Improving Mental and Behavioral Health in Mountain West Communities Grantmaking Guidelines
The Katz Amsterdam Foundation and Charitable Trust use a racial equity lens to help provide mental behavioral health support in western mountain resort communities. Recognizing that communities are best served when their advocates come from within, Katz Amsterdam strives to support organizations that are community-based, community-driven and community-defined.
Grantmaking Guidelines
Katz Amsterdam strives to support mental behavioral health efforts in western mountain resort communities who are working collaboratively with strategic vision to:
- Address substance misuse prevention, intervention, and treatment
- Advance equitable access to mental behavioral health supports for communities of color
- Collect mental behavioral health data to understand changing needs and inequities
We hope our partners:
- Serve the needs of mountain resort communities in the western United States.
- Are using a strategic vision and plan to close gaps and address opportunities to best support the mental behavioral health needs of their communities.
- Serve the needs of communities of color by building sustainable and transformative change for marginalized populations.
- Have leadership and staff who are committed to uplifting underserved populations.
- Engage with other KAF Network communities to share learnings and resources.
- Utilize the KAF Shared Measurement Framework Data Dashboard as a tool to further the work in their communities.