Press Release: The Foundation for a Healthy High Point Announces Spring 2024 Grant Awards
High Point, NC — The Foundation for a Healthy High Point, a private foundation that collaboratively engages the Greater High Point community to transform upstream social influences that impact health and well-being, today announced its Spring 2024 grant awards totaling $549,752. The local efforts will address advocacy, behavioral health, capacity building, homelessness, and research and evaluation.
“The strength of our community lies in how well we work together and collaborate across sectors around a common vision for a healthier future. These grants represent our commitment to breaking down silos and fostering partnerships that drive meaningful changes.”
Funding will support a variety of initiatives, including:
- Funding for pilot programs and positions for increased access to resources for people experiencing homelessness.
- General operating support for organizations that are addressing social determinants of health in the community.
- Impact evaluations of two perinatal and early childhood intervention programs
- Implementation of an evidence-based parent café to support healthy parenting and stress reduction to families
- Collaboration between two youth-focused organizations to develop leadership skills, increase service learning and civic engagement, and promote cross-cultural understanding.
The approved Spring 2024 grant recipients are:
Advocacy
- NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad ($130,392): Funding supports a collaboration between NCCJ and D-UP to bring NCCJ’s youth-focused programs to the middle and high school students participating in D-UP’s afterschool and summer programs. These programs support leadership development, promote cross-cultural understanding and competency, and build lifelong advocacy skills in youth. Funding will support staff time, program/meeting supplies, transportation, meals, and fees for students to attend the Anytown week-long residential program.
Behavioral Health
- Alcohol and Drug Services of Guilford, Inc. ($50,000): Funding supports the implementation of the Be Strong Families Parent Café model in High Point. The Be Strong Families’ Parent Café is an evidence-based model that provides families with the opportunity to create physically and emotionally safe spaces where parents and caregivers can talk about the challenges and successes of parenting and raising a family. This effort will be the second site in North Carolina, and the first in Guilford County.
Capacity Building
- Community Collaboration for Children (C3) ($100,000): Provides capacity building support to transition from a purely volunteer run organization to a more professional staffing model. C3 provides comprehensive and collaborative wrap-around support for children affected by crisis and focuses on breaking cycles of intergenerational violence and poverty. Funding will allow C3 to hire an additional staff person to increase services and standard of care for the children/families served.
- Guilford Nonprofit Consortium ($70,000): Funding provides general operating support to strengthen and increase the capacity of nonprofit organizations serving High Point. The Consortium offers a variety of capacity-building activities, including training and leadership development opportunities. The Consortium is a strategic partner for the Foundation and provides administrative support for the Nonprofit Internship Program.
Homelessness
- Partners Ending Homelessness ($188,000): Provides funding to establish and pilot two programs designed to address the gaps in service for people experiencing homelessness, including a healthcare services liaison and a landlord engagement liaison. These positions will provide support to three distinct populations – unhoused people, medical providers, and landlords – with the goal of increasing awareness of and access to available resources.
Research & Evaluation
- Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, Inc. ($11,360): Funding supports an impact evaluation of the perinatal and early childhood intervention programs, Health Steps and Community Navigation. CHS currently offers both programs in seven medical provider sites in High Point and are part of the Ready for School, Ready for Life “Routes to Ready” programs. Data and findings from the evaluation will provide learning opportunities for CHS and Ready, Ready (along with other stakeholders) as well as actionable guidance for improving the program going forward.
Last year, the Foundation funded 29 projects for $1,779,081 in new grant awards. Since its inception, the Foundation has approved nearly $17 million to support the Greater High Point community.
The Foundation for a Healthy High Point was established in 2013. Its mission is to collaboratively engage the Greater High Point community to transform upstream social influences that impact health and well-being. For more information about the Foundation for a Healthy High Point, visit www.healthyhighpoint.org.