emphasis on industries and sectors that offer opportunity for formerly incarcerated individuals.
- There are numerous interconnected challenges that formerly incarcerated individuals face upon release that make their journey toward successful community reintegration extremely difficult. Lack of financial resources or a social network can make this process even more challenging. The Cabrini Foundation is committed to serving this population. They are seeking programs that accomplish the following types of initiatives:
Funding Information
- These emergency grants will generally be awarded for funding levels in the range of $75,000 – $150,000.
- The Cabrini Foundation funds domestic section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service and the State of New York. Specifically, grants may only be made to a domestic public charity as described in Internal Revenue Code section 509(a)(1) or (2) or an exempt operating foundation as described in Internal Revenue Code section 4940(d)(2).
- All grants must adhere to and comply with the ethical principles, tenets, and teachings of the Roman Catholic Faith, including but not limited to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Applicant organizations are not required, however, to be affiliated with the Catholic Church to be eligible for grants.
- Applicant organizations generally should reside in New York State, and primarily serve New York State residents.
- Grants must benefit poor, disadvantaged, or underserved New York State residents.
- Applicants should have an annual budget of $750,000 or more.
- The Cabrini Foundation will generally consider grant proposals of $75,000 or greater.
- Grants must be used exclusively for the specific program, activity or project approved by the Cabrini Foundation, which, in all cases, must be in furtherance of the Cabrini Foundation’s charitable purposes.
- Applicant organizations must demonstrate that they exhibit sound financial management and governance practices and are capable of effectively carrying out the programs, activities or projects proposed to be funded.
- Applicants must demonstrate their capacity to work with the populations to be served by the project.
- The Cabrini Foundation plans to prioritize grant proposals that focus on providing direct services and programs.
The Foundation does not fund
- The Cabrini Foundation will not make grants to individuals.
- The Cabrini Foundation will not make grants for any activities that involve carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation (within the meaning of Section 4945(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code).
- The Cabrini Foundation will not make grants in support of any activities that involve participating in, or intervening in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, influencing the outcome of any specific public election, or carrying on, directly or indirectly, any voter registration drive (within the meaning of Section 4945(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code).
- The Cabrini Foundation will not make grants to support events, conferences, or fundraising activities.
- The Cabrini Foundation does not plan to support capital grant programs, but may choose to do so on a limited, case-by-case basis.
- The Cabrini Foundation will not award grant funds to supplant current government funding but grant funds may be used to augment services funded using government sources.
For more information, visit https://www.cabrinihealth.org/apply