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PHILOSOPHY
The Foundation is firmly committed to achieving superior performance in improving health through the following grantmaking strategies:
- Selecting and investing in organizations and people
that are committed to superior performance and demonstrate the ability to measurably improve health and access to healthcare services in an efficient manner. - Attracting others to invest time, talent, and treasure to leverage our ability to improve health and access to healthcare services.
- Improving the performance of the Foundation, our grant partners, and others to increase organizational effectiveness and capacity to better achieve our vision.
- Advancing knowledge by sharing lessons learned through successes and failures in order to improve the work of the Foundation and other organizations.
HEALTH FOCUS AREAS
Dakota Medical Foundation's board of directors, through their strategic planning process, has chosen to focus the majority of the Foundation's resources in the following health areas, with a special emphasis on children:
Access to Healthcare To improve health by supporting efforts to measurably improve access to high quality medical care.
Chronic Disease Prevention To promote healthy eating and active living to decrease the incidence of obesity and chronic disease.
GRANT PROGRAMS
The Foundation seeks to achieve its mission through a grant program consisting of initiative and responsive grants.

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