Our Vision
The vision of the Healthcare Initiative Foundation (HIF) is a community where all Montgomery County residents have access to high-quality, comprehensive health, wellness, and social services delivered in a culturally responsive, equitable manner.
Our Mission
To help achieve that vision, HIF supports innovative solutions in the delivery of health, wellness, and social services to help address social determinants of health, and to improve life expectancy.
Our Values: Innovation, Integrated, Solutions-Oriented
We believe that creativity generates solutions. We support both traditional and innovative solutions to health and wellness challenges – concepts to test, best practices to implement, efficiencies to execute, equipment to employ, and successes to replicate.
We believe that innovative solutions flourish and are sustained in strong nonprofits. Strong nonprofits need solid leadership and the organizational capacity to plan, implement, and assess their programs. We consider grants to build organizational capacity for the county’s health and wellness nonprofits.
We believe that strong nonprofits exercise responsible stewardship. Responsible stewards aim for sustainability by raising and managing sufficient funds, operating cost effectively, and leveraging integrated resources and relationships.
We believe that responsible stewards are accountable. Accountability is demonstrated through leadership integrity and competence, responsiveness to consumers, transparency, and systematic efforts to track meaningful results.
We believe that the Healthcare Initiative Foundation and our grantee partners are accountable to those who reside in Montgomery County, Maryland for improving health and wellness in our community.
RECENT POSTS
FY22 HIF Grantee Training Registration
To register for the FY22 HIF Grantee Training, use the zoom link below. Zoom registration link...
Many Hands Make Light Work
Building Equitable Vaccine Capacity During the pandemic the adage of 'many hands make light work'...
Transforming the Grantee – Funder Relationship
Philanthropy can be so much more than the dollars distributed, and when funders invest with the...
HIF Invests in Vaccination Clinics
Healthcare Initiative Foundation (HIF) is enthusiastic to award $369,564 from its COVID-19 Vaccine...
DC Diaper Bank Awarded Grant
Greater DC Diaper Bank Receives Grant to Provide 60,000 diapers to Montgomery County Families...
Identity Receives Emerging Needs Investment
HIF invests in Community-based Mental Health Initiative to allow for program expansion and...
One More Step on Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Journey
Over the summer, the Healthcare Initiative Foundation (HIF) collaborated with CommonHealth ACTION...
Food Provider Grantees Announced
Montgomery County awarded $1,126,100 in grants to twenty-eight nonprofits to build additional...
HIF’s FY20 Small Grants Announced
The Healthcare Initiative Foundation Awards $60,000 to impact #7500 Montgomery County residents as...
Health Equity Report Released
Metropolitan Council of Governments on June 10th released their Health Equity: How Opportunities...