The Foundation makes grants intended to stimulate innovation of new and emerging best practices to improve clinical and community health outcomes. Grantees in our priority communities illustrate our collective commitment to providing resources that improve clinical and community health outcomes. Through this work we have grown to understand the importance of community-led response to improving community health outcomes.
We are thrilled to officially announce the winners of the first-ever Quest for Healthy Communities Champions award! Through the Quest Diagnostics Foundation, this new initiative recognizes nonprofit organizations that are making a significant impact on health and well-being in their local communities.
The inaugural group of winners represents a remarkable geographic diversity, representing each region of Quest across the nation and addressing a wide variety of community health needs.
We are proud to share that 15 outstanding organizations were selected for our 2026 cohort. Each winner will receive a $5,000 grant to support their vital work.
The inaugural Quest for Healthy Communities Champions by region are
Victoria's Victory Foundation (Stratham, NH) www.victoriasvictory.org
Pauline Auberlene Foundation (McKeesport, PA) www.auberle.org
Mosaic Health Center (Clarkston, GA) www.mosaichealthcenter.com
Feeding America Tampa Bay (Tampa, FL) www.feedingtampabay.org
Luke's House (New Orleans, LA) www.lukeshouseclinic.org
Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network (Tulsa, OK) www.tulsayouthworks.org
Center for Transforming Lives (Fort Worth, TX) www.transforminglives.org
TrueCare - North County Health Project (San Marcos, CA) www.truecare.org
CARE Chest of Sierra Nevada (Reno and Las Vegas, NV) www.carechest.org
Latin American Society of Chagas (Richmond, VA) www.lasocha.org
Special Olympics Pennsylvania (Norristown, PA) www.specialolmpicspa.org
Friends of Royal Oak Township (Southfield, MI) www.forot.org
Eastbrook Academy (Milwaukee, WI) www.eastbrookacademy.org
Family Promise of Gallatin (Bozeman, MT) www.familypromisegv.org
Remote Area Medical (National Impact) www.ramusa.org
One of our newest community collaborations is in Chicago's West Side—among the communities hardest hit by food insecurity and associated health outcomes. Efforts here are laser focused on building community-based organizations’ capacity to achieve sustainable access to healthy and nutritious foods for local residents.
Grantee: West Side United
Time frame: 2024 - present
Area of impact: Chronic cardiometabolic conditions, food/nutritional security
Improving the community's health is a team effort for grantees in Paterson, New Jersey. Together, these organizations are changing the way medical students are trained, linking moms to critical prenatal and postpartum care with doulas, and increasing awareness of resources to combat diabetes and other chronic conditions through community health workers. They are also leveraging the value of no-cost testing to enable early detection, education, and intervention for the community.
Grantees: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Health Coalition of Passaic County, St. Joseph’s Health Foundation
Time frame: 2024 – present
Areas of Impact: Workforce development, maternal/child health, chronic cardiometabolic conditions
Improving health and access to healthcare is top of mind for grantees in Baltimore, where the Foundation awarded funding to coalitions and community-based organizations to help break down barriers and engage residents across this community.
Grantees: Baltimore CONNECT, Y in Druid Hill, Chase Brexton, Experience Camps, Green Bronx Machine, and Black Girls Health Foundation
Time frame: 2022 - present
Areas of impact: Healthcare access, chronic and cardiometabolic conditions, nutritional security, mental health
Past and current grantees have focused efforts on improving the health and well-being of residents of Houston's Fifth Ward. Collectively, these organizations worked to close gaps in healthcare access through care coordination, no-cost testing and screening, and health education for residents.
Grantee: Bread of Life, March of Dimes, National Minority Quality Forum
Time frame: 2022 - Present
Area of impact: Chronic conditions, food security, healthcare access, maternal child health
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