Health & Wellness
Fostering Children’s Capacity for Health
A child’s ability to be healthy is overwhelmingly influenced by the social determinants of health, defined as the conditions in environments where children are born, live, learn, create, and play. The Pincus Family Foundation supports organizations that strengthen community assets (positive determinants) and reduce barriers to health (negative determinants), including access to nutritious food, neighborhood safety, educational success, and engagement with arts and recreation.
As a PFF grantee partner, we are afforded the opportunity to situate ourselves as experts in the larger question of supporting norm change through and in research, education, policy, clinical care, and more – with the ultimate charge of fostering the development of healthy and safe children.
STRATEGY
Our funding is guided by core values of collaboration, empowerment, transformation, and amplification. We prioritize organizations with strong local connections that can achieve community-wide impact. We support programs that both improve environmental conditions and build children’s agency and resilience. Through convening partnerships between healthcare organizations and community-based groups, we amplify impact beyond what individual organizations could achieve alone.
While direct health outcome measurement requires long-term partnerships, we fund programs with clear pathways to measurable improvements in the social conditions that shape child, family, and community health.
GOAL
Advance children’s health and well-being by supporting nonprofits that strengthen social conditions, empower youth, and build healthier environments in marginalized communities.
TARGET CONSTITUENCY
Nonprofits whose work strengthens social determinants of health for children in marginalized communities.
