St. Margaret Foundation

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St. Margaret Foundation’s Funding Priorities and Principles

St. Margaret Foundation Fiscal Year 2011 Grant Making

Requesting a Grant: Requests for grants are due March 1st with awards made after July 1st.

Community Organizations Submitting a Grant Request: St. Margaret Foundation utilizes the Common Grant Application format for proposals.

Download the Common Grant Application

Hospital Applicants Submitting a Grant Request: Hospital applicants must submit a UPMC St. Margaret Grant Request cover Sheet along with a Common Grant Application. Hospital Applicants applying for grants need not include the following from the Common Grant Application because we already have the information on file:

A Common Grant Application Cover Sheet
Any information under Section "D number 1" - Organizational Information. (Be sure to include number 2 - Purpose of grant).
Any of the Attachments under Section "E" with the exception of the "Program Budget.

Criteria for St. Margaret Foundation Focus and Grant Requests:

The mission of St. Margaret Foundation is to be a valued source of support for UPMC St. Margaret and the health and wellness of the communities it serves.

1.) Fundable programs will focus on filling in the gaps in the areas of:

1) Patient access

2) Patient education and

3) Patient experience

2.) Funded programs will be congruous with fundraising initiatives. The funded programs will also be something for which St. Margaret Foundation can fundraise thus communicating a unified message.

3.) Programs will be clearly outside of what the general public may feel a profitable health system would provide.

4.) Programs will be in line with the hospital’s strategic initiatives.

5.) Programs should bring awareness and brand equity to the Foundation whereby grant seekers present strategies to heighten this to gain further donor support.

6.) Programs should produce measurable outcomes.

7.) Programs will be rated on each of the above initiatives on a scale of 1 to 5.

8.) Grant periods will be for one year and not over multiple years.

Download the UPMC St. Margaret Grant Request Cover Sheet.

Download the Common Grant Application

Mail one complete copy of the proposal, unbound and suitable for copying to:

Nicole M. Dimanov

Manager of Data and Office Systems

St. Margaret Foundation

815 Freeport Road

Pittsburgh, PA 15215

The Foundation does not support the following:

organizations without IRS tax-exempt status
organizations outside of the communities that UPMC St. Margaret reaches
programs without a healthcare component
endowment programs
operating deficits or retirement of debt
political campaigns
special events

When reporting on a grant, please use this Common Report Format as a guide. The reports to be submitted by FY2011 grant recipients are due by April 1.