Gateway Grants
Through intentional partnerships and collaborations, Gateway Wellness Foundation invests in programs, initiatives, and organizations that promise to improve the health and well-being of residents in Burke, McDowell, Polk, and Rutherford Counties.
What We Fund
We invest our grantmaking dollars in projects that support and empower underserved and marginalized communities and people. Gateway is inviting proposals that focus on access to health care, childhood development, education, housing, and food insecurity. We also have a “Special Projects” category. Please read below for more information on these focus areas and examples of the requests we may fund.
Access to Health Care
- Increasing access to healthcare, including mental and behavioral health care support and services.
- Reducing disparities in access to healthcare.
Childhood Development
- Nurturing the emotional, social, and/or physical development of children, thereby directly impacting their overall development into happy, healthy, productive adults.
- Evidence-based strategies for early childhood programs that support the healthy development of the child and their family.
Education
- Increasing the number of children who are developmentally ready for school
- Increasing the number of high school graduates
- Mentoring and after school programs
- Programs that expand CTE (career and technical education) opportunities
- Other projects that enhance the success rate of students in learning environments
Housing
- Providing education around purchasing and maintaining a home, and removing barriers to home ownership
- Increasing provision of home repair or rehabilitation for people in need
- Increasing access to senior housing
- Increasing access to transitional housing, emergency housing or providing shelter
Food Insecurity
- Measurably decreasing food insecurity and increasing the availability of healthy food.
Special Projects
- Projects may address (but are not limited to) issues around job creation and job readiness, centralized coordination of case management, capacity building, substance use disorder, and hardships that communities are experiencing.
Questions? Please contact Sarah Morse, Director of Programs & Grants: [email protected].
