AmerisourceBergen Foundation launches Opioid Resource Grant Program
AmerisourceBergen’s charitable foundation is expanding its efforts to curb opioid abuse with a new grant program. The AmerisourceBergen Foundation’s Opioid Resource Grant Program is aimed at supporting and advancing ideas from innovative nonprofit, grant-funded organizations looking to address the opioid epidemic in new ways, the organization said, noting that priority will be given to proposals that address safe opioid disposal and prevention education.
“The AmerisourceBergen Foundation is deeply committed to collaborating with all stakeholders to find ways to combat opioid abuse, while also identifying and devoting resources to creating new action-oriented solutions through which we can affect positive change,” said Gina Clark, president of the AmerisourceBergen Foundation. “With the creation of our foundation’s grant program — led by a team universally recognized as experts in treating opioid abuse — we will be better equipped to support and partner with like-minded organizations that share our desire to stop opioid abuse, now and in the long-term.”
To oversee the Opioid Resource Grant Program grantmaking process, the foundation said it created an External Advisory Committee whose members include key stakeholders and thought leaders. The EAC members include Moyer Foundation CEO Mary FitzGerald, Seabrook chief medical officer Joseph Ranieri, Public Health Management Corporation president and CEO Richard Cohen and former Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire.
Grant recipients will be required to offer the foundation an update every six months and submit a report one year after receiving the grant, outlining its impact. Organizations can access information about the grant program through the AmerisourceBergen Foundation website.
“The AmerisourceBergen Foundation is deeply committed to collaborating with all stakeholders to find ways to combat opioid abuse, while also identifying and devoting resources to creating new action-oriented solutions through which we can affect positive change,” said Gina Clark, president of the AmerisourceBergen Foundation. “With the creation of our foundation’s grant program — led by a team universally recognized as experts in treating opioid abuse — we will be better equipped to support and partner with like-minded organizations that share our desire to stop opioid abuse, now and in the long-term.”
To oversee the Opioid Resource Grant Program grantmaking process, the foundation said it created an External Advisory Committee whose members include key stakeholders and thought leaders. The EAC members include Moyer Foundation CEO Mary FitzGerald, Seabrook chief medical officer Joseph Ranieri, Public Health Management Corporation president and CEO Richard Cohen and former Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire.
Grant recipients will be required to offer the foundation an update every six months and submit a report one year after receiving the grant, outlining its impact. Organizations can access information about the grant program through the AmerisourceBergen Foundation website.