The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness is pleased to announce that it will invest $540,000 in 18 organizations that promote mental health and emotional wellbeing among immigrant communities in Greater Philadelphia. These organizations represent the sixth cohort of Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness grantees.
Grantees include:
- ACLAMO
- African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA)
- African Family Health Organization
- Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
- CAIR-Philadelphia
- Ethiopian Community Association of Greater Philadelphia
- Juntos
- Justice at Work
- Karen Community Association of Philadelphia
- Korean Culture Community Foundation
- La Puerta Abierta
- Nationalities Service Center
- New Sanctuary Movement
- Project Libertad
- Puentes de Salud
- SEAMAAC
- VietLead
- The Welcoming Center
Each organization will receive an unrestricted grant of $30,000 to support flexible, responsive programming that prioritizes: creating opportunities with immigrant communities to encourage care, positive coping strategies, and collective healing; building spaces that cultivating meaningful connections among community members; fostering a sense of dignity and self-agency; and centering cultural practices of participants.
In addition to grant dollars, grantees also received stipends to participate in a Community of Practice, where they will have the opportunity to build relationships, share their work, and learn from one another.
The grantees were selected through a participatory grantmaking process, designed to alter traditional philanthropic giving by elevating voices of individuals who are not typically at the decision-making table. A community-based Granting Group reviewed the applications and allocated grant dollars from a pooled fund. Granting Group members were nominated by the Advisory Board, whose member organizations include ACANA, AFAHO, HIAS PA, La Puerta Abierta, Nationalities Service Center, Puentes de Salud, SEAMAAC, and The Welcoming Center.
Since its inception, the Community Fund has invested more than $1.5million in immigrant communities in Greater Philadelphia to promote mental health and emotional wellbeing.
The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness is supported by the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, Scattergood Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, and the Paul D. Schurgot Foundation. The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness is facilitated and administered by the Scattergood Foundation.
For more information, please contact Caitlin O’Brien, Director of Learning and Community Impact, at cobrien@scattergoodfoundation.org.
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The Scattergood Foundation believes major disruption is needed to build a stronger, more effective, compassionate, and inclusive health care system – one that improves well-being and quality of life as much as it treats illness and disease. At the Foundation, we THINK, DO, and SUPPORT in order to establish a new paradigm for behavioral health, which values the unique spark and basic dignity in every human.