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About Us

Improving the health and well-being of all Montanans.

The Montana Healthcare Foundation makes strategic investments to improve the health and well-being of all Montanans. We contribute to a measurably healthier state by supporting access to quality and affordable health services, conducting evidence-driven research and analysis, and addressing the upstream influences on health and illness.

We provide funding and leadership to tackle Montana’s most important health problems through community engagement and building enduring partnerships across the state. Like many foundations, we make grants, but our approach goes beyond traditional grantmaking. Through direct and grant programs, we bring creativity, discipline, and strategic expertise to the job of improving Montanans’ health.

What We Do

Direct Programs

Grant Programs

Leadership

Our dedicated, expert staff help identify innovative solutions to critical health challenges.

Capacity
Building

We catalyze new partnerships to help organizations use limited resources more effectively.

Convening

We help bring communities and leaders together to create new solutions to persistent health problems.

Technical
Assistance

We provide technical assistance to help organizations transform their services or create new ones.

Research

We search for proven programs and use our capital to bring those solutions to Montana.

Grant
Initiatives

We bring proven programs to tackle Montana’s most serious health challenges.

Responsive
Grants

We support Montana-based innovation to improve health across the state.

Our Values

Our values guide how we operate as an organization and how we interact with others.

Integrity

We are honest and principled in our stewardship of the Montana Healthcare Foundation trust and interactions with our stakeholders.

Engagement

We ground our strategy and programming in community engagement and emphasize enduring partnerships with organizations across Montana.

Empathy

We elevate the priorities of at-risk populations because we understand that social and economic circumstances can create barriers to health.

Knowledge

We rely on our professional expertise and community-based data to make productive, strategic investments that improve health.

Innovation

We catalyze health improvement by bringing innovative ideas to fruition and encouraging our grantees and partners to do the same.

Impact

We pursue programming that has a measurable impact on health and health determinants, and we constantly work to improve the effectiveness of our programs.

Transparency

We are open, consistent, and clear about how we make decisions and manage the Montana Healthcare Foundation.