Our 2026 Healthy Organizations, Healthy Youth Awards provide responsive funding for organizations serving youth, through targeted investments. To honor our late founder, George A. Sisco, and past chair Barbara Mansfield, we encourage initiatives that demonstrate equal courage and commitment to creating change for young people. Application deadline is 11:59 PM on Wednesday, September 30th.
These awards will fall within two categories:
- Funding for internal infrastructure and capacity-building support. These supports will improve a nonprofit’s ability to operate effectively and build strong programs, leadership, finances and systems aimed at bolstering service quality and capacity. These may include but are not limited to matters of professional development, succession or strategic planning. Examples might include staff training for trauma-informed communications, translation services, accessibility planning.
- One-time projects, purchases, or upgrades to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health services. These supports will provide catalytic one-time investments into levers of change. These may include but are not limited to equipment, adaptive or mobility tools, or mental health curriculum.
Eligibility:
Projects or programs must directly improve health and quality of life outcomes for children, adolescents and families in Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Ulster and Northern Dutchess counties from:
- Low-Income Communities (Please consider the average income of your clients compared to County Median Income)
- Rural or Remote Communities (places with fewer than 5,000 people and/or 2,000 housing units)
- Communities with poor health outcomes (Please use this Place Data to determine if your service area has a higher than 17.5% poor health rate)