Costco Wholesale’s primary charitable efforts specifically focus on programs supporting children, education, and health and human services in the communities where we do business. Throughout the year we receive a large number of requests from nonprofit organizations striving to make a positive impact, and we are thankful to be able to provide support to a variety of organizations and causes. While we would like to respond favorably to all requests, understandably, the needs are far greater than our allocated resources and we are unable to accommodate them all.

In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is pleased to offer a planning grant that includes training and funding for agencies and organizations working with systems-impacted families and/or families impacted by substance use. These families interact with formal systems such as child protective services, the justice system, social services, or programs addressing basic needs insecurities (e.g., WIC, SNAP, housing assistance) for support, intervention, or oversight.

The philanthropic wing of Centene Corporation, the Centene Foundation aims to transform the health of communities through three distinct drivers of health: healthcare access, social services, and education.

Projects or programs must align with one or more of Centene Corporation’s focus areas of:
- Education,
- Healthcare Access (including Social Determinants of Health), and
- Social Services.

The foundation supports local partnerships and initiatives focused on inclusion, the whole person, and community development. The foundation recognizes that transforming the health of communities requires more than one-time contributions and seeks partnerships that can grow over time and position communities to thrive.

Community Vitality supports projects that are rooted in relationship to land, healing, cultural revitalization and knowledge sharing. The weaving of intergenerational kinships, honoring elder and youth relationships, and nurturing cultural transmission strategies is supported through this work. The following pathways amplify projects culturally grounded practices and social justice: 1) Traditional Foodways bring vitality, food sovereignty, food security, and support for subsistence food strategies to our communities. 2) Community-Based Healing rooted in traditional health and healing, community wellness and ceremonial practices. 3) Language Revitalization and Creative Expression strengthens cultural identity and intergenerational learning and kinship; tribal language revitalization, communications, and fluency, creativity and arts development, and builds community cohesion. 4) Traditional Wisdom and Cultural Knowledge Sharing practices which restore Indigenous identities, knowledge systems and practices, cultural mapping and curriculum development, and culturally rooted leadership development.

THRIVING WOMEN recognizes Indigenous women and girls’ inherent strength and capacity for healing, leadership, and regenerating positive futures. Thriving Women centers and uplifts Indigenous women’s leadership and strategies to reclaim traditional matrilineal lifeways that have sustained and built nations since time immemorial. It recognizes the targeting of Indigenous women and girls as a manifestation of ongoing colonization and the link between extractive industries and violence against Mother Earth. The program supports grassroots, Indigenous women-led and serving initiatives to prevent and remedy gender oppression including strategies addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Relatives; uplifts matrilineal centered traditional health and wellness practices (birthkeeping, healing, arts, etc.), bolsters coming-of-age ceremonies; advances multi-generational leadership development, and revives women’s healing and well-being through food systems and land-based practices. Thriving Women is implemented through the following pathways for gender and social justice: 1) Birthkeeping, Motherhood, and Kinship; 2) Reclaiming a World Without Violence Against Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits; 3) Women and Girls’ Cultural Vitality and Leadership

SCDD is seeking a grantee to actively engage with Indigenous PwI/DD and their families, Tribal health organizations, and other collaborative partners in California to provide plain language materials, outreach, and training opportunities to connect Native Americans with critical health-related supports, services and information about developmental and medical/dental/mental health determinants, risks, and needs.

On October 9, 2024, Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, launched Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health. The registration period is now open.

The Lalor Foundation postdoctoral fellowship program supports promising new researchers in establishing scientific and teaching careers. The program’s mission is to support these researchers early in their work so that they can become independently funded in the field of mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.

The Foundation is providing seed money to implement imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, from infancy to 7 years, on a national scale. Areas of support include parenting education, early childhood welfare, and early childhood education and play. Submit Letter of Inquiry online.

The Foundation’s Grant Program makes contributions to US charitable organizations whose principal purposes are in the areas of health, medical advancements, or education.

This funding supports multidisciplinary and innovative intervention research to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States, with a particular focus on racial and ethnic minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and underserved rural populations. The grant is part of the NIH's Implementing a Maternal health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, which aims to understand and address the factors affecting pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. IMPROVE emphasizes reducing preventable maternal deaths and improving health outcomes before, during, and after delivery, with a special focus on health disparities among disproportionately affected populations.