Grants

Supporting Community-driven Mental Health Solutions
Total funding as of August 2025: $1,159,697

Educating Character Initiative (ECI), Wake Forest University. “Forming Virtue through Community-Engaged Learning: A Proposal for Educating Character at Calvin University.” Total grant - $488,000. Contractual services to Mental Health Together team for the production of a book titled “Community Based Participatory Research: Instilling Virtues in Academia, Fostering Community Driven Solutions, and Transforming Healthcare” - $150,000. Funded July 2025.

City of Grand Rapids, Michigan 2nd Ward. “Strengthen Mental Health Support for the 2nd Ward”. Total grant - $350,000. Contractual services to Calvin University Mental Health Ambassador program - $91,000. Funded June, 2024.

Michigan Health Endowment Fund. “Women Supporting Women in the Maternal Infant Health Program”. $199,999. Funded May, 2023.

Corewell Health – Healthier Communities. “Male Mental Health Ambassadors”. $74,995. Funded December, 2022.

Michigan Public Health Institute. “COVID-19 Health Disparities Implementing Women Supporting Women (WSW) to Improve Access to Mental Health Care”. $344,000. Funded May 2022.

Corewell Health Healthier Communities. “Community Based Participatory Research Model”. $23,760. Funded January 2022.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Investigator Initiated Research Program. “Women Supporting Women Model”. $55,000. Funded July 2021.

Corewell Health – Healthier Communities. “Community Engaged Health Equity Zones Project”. $35,882. Funded December 2020.

Calvin University “Public Health Initiative”. “Women Supporting Women: Supportive/educative Groups for Ethnically Diverse, Urban, Impoverished Women Struggling with Depression and Anxiety”. $7850. Funded June, 2020.

Michigan Health Endowment Fund. “Addressing Stigma: Lay Ambassadors for Mental Health”. $99,999. Funded, May 2020.

Calvin University “Public Health Initiative”. “Women Supporting Women: Supportive/educative Groups for Ethnically Diverse, Urban, Impoverished Women Struggling with Depression and Anxiety”. $5000. Funded June, 2017.

Calvin University “Public Health Initiative”. “Women Supporting Women: Supportive/educative Groups for Ethnically Diverse, Urban, Impoverished Women Struggling with Depression and Anxiety”. $5000. Funded, August, 2016.

Perrigo Company Foundation. "Supportive Educative Groups for Ethnically Diverse Urban Impoverished Women Struggling with Depression and Anxiety". $10,000. Funded June, 2012.

Marian Peterson Nursing Research Fund. “Mental Health in our Partner Neighborhoods”. $3500. Funded March, 2010.

Corewell Health Healthier Communities. “Community Health Worker Program”. $53,694. Funded July 2004.