Deadline for Submissions is Feb. 28
ROME, Ga., Jan. 30, 2025 – Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation's 2025 Community Impact Grant cycle opens January 31. The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2025 grant cycle is Feb. 28.
Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation was established in 2021 as a result of the strategic combination of Floyd and Atrium Health. The Foundation currently has assets valued at more than $200 million. Annual investment earnings on the assets are used to support Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center and Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center, which in turn, award grants to area agencies to address needs related to health care in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama.
Along with the two hospitals, the Foundation works with the Hospital Authority of Floyd County and the Cedartown-Polk County Hospital Authority to address factors that impact health, such as food, housing and transportation needs, and to increase health access.
“There are so many organizations doing significant, often unsung, work that positively impacts the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors," said Dan Bevels, president of Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation. “We are in the unique position to be able to aid those efforts and welcome the opportunity to do so."
Non-profit entities, public charities and educational institutions with tax-exempt status serving Floyd, Polk, and Chattooga counties in Georgia and Cherokee County, Alabama are eligible to apply for grant funds. Governmental agencies and religious and civic organizations also will be considered if the grant is to be used strictly for charitable purposes. An organization may submit only one proposal per grant cycle.
In 2024, Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center and Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center which was used to support 33 community agencies as part of their inaugural Community Impact Grant cycle. To date the Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation, through the two hospitals, has invested nearly $6 million in the community.
Grants will be announced May 30, 2025, to applicants whose projects address long-standing challenges, focusing on resolving the root causes of issues rather than immediate needs. The Foundation sets annual funding targets for community investments to identify potential projects that specifically address:
Mental health, behavioral health or substance abuse, including challenges specifically affecting children and youth
Access to care and mobility
Educational opportunities with an emphasis on health and wellness
Hunger relief
Housing
To initiate an application and to access a complete list of requirements for applicants, please visit floyd.org/floydpolkfoundation . Questions about the grant cycle, grant process, applications or qualifications should be addressed to Donna Martin, foundation grants and program manager, by email to donna.martin@atriumhealth.org or by phone at 706-509-3287.
About Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation
Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit funding partner established in 2021 from assets realized from the strategic combination of the Floyd health care system and Atrium Health. The mission of the foundation is to serve as a trusted regional resource partner by investing through its members in community organizations to drive transformational change in health and well-being for all. The primary focus of the foundation is to assist its members in addressing disparities of care in Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon and Polk counties in Georgia and in Cherokee County Alabama.
About Atrium Health Floyd
The Atrium Health Floyd family of health care services is a leading medical provider and economic force in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd is part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Floyd strategically combined with Harbin Clinic in 2024 and employs more than 5,200 teammates who provide care in over 40 medical specialties at four facilities: Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center – a 361-bed full-service, acute care hospital and regional referral center in Rome, Georgia; Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center in Cedartown, Georgia; and Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center in Centre, Alabama; and Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Behavioral Health, also in Rome. Together, Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic provide primary care, specialty care and urgent care throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd also operates a stand-alone emergency department in Chattooga County, the first such facility to be built from the ground-up in Georgia.