ACHI: Resources: Organizations & Funders

Organizations and Funders

Community Organizations

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The Access Project
Supports local leaders and their initiatives by providing customized assistance around policy change and community action research.

Center for the Advancement of Health
Promotes a view of health that recognizes that where we live, how we are educated and what we eat, drink, breathe and do affect health as much as, if not more than, access to health care. The Center's mission is to translate research on this expanded view of health into effective policy and practice.

Center for Health Improvement
An independent, impartial, not-for-profit, prevention-focused health policy center. It is a resource for policy-makers and community residents on effective policy interventions to improve population health.

Center for Health Leadership and Practice
A non-profit leadership training, consultation, and resource center serving domestic and international health leaders and organizations. A Center of the Public Health Institute.

Communities Joined in Action
Communities Joined in Action is one of the first efforts launched by Community Health Leadership Network to revolutionize health care from the ground up.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

Community Initiatives LLC
Helps organizations, corporations and community collaborations shape change and accelerate results. They have extensive experience working toward community health and healthy communities in local towns, cities and regions throughout the U.S.

Community Voices
Thirteen communities across the nation are participating in this five-year Initiative designed to strengthen community support services and to help ensure the survival of safety net providers.

The Community Toolbox
Provides practical guidance for improving community health and development, with over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 community topics.

Health Policy Coach
A menu of policies arranged according to the five broad determinants of health -- healthcare, education, work, safety and the environment.

Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET)
An affiliate of the American Hospital Association, HRET collaborates with health care, government, academic, business, and community organizations across the United States to conduct research and disseminate findings that will shape the future of health care.

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
NACHC is the national trade association serving and representing the interests of America’s community health centers. Also visit NACHC's State and Regional Primary Care Association listing for information about community health centers in your state.

New England Research Institutes
With the establishment of its new Institute for Community Health Studies, NERI is beginning an exciting program of public health research in the inner-city neighborhoods of Boston.

Partnership for Prevention
Emphasizes disease prevention and health promotion in national policy and practice by providing high-quality information to policy makers.

The Praxis Project
The Praxis Project features ‘how to’ info on doing your own budget research and analysis of state budgets, understanding state and local budget processes, developing an alternative budget, media messaging, organizing and more.

Public Health Institute
An independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.

Search Institute
Promotes long-term organizational and cultural change that supports the healthy development of all children and adolescents.

Shaping America's Youth
The latest and most comprehensive information on programs and community efforts across the United States directed at increasing physical activity and improving nutrition in our nation’s youth.

Social and Health Landscape of Urban & Suburban America
This series of reports by the SUNY Downstate Medical Center (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), includes Healthy Cities, Healthy Suburbs (Aug. 2002) and Dynamics of Race, Culture and Health (Feb. 2003).

National Public Health Associations

State Public Health Departments

U.S. Federal Government Health Agencies

Funder Links

Browse the entire list or skip to a specific section using the alphabetical links below. This list contains primarily funding and grants resources with a national focus.

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American Legacy Foundation - The American Legacy Foundation is a national, independent public health foundation located in Washington, D.C. The foundation collaborates with national, state, and local organizations through grant awards, research initiatives, marketing efforts, and training programs in an effort to reduce tobacco use in the United States.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation - The Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S.

The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) - is the only association dedicated exclusively to advancing and promoting the health care development profession.

The California Wellness Foundation - The Foundation's mission is to improve the health of the people of California by providing grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Funding - CDC's Procurement and Grants Office (PGO) is responsible for the awarding and administration of CDC's grants and cooperative agreements.

The CDC Foundation - The CDC Foundation is the nonprofit enterprise that fights threats to health by creating programs with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Chronicle of Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy, published every other week, is the primary news source for charity leaders, fundraisers, grantmakers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise. Users may also search grant listings from the past two years.

The Council of Foundations - The COF works to support foundations by promoting knowledge, growth and action in philanthropy.

Dept. of Health & Human Services - GrantsNet - GrantsNet is an Internet application tool created by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Grants Management (OGM) for finding and exchanging information about HHS and other Federal grant programs.

The Ford Foundation - The Ford Foundation's goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.

Foundation Center - The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations - GEO brings funders together with practitioners, management support organizations, and academics concerned with organizational effectiveness. GEO members have been actively engaged in building a “community of practice” among funders, including supporting and sharing evaluations of their work.

Grantmakers In Health - Helping grantmakers improve the nation's health. This site includes news, information and resources for health philanthropy, including listings of conversion foundations.

The Grantsmanship Center - The Grantsmanship Center was founded in 1972 to offer grantsmanship training and low cost publications to non-profit organizations and government agencies.

Handsnet - Find grant information as well as classes, strategic planning workshops, and management seminars.

The W. K. Kellog Foundation - The Kellog Foundation supports the building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems.

National Institutes of Health Grants and Contracts - Find application kits, grants policy, Guide for Grants and Contracts, award data, research training, and research contracts.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation - The Packard Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the following broad program areas: conservation; population; science; children, families, and communities; arts; and organizational effectiveness and philanthropy.

The Public Health Foundation - The Public Health Foundation is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to achieving healthy communities through research, training, and technical assistance.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - The Foundation's mission is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. It offers many community health-related grant programs.

U.S. Department of Education Grants and Contracts - Find relevant information needed for applying for grants and funding from the Department of Education.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Funding (HUD) -- HUD offers grants, loans, contracts, and other business opportunities to a wide variety of agencies, organizations, and companies.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grants and Contracts - Find information on grant programs administered by the EPA.