The Healthy Lives Grant Program

The Healthy Lives Grant Program is sponsored by The New York Community Trust. This program aims to enhance health services for older adults and individuals with disabilities in New York City. It supports projects that improve access to care, reduce health disparities, and empower individuals through skill development.

Health and Behavioral Health - The New York Community Trust Health and Behavioral Health Learn more about how we fund health and behavioral health in New York City. To find out what else we fund, explore our Info for Nonprofits page. Grantee Planned Parenthood of Greater New York provides a range of reproductive and other health services.

Photo by Caroline Praderio To promote an equitable, patient-focused, and cost-effective health and behavioral health care delivery system in four ways. Monitor—through research and advocacy—health care reform implementation to ensure: Maintenance of a strong and viable health and behavioral health care safety net system. Access to comprehensive and coordinated care for those who remain uninsured or under-insured.

Availability of screening, early intervention, and referral for effective treatment of disease. Build the capacity of New York City’s health, behavioral health, and human service sectors to succeed in a reformed health care system by: Developing effective skills training for the professional and paraprofessional health care workforce. Strengthening financial and information technology systems to allow transition to value-based payments.

Reduce health disparities between low- and higher-income neighborhoods through investments in disadvantaged communities that: Improve indoor and outdoor air quality. Provide safe and inviting parks and open space. Promote access to affordable and healthy food.

Engage residents in efforts to encourage physical activity and healthy diets. Foster the independence of people with mental illness and substance use histories by: Expanding innovative programs that offer clinical care as well as practical services, such as housing, employment, and education. Advocating for expansion of participant-led or participant-informed service models that are sustainable and effective.

Preference will be given to projects that offer sector-wide, systemic, and multi-agency solutions. Whenever possible, health and behavioral health grants will be made in partnership with other Trust program areas to encourage cross-sector collaboration and ensure the greatest impact of our dollars. Read the background paper that informed this grantmaking strategy here .

Our program directors host regular information sessions for new applicants. Register today! SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University to bring community groups and academic centers together to increase funding for health research.

Helen Keller International to provide vision screenings, eye exams, and eyeglasses to low-income New Yorkers. to reduce vaping in New York City public schools by educating students about the risks of e-cigarettes. New York School-Based Health Foundation for school-based health centers in downstate New York to help young, newly arrived immigrants cope with trauma and other mental health challenges.

to provide coordinated medical and behavioral health care to newly arrived young migrants. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center to open a state-licensed behavioral health clinic for LGBQT+ New Yorkers. to expand virtual care for people with addiction.

The Coalition for Behavioral Health, Inc. to help behavioral health agencies respond to opportunities offered by the federal certified community behavioral health clinics program and state-led Medicaid changes. CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy to strengthen New York’s capacity to respond to public health emergencies. to support and train public hospital nurses, particularly to provide care for patients in crisis.

God’s Love We Deliver, Inc. to feed cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to help immigrants with cancer get treatment. New York Legal Assistance Group, Inc. for legal services to help people with cancer get treatment.

to develop partnerships with hospitals to acquire and relieve the medical debt of low-income New Yorkers. for financial aid to low-income cancer patients. to provide medical and rehabilitation services to injured, low-income, classical ballet dancers.

Callen-Lorde Community Health Center to stabilize the city’s leading community clinic for people with, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS. to vaccinate newly arrived migrants. to vaccinate newly arrived migrants.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York to increase the efficiency of operations of five recently merged Planned Parenthood affiliates in New York. HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc. to train chaplains from New York City, Suffolk, Nassau, and Westchester counties on new federal guidelines that authorize provision of pastoral care in health care settings.

Healthcare Association of New York State to help health care providers in New York City and Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties improve care for older adults. New York Birth Control Access Project to advocate for increased access to birth control. to help low-income trans-femme New Yorkers under the age of 30 get gender-affirming medical treatments.

to help a federally qualified health center in the Bronx provide coordinated, comprehensive care for the elderly. New York University School of Global Public Health to use artificial intelligence models to study heart disease. Curious about what else we fund?

Are you seeking support for the following? Capital and building campaigns General operating support/routine operational expenses Unfortunately, we don’t make grants in these areas. Where will the activities you plan to request support for take place?

Only select National or International if your work falls outside of New York City, Long Island, or Westchester. Select all relevant impact areas to your nonprofit. Details on your impact areas