Are foundations overlooking mental health?

Health Affairs

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 222-229

  Brousseau, Ruth Tebbets ^a   Langill, Donna ^b   Pechura, Constance M ^c  

^a California Wellness Foundation   (United States)

^b Grantmakers in Health   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

FINANCING, ORGANIZED; FOUNDATIONS; FUND RAISING; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542575667     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.22.5.222     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (Rockville, Md.: DHHS, 1999).
2. G.N. Grob, From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991).
3. H.A. Pincus and T. Fine, "The 'Anatomy' of Research Funding of Mental Illness and Addictive Disorders," Archives of General Psychiatry 49, no. 7 (1992): 573-579.
4. Grob, From Asylum to Community.
5. Some data are publicly available at www. fdncenter.org. This essay includes publicly available data and some commissioned analyses.
6. Grantmakers In Health, A Profile of New Health Foundations: May 2003 (Washington: GIH, 2003).
7. These numbers are based on Foundation Center (FC) annual data on mental health. The definition of mental health used in the FC's grants taxonomy is as follows: "Programs that promote mental health and treatment of mental illness...; addiction and substance abuse treatment services; crisis intervention services....Does not include programs that primarily deal with the prevention of crime...; or shelters and other aftercare services to victims of domestic violence." Foundation Center, "Grants Classification: Mental Health, Crisis Intervention,"fdncenter.org/research/grants_class/taxf.html (7 July 2003).
8. At the time that this essay was prepared, 2000 was the most recent year for which Foundation Center data were available.
9. S. Lawrence, Health Funding Update (New York Foundation Center, 2001).
10. E. Skloot, "Slot Machines, Boat-Building, and the Future of Philanthropy" (Inaugural address to the Waldemar A. Nielsen Issues in Philanthropy Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 5 October 2001).
11. L. Renz and S. Lawrence, Health Policy Grantmaking: A Report on Foundation Trends (New York: Foundation Center, 1998).