What We Fund

Health of the Jewish Community
Health of the Urban Community

Academic Medicine & Bioscience
Health Policy

Health of the Jewish Community

The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation seeks to support efforts to improve the physical and mental health of Mt. Sinai’s founding constituency. The Foundation will collaborate with the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and with other Jewish agencies and organizations on health issues of concern to the Jewish community.

The Foundation will support projects that build organizational capacity in those Jewish organizations that address these needs. Foundation-initiated special projects in this area may also be developed.

Health of the Urban Community

In the tradition of The Mt. Sinai Medical Center, the Foundation is committed to improving the health of Greater Cleveland’s most vulnerable individuals and families. To achieve impact in this area, scale is a significant factor.

The Foundation seeks to support especially those projects focusing on health promotion and disease prevention that have the potential to access large populations through existing community infrastructure. To optimize impact in large populations, partnering with both public and private funding sources may be appropriate and necessary.

Of particular interest are proposals in the areas of health-related early childhood development and health-related aging.

This Foundation will also make a limited number of grants of up to $25,000 for smaller scale projects to improve the health of the community. Foundation-initiated special projects in this area may also be developed.

Academic Medicine & Bioscience

The Foundation seeks to strengthen Cleveland’s prominence as a national leader in medical education and biomedical science, perpetuating Mt. Sinai’s leadership role in these areas. Emerging collaborations among Cleveland’s academic medical centers present opportunities to build organizational capacity and advance progress. The Foundation will work with Cleveland’s academic medical community to accomplish these goals.

Health Policy

Notwithstanding significant support from the private sector and philanthropy, government at all levels remains the single greatest financial contributor to the health of at-risk populations, including children, the elderly, and the poor. Through strategic initiatives in the area of health policy, the Foundation seeks to support projects that maximize the effectiveness of government in meeting its obligations.