Dr. Louis and Mrs. Anne Schneider Fellowships for Community Health Care Education

Description: The late Dr. Louis and Mrs. Anne Schneider understood and valued the importance of well-trained health and wellness care providers in our community. As a result, they established these fellowships to assist local not-for-profit agencies build the capacity of their agencies and staffs to provide quality care to the people of Allen County. A preference will be to provide Fellowships that broaden the base of community health knowledge with new skills, services, and health & wellness care abilities of health professionals in the community.

All grants will be made to non-profit agencies, not individuals. Agencies may apply to use the Fellowships to either send staff or volunteers to continuing education opportunities, or to bring an expert to the community to provide specialized health and wellness care training for a group of staff, volunteers, and/or community members. Fellowships typically are capped at $2,000. The Foundation prefers not to fund staff certification trainings and annual conference participation– rather education opportunities on new best practices to help agencies grow and advance their health care and wellness services.

Deadlines: First working day of March, June, September and December.

Eligibility: Applicants should have a demonstrated history of primarily serving poor and powerless populations residing in Allen County. Applicants should be not-for-profit entities classified as 501(c)3 by the Internal Revenue Service.

The Foundation will consider requests for program, program-related equipment, staff continuing education, and technical assistance. The Foundation will commit support on an annual basis only. Additional funding will be contingent upon program performance. Grant applications will not be accepted for building projects, elimination of deficits, support of political activities, individuals, or projects all ready completed.

The St. Joseph Community Health Foundation shares the values of its sponsor and values the dignity of each person. The Foundation also follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. As such, it will not fund anything destructive of human life.

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