December Professional Development | Dogwood Health Trust’s 2024 Grantmaking
Mark Constantine, Dogwood Health Trust’s Senior Vice President of Community Investment, will share an overview of how Dogwood will approach grantmaking in 2024, including a single cycle for Strategic Priority Grant Opportunities, a rolling application process for community and racial equity, policy and advocacy, sustainable organizations, and impact investing, visits to all counties and the Qualla Boundary, the start of their Broadband Initiative, and streamlining their processes to better serve their partners.
Presented by Mark Constantine. Mark joined the Dogwood Health Trust team in April 2023 as Senior Vice President of Community Investment. Prior to joining Dogwood, Mark served as President and CEO of Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (RMHF). He also served as senior vice president at the Jessie Ball duPont Fund in Jacksonville, Florida. He has previously consulted to foundations and national nonprofit organizations on issues related to governance, strategy, and learning for more than a decade, including CFED, Demos, First Nations Development Institute, Ford Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Southern Education Foundation. In addition, he served as the assistant executive director of the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund and as a senior fellow of the Foundation for the Mid-South. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business (Duke University), and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Duke Divinity School.
