Deaconess has two upcoming opportunities to dive in deeper with our work through sessions with interactive audience participation: 1) If you haven’t had the chance yet, here is another opportunity to learn about our new strategic framework. learn more about our new refined strategic direction. We will share the results of our multilayered community-driven approach...

Greetings Deaconess Community, The onset of the pandemic and a change in executive leadership called us to reexamine our multi-year strategic plan and reevaluate the ways the Foundation is advancing justice as an institutional advocate. Over the course of 18 months, we sought the wisdom of residents in our communities – those in which we...

Seeding the Future Grants These grants are for general operating funds to advance an organization’s efforts to promote health justice and social justice through coalition and base-building, grassroots advocacy, community organizing and/or public policy development/change while aiming to improve conditions for community-level well-being. Seeding the Future Grants are designed to be responsive to systems-change partners’...

Deaconess Community, In the recent past, we have seen a disturbing trend. Legislators at federal and state levels are exerting their influence across the country and in our region to create roadblocks to accessibility, impeding the civil liberties of minoritized people. Instead of using the positions that have been granted to them by the people...