Baptist Community Ministries recently awarded over $1.6M to local partners that are working directly with those affected by COVID-19. BCM’s Board of Trustees and senior management will continue to monitor the situation and communicate with grantees and philanthropic partners as we navigate the COVID-19 crises together. In the meantime, BCM will continue to fund ALL of its existing grant commitments.

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Strategic Grants

Active Grants (click below to learn about our current grantees)

Health Education Public Safety

Health Grants Awarded

504HealthNet

To provide content area support and technical assistance for regional safety net providers

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Congregational Wellness and Chaplaincy Services

To enhance the network of pastoral support providers and increase understanding of self-care opportunities among area pastors

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Daughters of Charity

To increase behavioral health care capacity to support over 4,000 additional patient visits per year and to support the development of a sustainable integrated model of care between the FQHC provider and school partners

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Ensuring Access to Quality Care

Study conducted in partnership with AARP, LSU and Louisiana Public Health Institute to examine to impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Louisiana residents

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Federally Qualified Health Centers

A network of safety-net healthcare providers committed to facilitating easy access to quality healthcare services

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Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies

To support quality primary and behavioral care coordination for youth and adolescents throughout the Greater New Orleans region

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Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority

To expand the JPHSA primary and behavioral team capacity through effective and high quality care coordination

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Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority

To create a pilot and initial assessment of JPHSA's care coordination model (JPHSA is Jefferson Parish's primary provider of services for residents with moderate/severe mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities)

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Louisiana Primary Care Association

To support the Greater New Orleans safety net provider community with key information and analysis regarding healthcare policy changes at the state and national levels

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Louisiana Primary Care Association

To advocate (on state and national levels) for regional safety net provider organizations/secures existing supports for low/no income patients/ensures sustainability for safety net provider organizations that provide care for over 150k patients annually

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Louisiana Public Health Institute

To provide evidence-based capacity-building support to area safety net providers regarding effective and optimal primary care and behavioral health integration strategies

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Reshaping a Greater New Orleans

Features several BCM strategies (most recent edition focused on post-Katrina healthcare changes)

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Education Grants Awarded

Early Development Instrument

Uses teacher surveys and community census data to more deeply explore kindergarten readiness

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Greater New Orleans Funders Network

A coalition of local, regional and national grantmakers committed to equity and economic opportunity in the Greater New Orleans region

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New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board

To learn more about the community by taking stock of what already exists on the youth services/programs landscape in Orleans Parish, while ensuring youth have a strong role in identifying the resources available to them. This is a CYPB pre-planning strategy
*Cross-Zone of Education and Public Safety

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New Orleans Youth Alliance

Launching an independent youth development intermediary to support youth development organizations in the region

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New Schools for New Orleans

To coordinate across New Orleans schools, stakeholders, and community initiatives to improve the quality of programs and systems serving youth with special needs

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NOLA-Youth Program Quality Initiative

Designed to improve the instructional quality of youth development programs in New Orleans

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One App Enrollment System

Worked to ensure that families were aware of the common enrollment system for public schools in New Orleans

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Personalized Learning

Awards grants to organizations who are seeking to improve technology and learning in their classrooms

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Public Funding for Out-of-School Time in New Orleans

A BCM-funded report that explores the public funding and policy opportunities for out-of-school time providers in New Orleans

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YouthShift

A citywide collective impact effort to increase alignment and coordination of nonprofit organizations and agencies that work with an on behalf of New Orleans children and youth

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Public Safety Grants Awarded

Medicaid Enrollment Programs in Jails

A 2018 report commissioned by BCM outlining opportunities to provide care for those currently under court ordered confinement.

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EMPLOY Collaborative

A group of over 30 organizations seeking to improve reconnection to education and workforce pathways for Opportunity Youth

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Equity Index

Seeks to provide transparency and accountability to help inform decision-making about education in New Orleans

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Greater New Orleans Funders Network

A coalition of local, regional and national grantmakers committed to equity and economic opportunity in the Greater New Orleans region

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Greater New Orleans Funders Network

To support the work of the Criminal Justice Action Table in developing co-funding/aligned funding opportunities

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Justice Reinvestment Factsheet

To develop a factsheet to educate the general public about the status of Justice Reinvestment (JRI) as the 2017 legislative reforms take effect

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Louisiana Public Health Institute

To support the behavioral health and social services sectors via a fellowship to support the development of financially sustainable Behavioral Health service providers

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New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board

To learn more about the community by taking stock of what already exists on the youth services/programs landscape in Orleans Parish, while ensuring youth have a strong role in identifying the resources available to them. This is a CYPB pre-planning strategy
*Cross-Zone of Education and Public Safety

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New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation

Orleans Parish Information Sharing & Integrated Systems Initiative (OPISIS)
$150,000

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New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation

To support public accountability and reform efforts by conducting one survey on community attitutdes regarding the New Orleans Police Department

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Opportunity Youth Funding Map

A BCM-funded report that explores the public funding and policy opportunities for Opportunity Youth in New Orleans

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Safety and Justice Challenge Community Advisory Group

To hold city, parish, and state officials accountable for the commitments they have made to the Safety and Justice Challenge in order to reduce the jail population

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Social Solutions Global

To support Efforts to Outcomes (ETO), a software platform used by members of the Opportunity Youth Data Sharing Collaborative (OYDSC) for EMPLOY to improve case management, service delivery, and outcomes for Opportunity Youth

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United Way of Southeast Louisiana

To strengthen shared learning, best practices, and case collaboration among reentry providers and stakeholders in Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes via the support of the Louisiana Prison Reentry Initiative (LaPri)

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Trafigura Work and Learn Center

Provides employment opportunities for Opportunity Youth in New Orleans

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Vera Institute of Justice

To support efforts to systematically collect and analyze jail inmate population data to inform the work of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council as it moves toward setting jail utilization policy for Orleans Parish.

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Voice of the Ex-Offender

To support community oversight over the proposed jail expansion

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Strategic Grants and investments go to support projects and organizations related to BCM strategic priorities. Current areas of investment include: Health Service Delivery Integration, Improving the Quality of Programs and Criminal Justice System Alignment. Major investments over the past five years are outlined in the color bar above.

Health Service Delivery Integration

BCM’s Health Zone is advancing the health service delivery integration (HSDI) strategy to improve primary care and behavioral health coordination across Greater New Orleans. Through partnerships with direct service and systems-level partners, BCM seeks to improve health outcomes and service delivery for those with behavioral health needs. Additionally, BCM’s investments aim to support a trauma-informed community that yields better outcomes; limits additional harm; and enhances quality of life.

Improving the Quality of Programs

BCM’s Education Zone is advancing two key strategies to advance learning opportunities across Greater New Orleans. First, through our key partner, the New Orleans Youth Alliance, BCM supports the New Orleans Youth Program Quality Initiative (NOLA-YPQI) and broad collaboration among youth development organizations. Together, these groups use evidence-based practices to improve the quality of programs that serve young people in our community, collaboratively solve common issues organizations face, and innovate new ways of elevating youth voice and leadership. Second, BCM is exploring opportunities to support access to quality early learning. We hope to share more about our early learning strategy later in 2019.

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