Foundations seeking opportunities to support innovation in healthcare, leading-edge research, and clinical excellence, will find meaningful partners in the Foundation Relations team at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Foundation Relations builds strong and engaging relationships that focus on connecting with each unique foundation’s mission and vision to ensure your interests are appropriately matched with our initiatives.

Foundation partners at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist have helped to support projects addressing food insecurity, health disparities, needs for specialized services, and many others. The Foundation Relations team will work to connect you with research opportunities, clinical programs, and talented faculty members that will help leverage your organization’s strengths and reach shared goals. Together we will work to transform healthcare in our community and beyond.

Faculty Funding Opportunities:

Foundation Relations collaborates with faculty as they seek funding for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s research, programs, academics, and initiatives. We explore foundation opportunities and offer tools and expertise to help match your programs and projects with private foundation funders.

Core areas of service and expertise include:

  • Guiding faculty throughout the private foundation proposal process.
  • Reviewing proposals for guideline compliance, general copyediting, and alignment with the foundation’s mission.
  • Ensuring that the proposals are appropriately tailored to the reviewing audience.
  • Facilitating on-site visits and meetings between faculty and foundations.

Our faculty partners should contact Foundation Relations directly to explore opportunities for funding. We regularly distribute foundation funding opportunities directly to faculty across Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. View the latest RFPs here.

Rachel Zimmer
Wake Forest University School of Medicine Receives $340,000 Grant from The Duke Endowment

“Rachel Zimmer, an assistant professor of implementation science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and founder of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s Mobile Health Program and Fresh Food Rx Program, was awarded the grant for her project, “Training Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods ‘Community Ambassadors.”

Read more about how the Duke Endowment is partnering with medical institutions and community organizations to make change.
April Miller, MD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine Receives $1.5 Million Grant from Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

“Dr. April Miller, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Dr. Kathy Poehling, a pediatrician at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Brenner Children’s and professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, received the award, which is the largest single grant received by Wake Forest University School of Medicine from the Kate B. Reynolds Trust in the last 20 years.

Read about how the three-year project will create new models of maternal and infant care and address disparities in birth and postpartum outcomes for Black and Latinx communities in Forsyth County.