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Grantmaking
We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
Participatory Funds
Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
to impacted communities to direct resources and make funding decisions.
Special Grant Programs
We build public and private partnerships to administer grant dollars toward targeted programs.
Program Related Investments
We provide funds at below-market interest rates that can be particularly useful to start, grow, or sustain a program, or when results cannot be achieved with grant dollars alone.
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Tia Burroughs Clayton, MSS
Learning and Community Impact Consultant
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
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Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
Contact Caitlin about the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, the Annual Innovation Award, and trauma-informed programming.
Joe Pyle, MA
President
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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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SOAR Justice Project
Evaluation Design and Implementation
Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) provides direct civil legal services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia and advocates for the needs of the city’s homeless population.
About
In July 2007, HAP entered into its first contract with the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services to develop an expedited Supplemental Security Income (SSI/SSDI) disability benefits application protocol for chronically homeless Philadelphians modeled after a federal initiative titled SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach Access and Recovery). HAP developed, and continues to administer, Philadelphia’s only SOAR Project through which HAP rapidly secure SSI/SSDI benefits for disabled homeless adults. HAP’s SOAR project is so successful that it is referenced as the best model for SOAR in the country. Through SOAR, HAP helps a variety of vulnerable populations to rapidly access SOAR including chronically homeless adults, youth aging out of foster care and and veterans awaiting VA benefit determinations. Since 2007, HAP has helped over 2,300 individuals to rapidly access SSI/Medical Assistance through this project.
In 2018, with funding from the OAK Foundation, HAP launched the SOAR Justice Project to bring SOAR to Philadelphia’s Specialty Courts, specifically, Mental Health Court, Project Dawn Court, Drug Treatment Court and Veterans Court. HAP establishes SSI benefit eligibility for vulnerable Specialty Court participants suffering from disabling psychiatric conditions, thereby establishing a stream of stable income and medical insurance upon court program completion. The project is designed to curtail the cycle between homelessness and criminal recidivism in which seriously mentally ill individuals, especially those who themselves have been victimized, are often trapped. HAP’s successful representation through SOAR, in conjunction with the social service supports available in Philadelphia’s Specialty Courts, create additional safe housing options and secure continuity of treatment, thereby breaking the cycle of homelessness and criminal recidivism.
The Scattergood Foundation in partnership with The Consultation Center at Yale University School of Medicine have been the third party evaluator for the SOAR Justice Project since 2018.
