VALUES
As an underpinning in the pursuit of the foundation’s mission and long-term vision, the Foundation’s activities will be characterized by the following:
- Transparency in all decisions and actions;
- Ethical behavior to preserve its public trust;
- Accountable actions;
- Compassion for the community, its people and the organizations attempting to help them;
- Responsiveness and sensitivity to the community’s needs;
- Fair, respectful, honest and professional relationships with all who come in contact with the foundation; and
- Passion in the pursuit of philanthropic excellence.
VISION/GUIDING PRINCIPLES
The North Penn Community Health Foundation seeks to:
- Be a catalyst for change;
- Promote lasting value;
- Identify and advocate for low- and moderate-income individuals/families*; and
- Support innovative and collaborative approaches to solutions addressing unmet community needs.
The foundation’s guiding principles are applied by the staff and board when making funding decisions to assess whether evidence about the applicant’s commitment to these principles can be demonstrated through past practice or incorporated into the framework of the proposed grant work plan. In its review of requests for support of direct services or programs, the foundation highly values demonstrated efforts to explore partnerships and to leverage core competencies and resources among community partners that might not otherwise be available, as robust or as sustainable as an individual effort. The foundation remains committed to considering grant requests from nonprofit organizations designed to help them develop/deliver high quality, high impact programs/services that are fiscally sustainable and responsive to community needs.
(*) “Low and Moderate-income refers to individuals/families that are living in poverty or at risk for becoming impoverished. There are numerous definitions of poverty. The foundation accepts the federal poverty line as the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live and defines “moderate-income” as 250% of the federal poverty level adjusted for family size.
MISSION
The North Penn Community Health Foundation identifies, selects and invests in programs and agencies that will improve the health, welfare and quality of life of the community.
CORE COMPETENCIES
The foundation’s core competencies are:
- A strong and contemporary understanding of Montgomery County and regional community needs and knowledge of health and human service providers that strive to address and resolve these needs;
- The application of business skills and acumen to its grantmaking and operational decisions;
- Collaborative relationships with other funders and among its grantees.
