Meet New Profit’s 2025 Mental Health Equity Catalyze Cohort
New Profit is excited to welcome eight new organizations to our 2025 Mental Health Equity Catalyze Cohort. This cohort will provide funding to organizations advancing equity in mental and behavioral health to build a healthier America.
Launched in 2022, New Profit’s Health Equity Catalyze Cohorts have invested in 32 innovative organizations, all working to build and support healthy communities, which are the basis for a thriving American democracy, workforce, and education system.
Organizations in the incoming cohort are focused on building healthier communities and advancing systems change approaches at the intersection of mental health and well-being and the social drivers of health. These organizations are driving innovation and cultural humility in mental and behavioral health care and services and are addressing the social drivers of mental and behavioral health, including but not limited to education, employment, social connection, and healthy relationships. They are utilizing diverse program models and approaches, leveraging technology, storytelling, policy advocacy, peer leadership, and other avenues to drive systemic change.
New Profit will provide $100,000 of unrestricted funding and $10,000 for leadership development, as well as strategic advisory support to each organization. Over the next year, cohort members will engage in a peer learning community that connects through virtual sessions and multi-day in-person convenings focused on building relationships with one another and tackling key leadership and organizational challenges.
We invite you to learn more about these organizations and the impact they’re creating below:
- Boys to Men Tucson, INC’s mission strengthens their communities by nurturing intentional spaces for boys, men, and masculine-identified folks to practice honest and mindful relationships.
- Closegap’s mission is to ensure every young person has access to emotional support from trusted adults and bite-sized mental health resources that help them reflect and grow.
- Daughters Beyond Incarceration’s vision is for every daughter with an incarcerated parent to live a healthy, stable life and have a strong, positive relationship with her parent during and after incarceration.
- Healing Together’s mission is to equip everyday leaders with skills in mental health and healing.
- L&J Empowerment, Inc. DBA The Confess Project of America is a national organization empowering frontline workers, barbers, and grooming professionals to be stewards of mental health.
- Mirror Memoirs’ is a national storytelling and organizing project offering a community of belonging for anyone who wants to end child sexual abuse without leaving any survivor behind and without enacting state violence.
- Ohio School-Based Health Alliance’s mission is to improve access to comprehensive, integrated health services through school-based health care to advance equity and improve health and education outcomes for students, their families, and communities.
- Open Source Wellness creates “Community as Medicine” by partnering with communities and healthcare to deliver joyful, trauma-informed, and culturally relevant programs for health, wellbeing, and human connection.
Stay up to date on these organizations and our full portfolio by subscribing to New Profit’s newsletter. Entrepreneurs in this cohort will also have the opportunity to share more about their work through our ongoing Social Entrepreneur Spotlight series. Learn more about New Profit’s funding opportunities here.
About New Profit
New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization that backs social entrepreneurs who are expanding access and opportunity in America. New Profit exists to build a bridge between these leaders and a community of philanthropists who are committed to catalyzing their impact. New Profit provides unrestricted grants and strategic support to a portfolio of organizations led by visionary social entrepreneurs to increase their impact, scale, and sustainability. It also partners with social entrepreneurs and other cross-sector leaders to shift how philanthropy pursues social change to ensure that all people can thrive. Since its founding in 1998, New Profit has invested over $350M in 275+ high-impact organizations.