We use every tool available to advance our mission. Alongside our grants, we align our investments with our values, contribute staff expertise and leadership to strategic initiatives and cross-sector partnerships, and use our convening power to strengthen the field and build lasting relationships.
We also steward the legacy of Friends Hospital, the nation's first private psychiatric hospital and a pioneering site of the moral treatment movement. We are committed to ensuring that the historic campus continues to serve the community surrounding the Friends Campus, honoring its history while creating opportunities for community benefit today and into the future.
By bringing together our financial, human, institutional, and historic assets, we help strengthen communities and create impact that extends far beyond our grants.
The Friends campus at 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard is one of the Scattergood Foundation’s most important assets and central to its vision for leveraging its resources for greater community impact. The Foundation envisions a vibrant, community-centered campus that improves the health and wellbeing of all Philadelphians, particularly historically underserved communities in lower Northeast Philadelphia. Building on a legacy of mental health care dating back to 1813, the campus has the potential to bring together behavioral and…
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The Scattergood Foundation’s endowment is one of its most important assets and a powerful tool for expanding our impact. We see mission-aligned investing as an extension of our grantmaking—allowing us to use our financial resources to advance meaningful change and strengthen community wellbeing. We aspire to align 100% of our financial assets with our mission, values, and philanthropic goals. By creating a clear framework for transparency and shared responsibility among our staff, board, and advisors,…
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Color Me Back launched in 2019 through a partnership among Mural Arts Philadelphia, Mental Health Partnerships, The Barra Foundation, The Sheller Family Foundation, and the Scattergood Foundation to create same-day, low-barrier paid work opportunities for people experiencing economic instability in Philadelphia. Initially focused in Center City and Kensington, the program combines meaningful work, social connection, and access to supportive services. As a strategic partner, the Scattergood Foundation helped guide the program’s early development through a…
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The Pottstown Trauma Informed Community Connection (PTICC) was a community-wide initiative that brought together schools, healthcare providers, behavioral health organizations, community leaders, and families to build a more trauma-informed and resilient Pottstown. Guided by the understanding that childhood adversity affects lifelong health and well-being, PTICC worked to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and promote trauma-informed practices throughout the community. PTICC grew out of the Pottstown Early Action for Kindergarten Readiness (PEAK) initiative. In 2014, as PEAK leaders…
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Research has consistently shown that experiencing trauma during childhood can have lifelong effects. Adversities such as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence in the home, and having a parent who was incarcerated have been linked to increased risks of depression, unstable employment, substance use disorders, and chronic health conditions, including heart disease. In 2012, a small group of pediatricians came together to explore ways to mitigate the impact of childhood trauma. Those early convenings, led by the…
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