Our Approach to Grantmaking

Centering Communities and Their Solutions

 

We are on a collaborative journey to dismantle persistent health inequities. EHF is now moving to center its work and grantmaking on repairing the historical injustices impacting the health and well-being of people who live in the Inland Northwest. Through the Building Connections Initiative, which will launch in Spring of 2025, we are focusing our resources on a cohort of 20 by-and-for, grassroots nonprofits in our region.

This initiative prioritizes the leaders and community organizations working to address inequities and accelerate racial, social and economic justice in the Inland Northwest. Each of these communities has its own abundant heritage, history and culture, and are the most impacted by historical injustices, persistent inequities and economic disparities exacerbated by lack of access to resources and opportunities.

 

Our Prioritized Communities Include

  • BLACK, INDIGENOUS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR
    (To include but not limited to Sovereign Tribal Nations, Latine, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, and Marshallese)
  • 2SLGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY & THEIR INTERSECTIONALITIES
  • PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
  • LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES
  • RURAL COMMUNITIES

 

EHF’s service area includes seven counties and three Sovereign Tribal Nations in the northeastern corner of Washington. 

 

Empire Health Foundation Service Area Map

Key

Counties
  1. Ferry
  2. Stevens
  3. Pend Oreille
  4. Lincoln
  5. Spokane
  6. Adams
  7. Whitman
Sovereign Nations
  1. Colville Confederated
  2. Spokane
  3. Kalispel

If you have general questions about working with us and EHF programs: EMAIL OUR TEAM