Grantees were selected with help from three separate groups of community members.
Joe Pyle, president of the Scattergood Foundation, speaks in front of press, guests, and organizers for the announcement of the first round of grantees for the Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund in 2023. The foundation announced the fund's second round of grantees Wednesday.
Funding for the Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund comes from a $200 million payout, dispensed over the next 18 years, from a $26 billionBeyond the grants outlined Wednesday, the city has not yet announced plans for the remaining money it will receive this year from the 2022 settlement. Among the grantees funded on Wednesday were:, a religious nonprofit, will receive $100,000 to fund, in part, overdose reversals and wound care for people with addiction.
Other grants will fund programs as diverse as grief counseling for children who have lost loved ones to overdoses, arts programs for young people, and legal services for people experiencing homelessness. In departure from last year’s grant process, Philadelphia officials said earlier this year that, unlike in the previous round of grants, opioid settlement funds could no longer pay for the distribution of sterile syringes.
Foizen said she was particularly pleased to see more grant applications from North Philadelphia this year. Just three organizations applied for grants in 2023; for the 2024 round, 21 organizations sent in grant applications. The neighborhood has seen rising rates of overdose deaths in recent years and is second only to Kensington in overdose deaths, city officials say.
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