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PHILOSOPHY
Dakota Medical Foundation works strategically with nonprofit partners to strengthen their capacity to improve health and access to healthcare, especially for children. We have moved beyond our traditional role from funder of nonprofit organizations to a role of capacity-builder, teaching nonprofits how to become exceptional fundraisers, how to lead and innovate for vastly greater results among the people they serve.
DMF fulfills its vision of a region of the healthiest people able to access exceptional healthcare and lead vibrantly healthy lives through the following funding programs and strategies:
GRANTS
- Small Grants provide up to $5,000 to support health programs ($175,000 available in FY '13).
- $500,000 Breakthrough Idea Challenge grants provide up to $100,000 to support innovative, creative ideas that impact identified focus areas: (1) ideas to see that all people are able to obtain needed healthcare or medicine, particularly kids; (2) great ways to bring and keep well-trained physicians and nurses in rural areas; (3) fitness, nutrition and healthy weight innovations; (4) ways to vastly improve the impact of organizations producing healthy results for people of our region.
INITIATIVES- Children's Mental Health Initiative provides early intervention to prevent social and medical problems caused from mental illness. Free social-emotional mental health screenings of children up to age 8 are provided in Cass and Clay county pediatric clinics, childcares and other sites. Additional outreach strategies include education events for parents and professionals, and training of child care providers in the Nurtured Heart approach to positive behavior reinforcement.
- Cass Clay Healthy People Initiative leads community changes to prevent chronic disease, reduce childhood obesity and help people live longer, healthier lives - making Cass and Clay Counties the healthiest place to live. This partnership of DMF and many community organizations is guiding changes at childcares, schools and elsewhere in the community so these social and physical settings support healthy behavior - making the healthy choice the easy choice. The initiative is seeking to reduce childhood overweight and obesity 20% by 2020.
- Healthy Steps Outreach Initiative improves access to health care by spreading the word statewide to connect uninsured children in North Dakota to free/low cost health insurance coverage. Thousands more kids statewide are getting care through broadened awareness of health insurance options for children.
- Impact Institute Organizational Effectiveness Initiative builds the capacity of nonprofits, businesses and individuals to maximize their community impact. Impact Institute provides professional development in advanced leadership, board governance, fundraising, strategy development, volunteer management, and shared nonprofit services. Improved fundraising success by area nonprofits generates millions more each year for doing good in the region.
- Lend A Hand Initiative helps caring community members raise funds for individuals and families in Cass and Clay counties experiencing a medical crisis. Lend A Hand provides a free fundraising toolkit and event promotions to help volunteers stage successful fundraisers. DMF matching funds and a website for donations provide incentives for community members to give.
- Prescription Assistance Initiative helps area people with low income secure free and low-cost prescriptions from pharmaceutical companies.
- 7 Mindsets promotes healthy choices, removes self-limiting thinking patterns and clears a path for inspired social entrepreneurs by training youth of the region to put passion first, dream big, give to others, take purposeful action toward great results.
If you have questions about Grants/Initiatives, contact Deb Watne: debwatne@dakmed.org or 701-356-2654.
LEVERAGE STRATEGIES- Giving Hearts Day is an annual one-day give-a-thon organized and staged by DMF for participating North Dakota and western Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In 2012, over $1.6 million in donations were made through 10,850 online donations, benefitting 140 DMF nonprofit partners and funds. DMF supports the website www.impactgiveback.org, which 425+ nonprofits use to tell their stories to 60,000 annual site visitors. The website accepts online donations, lists charity volunteer needs, and receives conference and event registrations.
- Venture Youth Alliance is leading collaborative teams of youth organizations, schools, agencies and others to create the conditions for all F-M youth to achieve their full potential. More than 60 area youth groups, schools and others have together prepared and committed to a community blueprint action plan that was released in 2012.
- Achievement Award incentives for select nonprofits implementing fundraising training program components.
- Charitable Giving Funds may be established at DMF for management of donations, tax and legal responsibilities and other oversight. These funds can be donor-advised charitable giving funds, scholarship funds and endowment funds created to support health programs. DMF helps individuals, families, businesses and community groups start funds, successfully build them over time and give to health-related causes aligned with their values.
- Employee/Member Match Grant Program matches employee and DMF member donations.
- Research to advance the state of philanthropy, through studies such as the US Wealth Transfer, a landmark study in conjunction with Boston College philanthropy experts. According to this study, $308.61 billion of North Dakota Wealth will transfer to families, heirs, charities estate taxes, estate fees and lifetime divestiture of other assets from 2007-2061. DMF is preparing nonprofits to capture its share of this wealth transfer.
- New DMF conference center building, opening March 2013, provides high-tech meeting facilities for powerful teams to solve health problems of the region. New building will be a center for world-class fundraising and board training to sharpen leadership skills for exceptional impact.
If you have questions about Leverage Strategies, contact Jennifer Thompson: jenniferthompson@dakmed.org or 701-356-2655.
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