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Ben Massell Dental Clinic
For 100 years, we have been changing people’s lives – thousands of them, every year.
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Odyssey Counselling Center
The mission of Odyssey Family Counseling Center is to strive to provide high quality, professional counseling in the areas of mental health, substance abuse, trauma, anger management and the prevention of addictive behaviors, to all socio-economic groups.
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Genesis Shelter
To provide a supportive environment that enables homeless newborns and their families to achieve positive life outcomes for this generation and those to come.
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Genesis serves families with a baby under six months of age, with priority given to families with newborns.
The Georgia Health Foundation helps nonprofits address health issues
of local importance and/or leverage opportunities to focus on regional or national health issues.
Welcome to the Georgia Health Foundation
General Information
The Georgia Health Foundation was created in 1985 through the conversion of the Georgia Medical Plan, Georgia’s first nonprofit health maintenance organization, to an independent, private foundation.
Grantmaking Priorities
The Foundation is dedicated to improving the health of Georgians and awards grants within a broad range of health-related areas to organizations operating exclusively for charitable, scientific, and/or educational purposes. Applicants are encouraged to address health issues of local importance and/or opportunities to address regional or national health issues. Collaboration, cooperation, and joint ventures among organizations are encouraged. While the Foundation should not be considered a source of continuing support, it seeks to encourage programs that have a high potential of sustaining impact. With rare exceptions, the Foundation does not support capital campaigns. Grants are awarded only to organizations within the State of Georgia and which are eligible as determined by the Internal Revenue Service.
The seven-member board of directors meets regularly throughout the year and considers proposals received and recommendations offered by the Proposal Evaluation Committee. Grants are most often awarded in September and are paid to the recipients in December at the Foundation’s Annual Awards Luncheon. Occasionally the Board will consider awarding grants earlier in the year, but only when the timing and urgency of the project require early review and funding. The Awards Luncheon provides a time for the year’s grant recipients to come together to exchange ideas, learn from one another and identify opportunities to collaborate.
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