Kent County Community Awards
The Community Commitment Fund was established as a result of a 1997 Consent Decree formed during the merger of Blodgett Memorial and Butterworth Health. The Community Commitment Fund provides targeted contributions to improve the health of medically underserved and economically disadvantaged populations in Kent County through health programs, services, and grant making dollars.
Funding
Corewell Health’s community commitment grant-making funding is used to fund three benefit processes: a rapid response fund to address emerging needs in the community, a data-driven multi-year grant award, and the neighborhood-level participatory research “Our Neighborhood, Our Health.”
| Name of Fund | Eligibility | Award Amount | Application Period | Award Decisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TBA | Up to $20,000 | TBA | Rolling | |
Organizations whose work improves mental health or access to care | $25,000-$150,000 over 2 years | Aug. 1 to Aug. 25, 2025 | Oct. 31, 2025 | |
Projects and organizations serving Roosevelt Park in Grand Rapids | $100,000 divided between grantees – decisions made by the Roosevelt Park Wellness Collective | Closed | Rolling |
| Name of Fund | Eligibility | Award Amount | Application Period | Award Decisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TBA | Up to $20,000 | TBA | Rolling | |
Organizations whose work improves mental health or access to care | $25,000-$150,000 over 2 years | Aug. 1 to Aug. 25, 2025 | Oct. 31, 2025 | |
Projects and organizations serving Roosevelt Park in Grand Rapids | $100,000 divided between grantees – decisions made by the Roosevelt Park Wellness Collective | Closed | Rolling |
Rapid Response Fund
To address timely and urgent needs for Kent County non-profit organizations requiring immediate action, this grant fund is available for organizations responding to unanticipated needs, events, opportunities, or challenges. Examples may include:
- Unexpected key staffing changes
- Preparing or responding to an emergency response
- A new opportunity to meet a need aligned with our Community Health Needs Assessment
- Crisis management
- Other
The Rapid Response Fund is currently in a pilot phase and will be opened to the community in 2026.
CHNA Improvement Partnerships
We are looking to support impactful projects that advance equity and improve the health and well-being of residents in Kent County, Michigan. We seek to award eligible organizations whose work directly or indirectly addresses and improves outcomes in at least one of the following strategic priority areas:
- Access to care: Ability to get to, receive, and use all aspects of care that are medically necessary for a healthy life to their full extent, without experiencing barriers due to language, mobility, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and other factors.
- Mental health: Mental health care and emotional wellbeing support(s).
You may access the Kent County Community Health Needs Assessment for additional information, data, and examples of needs in these priority areas. Priority will be given to organizations or projects whose focus is on communities most impacted by the organization’s area of work and strategic priority area.
Our Neighborhood Our Health mini-grants
Our Neighborhood, Our Health (ONOH) is an approach to improving the health of a neighborhood where residents are asked to identify pressing health concerns and their solutions. It is a scalable, collaborative, place-based model based on community-based participatory research principles. We focus on developing a framework for neighborhood health that relies on neighborhood-driven solutions to neighborhood-identified health needs with broad institutional support in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Once neighbors prioritize health needs, the Community Advisory Board supports disbursing mini-grants to neighborhood organizations who meet those needs. Today, the ONOH model is implemented in the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood of Grand Rapids, supported by the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan as the Backbone Organization and a Community Advisory Board, The Roosevelt Park Wellness Collective.