$55,000+ Awarded to Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Interventions in 2023 and 2024!
Pima County's 2021 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) identified mental/behavioral health and substance use disorders as health priorities in our community. In response, Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation (TOMF) chose those priority areas as the target for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 grants programs. Over $55,000 was awarded to 8 different organizations with innovative programs in the target areas. Winning organizations are listed below:
Arivaca Human Resource
Beads of Courage
Tucson Postpartum Depression Coalition
The Haven
Touchstone Health Services
Easterseals Blake Foundation
YWCA Southern Arizona
Culture of Peace Alliance/Tucson Youth and Peace
Thriving Nonprofit Technology Awards
In 2020 and 2021, Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation (TOMF) acknowledged the adaptability and resilience of Southern Arizona's thriving nonprofits and awarded a total of $40,000 in Thriving Nonprofit Technology (TNT) Grants to support the continued achievement of unique and meaningful public health outcomes in our community. Grant funds awarded were used to purchase items necessary for virtual trainings, meetings, events, fundraising, computer system upgrades, health-related programming, etc.
Trustee Awards
The Foundation provided charitable grants on a monthly basis through the Trustee Awards from 2013 through 2019. This program provided grants to help smaller community projects with urgent needs that could be resolved with a modest amount of funding.
Since its incorporation, the Foundation has provided over $1 million to hundreds of Southern Arizona non-profit organizations.
Founders' Scholarships
Scholarships are awarded annually to osteopathic medical students at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in Las Cruces, NM, A.T. Still University-SOMA in Mesa, AZ and Midwestern University-AZCOM in Glendale, AZ.The awards are given in the names of the Tucson General Hospital Founders whose forward thinking allowed them to overcome such dilemmas as exclusion from staff privileges at existing hospitals and the inability to rent office space from allopathic physicians. In 1949, their solution was to incorporate a 15-bed osteopathic hospital. Over the next 30 years, it grew into a 277-bed facility and highly respected educational hub for osteopathic interns and residents. Through the Founders' Scholarships, it is TOMF's intent to provide some relief from the financial burdens of medical school as well as encourage this same innovation and leadership from the next generation of DOs as they face new challenges in modern medicine.