Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation


	• Address Obesity and Prevent Major Chronic Disease - Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Asthma & Arthritis - primarily through better nutrition, increased physical activity and tobacco cessation • Offer Primary Care and Related Services for the un/underinsured principally in partnership with the Sadler Health Center • Target System-Wide Behavioral Health Issues especially where mental health issues and substance abuse co-occur (also known as co-occurring disorders) • Enhance Oral Health • Support Allied Health Care Education with a focus on needs based scholarships.


	While reaching a broad range of people in our region, CAHWF’s efforts are mainly focused on those most in need of healthcare due to economic barriers or lack of access. CAHWF's position is that: • Primary prevention is our preferred strategy to have significant, long term impact. • Personal ownership and responsibility should be equitably joined with the provision of services. • Parent/guardian education and involvement should be an important consideration for grants and initiatives that have an impact on children’s health. This will assist parents in their pivotal roles as gatekeepers, mentors, and models of healthy attitudes and behaviors through their own self-care.

The mission of Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation (CAHWF) drives and strategically guides its grantmaking. Decisions made are based on both an applicant's demonstrated ability to efficiently manage the proposed program as well as the effectiveness of the proposal to elevate the status of the community's health.

A philosophy of educated decisions supported by expertise is utilized. A blend of flexibility and fairness is required to encourage openness with applicants and forthright evaluation of grants. A commitment to innovation to solve problems is balanced by the sustainability needs of "best of class" programs with proven effectiveness. Sensitivity to the applicants frames all policy and decision-making.

Measures prescribed by Healthy People 2020. Our own research and our history as successor to the Carlisle Hospital are used to set focus areas as well as to evaluate process and outcomes. (Healthy People 2020 is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.) www.healthypeople.gov


	Capital Building : Enhances the skills of boards, staff or volunteers by training or other organizational development activities. Capital: Offers amounts not to exceed $50,000/agency for program-related equipment with a limit for the Foundation of $500,000/year. Core or Operating Support: Assists with the general purpose of an organization, including personnel and administration. Demonstrations: Supports a specific initiative or new endeavor, not a general purpose. Emergency: Aids during a unique crisis situation. Emerging: Addresses a new issue now having a documented impact relating to the focus areas. Program: Maintains or expands an existing program, not a new one. Technical Assistance: Provides consulting for financial or electronic needs.


	• Endowment or �bricks and mortar� drives • Annual fund drives or loans • Advertising in yearbooks or programs • Lobbying or political causes • Individual scholarships, internships or awards • Retroactive expenses or projects • �Athons� or other similar sponsorships • More than 25% of an agency's budget • Athletic, recreational or alumni activities • �Flow through� grants to affiliates of national organizations • Religious activities • Individual medical bills

The Foundation receives many requests for funding in a year. The programs most likely to be funded are those that best answer the following:

Does the proposal:

• Address one or more of our priority focus areas for funding or, in
the case of “Healthy People” grants, meet an urgent and critical
healthcare need in the CAHWF region?
• Serve a sufficient number of persons in our defined geographical region?
• Support its case with valid and varied data, i.e. a documented need?
• Show thoughtful planning, budgeting and ability to deliver the service?
• Have a cost/person that is reasonable given the expected outcomes?
• Have plans for financial maintenance in future years?
• Demonstrate an understanding of outcome measures and evaluation?
• Avoid duplication of services (unless justified) and include collaboration?
• Offer the capacity to measurably improve one of CAHWF’s priority areas?
• And sometimes, does it show the potential to be “even better if��?

Further information and details on any policy are available from the grants staff. All policies are approved by the CAHWF Board of Trustees with input from the Grants Committee and staff.