Funding Partners
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
The mission of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
DSF Charitable Foundation
The DSF Charitable Foundation is the charitable-giving organization of the David Scaife family. The Foundation seeks to promote excellence in three program areas: health, human services, and education. The grant program focuses on southwestern Pennsylvania, primarily Pittsburgh, where the Foundation is based. The Foundation has a particular interest in helping to create or sustain models of excellence that have potential to be replicated elsewhere and may therefore be of more general benefit to the nation.
The Heinz Endowments
Founded more than four decades apart, the Howard Heinz Endowment, established in 1941, and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment, established in 1986, are the product of a deep family commitment to community and the common good that began with H. J. Heinz and continues to this day.
Highmark Foundation
The Highmark Foundation was created in December 2000 to support community health programs and initiatives in the Pennsylvania 49-county region served by Highmark Inc. The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations and hospitals for activities of many types, including demonstrations, pilot projects, and models that have potential to be replicated throughout Highmark’s service area. The Foundation awards grants within four priority areas: chronic disease, communicable disease, family health, and service delivery systems.
Maurice Falk Fund
The Maurice Falk Fund is dedicated to encouraging a tolerant, just and inclusive society. We oppose discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disability. The Fund primarily awards grants for research, education, civic engagement and innovative interventions to prevent discriminatory practices due to personal prejudices, biased private and public policies, unfair resource allocation, deprivation of access, and other exclusionary practices.
The Pittsburgh Foundation
The Pittsburgh Foundation is the 17th largest community foundation in the country. Since 1945, it has worked to improve the quality of life in the Pittsburgh region by evaluating and addressing community issues, promoting charitable giving, and connecting donors to the critical needs of the community.
POISE Foundation
The POISE Foundation was founded in December 1980 to develop and enhance the participation of African-American philanthropists in the economic and social development of the Black community of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
