AmeriHealth Caritas Foundation Grant

Mission and Focus Areas

The AmeriHealth Caritas Foundation is dedicated to preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which will help drive positive outcomes for children's health and help set a stronger foundation for a lifetime of wellness. In addition to preventing and mitigating ACEs, it promotes protective and compensatory childhood experiences (sometimes referred to as “PACEs”), which can counteract the effects of ACEs.

Grants are made based on three pillars:

• Empowered families - Work to ensure that families have the resources they need to thrive through:
  • Skills development
  • Safe communities
  • Stable housing
  • Connection to vital resources
• Healing behaviors - Work to ensure that families can meet challenges and improve well-being by addressing:
  • Mental health
  • Substance use
  • Physical abuse and violence
  • Emotional abuse
• Access to health care - Work to ensure that families receive equitable, high-quality services, including:
  • Better access to care
  • Culturally-appropriate services
  • Maternal health

Learn more about these pillars and the Foundation's commitment to addressing aces.

To promote these pillars, the Foundation prioritizes nonprofit organizations that work to end ACEs by supporting families and children and equipping them for an emotionally healthy future.

Get more information about the types of projects the foundation funds.

Funding

The Foundation expects to make one-year project-specific grants totaling up to $1.945 million, with awards ranging from $100,000 to $250,000.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• To be eligible, organizations (and/or their fiscal sponsor) must:
  • Be a 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-designated nonprofit organization.
  • Be located in a U.S. state or territory in which AmeriHealth Caritas Medicaid health markets operate:
  • Delaware
  • District of Columbia
  • Louisiana
  • Michigan
  • New Hampshire
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Carolina
  • Have annual revenue under $10 million for the most recently completed fiscal year.
  • Have been operational for at least three years and have a recent IRS Form 990 available.
  • Provide programs and support that:
  • Are comprehensive, customized, asset-based, and community-led
  • Focus on healing behaviors, access to health care, and/or empowering families
  • Reach communities with a high proportion of Medicaid enrollees
  • Have a demonstrated impact
  • Be responsible for the implementation and management of the project.