Cambia Health Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Cambia Health Foundation supports projects that aim to improve healthcare equity, access and delivery with a strong focus on the Northwest.
IP TAKE: Cambia’s recent grantmaking has focused on the development of high-quality palliative care programs and policy and on expanding “whole person” care to underserved and marginalized communities in meaningful and sustainable ways. More than half of the foundation’s grants go to well-established organizations’ serving communities of the Northwest U.S. The foundation has also run scholarship and fellowship programs that support the projects of individual healthcare and mental healthcare professionals in the foundation’s areas of interest. Grantmaking opportunities change yearly; grantseekers are advised to sign up for updates at the foundation’s contact page.
PROFILE: The Cambia Health Foundation is the philanthropic entity of Cambia Health Solutions, a nonprofit healthcare company involved in insurance and medical technology. The foundation was established in 2007 and is based in Portland, Oregon. In keeping with its parent company’s objectives, this funder invests in “solutions that reduce disparities, eliminate systemic barriers and result in better health care experiences and outcomes for everyone.” Its current grantmaking initiatives are Sojourns, which supports the development of quality palliative care, and Healthy People Healthy Communities, which promotes “person-focused, economically sustainable and accessible health care system for everyone.”
Grants for Public Health and Access
Cambia’s makes grants for public health through both of its grantmaking programs. The Sojourns program, which focuses on palliative care, recently completed an organizational grantmaking cycle, that supported has made organizational grants for pilot programs, evaluations and expansions of evidence-based palliative care systems. Grantees included the Huntsman Cancer Foundation, which used funding to evaluate its home-based cancer care model, and the Hospice and Palliative Nurse Association, which received a grant to develop its HPNA Nurse Leadership Development Program. The foundation is currently making Sojourn grants through a second sub-initiative, the Scholar Leadership Program, which offers healthcare professionals two-year grants of $180,000 to ($80,000 per year over two years) “carry out an innovative and impactful project in the field of palliative care and execute a leadership development plan designed to support the individual's growth as a national leader in the field.” Physicians, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists and others are eligible to apply.
The foundation’s Healthy People Healthy Communities program works broadly to support innovation in healthcare equity, access and delivery. Recent funding has focused on marginalized communities, family care, data systems and financial sustainability. Grantees have included Byrd Barr Place, which received funding for its collaborative work to improve the health of African Americans in the state of Washington, and Oregon’s Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, which received funding for its diabetes prevention and control program.
Grants for Mental Health
Cambria’s Sojourns and Healthy People Healthy Communities funding programs also support mental and behavioral health initiatives. The Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program is open to social workers, psychologists and clergy who work in the area of palliative care and develop projects to develop programs or policy that effects improvement in palliative care. The Healthy People Healthy Communities program, in addition to funding traditional health projects, also supports interventions and programs concerning emotional, social, spiritual and behavioral aspects of individual and community health. Mental health grantees of this initiative include the International Rescue Committee, which received funding for its work on “building resiliency through addressing trauma” with refugees in Utah, and Seattle’s Childhaven, which runs art programs that help children overcome trauma and hardship.
Important Grant Details:
The Cambia Health Foundation made about $8.5 million in grants in a recent year. The foundation’s grants mostly ranged from $25,000 to $3 million, with an average grant size of about $100,000. This funder tends to work with well-established healthcare organizations, institutes and universities, and more than half of all funding remains in the Northwest U.S. For additional information about past grantees, see the foundation’s Sojourns and Healthy People Healthy Communities pages.
Cambia is currently accepting applications only for its Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program, which supports individual health and mental health professionals working on large-scale projects in palliative care. Application guidelines are available at the program’s page. For all other grantmaking programs, the foundation recommends that grantseekers sign up for foundation communications via the form on its contact page.
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