Show Exactly What Your Foundation's Funding Changed

A 30-minute session for hospital foundation leaders on linking every grant to a community need, a strategic priority, and a measurable result.

In a 2024 study of 485 community health strategies from 83 nonprofit hospitals, 71% were evaluated on system utilization, like visits and participants, while only 34% were evaluated on social outcomes (Health Care Management Review, July 2024). The researchers called it a missed opportunity to show impact and to guide where limited resources go.

Hospital foundations feel that gap directly. Funding requests, reviewer scores, and outcome reports often live in separate places. When a board member asks which community needs this year's grants addressed, and what changed because of them, the answer takes weeks to assemble.

Without that connection, it's harder to defend funding priorities, harder to show donors and community partners their dollars mattered, and harder to decide what to fund next.

This session draws on Review Integrity, a framework for judging whether any funding, award, or application review process is fair, clear, and defensible. We'll focus on three parts of it:

• Rubric Clarity: are funding decisions scored against written, weighted criteria that reflect your strategic priorities?
• Decision Traceability: can you show why each request was funded and what it was meant to achieve?
• Loop Closure: do post-award results feed back into next cycle's priorities and criteria?

Under IRS Section 501(r)(3), nonprofit hospitals complete a community health needs assessment every three years, and each one must evaluate the impact of actions taken since the last. Foundations that collect the right data from the first application onward are ready when that question comes.

What You'll Learn

• How to build customizable application forms that capture outcomes, populations served, geography, community needs, and project goals
• How to tie every request to a need named in your community health needs assessment, so priorities and funding line up from the start
• How to turn strategic priorities into weighted scoring criteria, so the requests that matter most rise to the top
• How to give reviewers clear scorecards and workflows that keep scoring consistent across committee members
• How to use AI-assisted summaries to move through large application pools faster, with reviewers making every decision
• How to send supplemental forms after the award to collect progress updates and outcome data on a set schedule
• How to keep pre-award goals and post-award results in the same record, so nothing gets lost between cycles
• How to run reports that show funding by need, population, and geography
• How to use historical data to connect past funding to measurable community impact and guide what you fund next
• How to answer board and donor questions about impact in minutes instead of weeks

Who Should Attend

Hospital and health system foundation presidents and executive directors, grants managers, community benefit and community health staff, and anyone who reports foundation impact to a board.

Can't attend live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.

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