It’s not enough to talk the talk…
We work to share our commitment to our community partners every day through finding and creating funding opportunities, but what about community needs that are more out-of-the-box?
In 2023, the BHT board allocated funds for community events to elevate our community support and live out our mission and values. Better Health Together is committed to sponsoring events and community engagement activities that promote community wellness and elevate community voices.
Our Values:
1. Invest in organizations that align with our Mission & Vision.
This means we prioritize:
organizations that are by and for impacted communities*.
organizations currently partnered with BHT.
organizations who support community-based equity education (beyond general fundraising), and promote community wellness, including sports & physical health (not just medical care 😊)
activities that align around equity in practice
organizations with smaller budgets who struggle to find funding opportunities
2. Limit to one sponsorship receipt per organization each year. A single request may include the costs of sponsoring multiple events and activities.
3. Award Sponsorship Grant amounts up to $5k.
4. Require that organizations must be a nonprofit with 501 (c)(3) designation.
If you have any questions, please reach out using email to reese@betterhealthtogether.org.
If you are interested in sponsorship for your event, please fill out the form below and our team will be in touch.
*BHT uses the term impacted communities to refer broadly to all groups that have been impacted by systems of oppression, such as Black, Indigenous, People of Color, 2SLGBTQA+, persons with a disability, legal-system impacted, low-income, persons experiencing housing instability, undocumented community members, refugee/immigrant people, rural community members, and more groups that face inequity.
Recognizing how our intersecting identities connect, it is important to call out that while white people may experience some of these forms of oppression, this experience is not the same as racism and cannot be racialized for them. A white person experiencing discrimination because of their disability does not have to consider how their race might have influenced their treatment (although if they are doing their anti-racist work, they should). In contrast, a black person with a disability in this example does not get the privilege of separating their experience of racism and the experience of ableism.
2024 Awardees
Spokane Pride
Rosalie Murrey Memorial Foundation
Spokane Parks Foundation
Nuestras Raices
The Lands Council
Martin Luther King Center
The Way to Justice
Refugee & Immigrant Connections Spokane
kʷu cnxiʔ
NW Unity
Mission Community Outreach Center
Spokane Tribal Network
Yoyot Sp'q'n'i
Healthy Ferry County Coalition (HFCC)
If You Could Save Just One
Feast World Kitchen
A Woman's Worth
Merry Glen
Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane
Latinos en Spokane
League of Education Voters Foundation (LEVF)
Sweet Grass Healing Arts
Spokane Stealth Lacrosse Club
Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation
FailSafe for Life
Inland Northwest Coalition for the Liberation of Palestine
Providence Northeast Washington Hunger Coalition
Operation Healthy Family
Girls on the Run of Spokane County
Maji Rising
Vanessa Behan
Flett Middle School - Spokane Public Schools
Transitions
Thrive International
Spectrum Center Spokane
Manzanita House
Shades of Motherhood Foundation
Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane
MiA - Mujeres in Action
Inchelium Language & Culture Association
Spokane Eastside Reunion Association (SERA)
Spokane Youth for Christ
Special Olympics Washington - Northeast Area
Volunteers of America Eastern WA
Reimagine Medical Lake
Compassionate Addiction Treatment (CAT)
River City Youth Ops
Ronald McDonald House of Inland Northwest
Creole Resources
American Indian Community Center (AICC)
Northeast Youth and Family Services (NEYFS)
Spectrum Singers
Greatest Matriarchs Society
Pacific Islander Community Association of Washington
The International Rescue Committee in Spokane