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Community Support Grants Program

Providing impactful funding to nonprofit organizations


Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation proudly supports those making a positive difference in our community.

Our community support grants program provides seed funding and expands the reach of existing projects that improve health care for our region. Grant applications are due by Aug. 1, 2025.

Projects focused on these topics are encouraged to apply for a community support grant:

  • Healthy food access and food insecurity
  • Physical activity
  • Diabetes
  • Infant and maternal health
  • Youth and school health
  • Violence prevention
  • Behavioral and mental health
  • Economic wellness
  • Medical education, research, and outcomes
  • Capital or infrastructure (community building in underserved communities)
  • Patient needs (medical bills, transportation for treatment or pharmacy)

Organizations pursuing a community support grant should email Carol Klipsch at [email protected].

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Making a difference

Our community support grants have benefited the following projects and organizations:

  • Rx Outreach: Support helps enhance equitable health outcomes through patient advocacy, community partnerships, and affordable medications.
  • Gateway to Hope: Support helps engage in community outreach, assist patients through treatment, and educate the community about breast health while removing barriers to care.
  • Giving is a Family Tradition (GiFT): Support helps families who are preparing to take their infant home after a prolonged NICU stay.
  • Circle of Concern: Support helps provide wholesome food and other services to more than 1,200 St. Louis County households each year.
  • Annie’s Hope: Support helps provide comprehensive services for children, teens, and their families who are grieving a death.
  • Cancer Support Community:Support helps uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by removing barriers to care.
  • BJC Home Care: Support helps provide compassionate care for patients of all ages who need comprehensive services in their homes, including home health, infusion, home medical equipment, therapy, palliative home care, and hospice.

Organizations seeking a community support grant should email Carol Klipsch at [email protected].

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We invite you to join the Missouri Baptist Medical Center community and help us make a difference.

Deborah Kersting Foundation Director Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation

Phone 314-996-5054
Fax 314-996-4516
Email [email protected] 
Address 3015 North Ballas Road St. Louis, MO 63131


2025 Foundation Board
Ann Abad, President
Subash Alias
Andrew Arnold
Stuart Block
Christopher Dennis
Cory Elliot
John M. Ferris
Cardina Johnson, Development Chair
Dr. Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, Secretary
Roy Kramer
Rod McCann
Joe Moro
Daniel Pook
Kurtis B. Reeg, Chairman
Joe Reinberg 
Renita Rhodes
Lesley Shekelton
Jill Shewmake
Lisa Walden, Co-Chair, Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair
Gretchen Werremeyer
Ted Wight