Funding & Partnerships
Partner With Nicole Washington Ministries
Some work begins with a vision. Some begins with a need you can no longer ignore. Ours began with both.
Nicole Washington Ministries has historically been sustained through the personal commitment and resources of its founder. As the ministry's community, educational, health-advocacy, and support work expands, we are intentionally opening the door to foundations, corporations, healthcare organizations, churches, community partners, and individuals who want to help extend that work.
We are not looking for partners simply to fund an organization. We are looking for partners who want to help people.
Who We Are
Faith That Shows Up in Real Life
Nicole Washington Ministries is a faith-based nonprofit ministry providing biblical teaching, prayer, practical resources, community support, health advocacy, education, outreach, and programs designed to help people navigate life's hardest seasons with faith, wisdom, dignity, and hope.
Our work grows from a simple conviction: people should not have to face life's hardest places alone.
Established ministry leadership
Biblical teaching and educational resources
Community engagement
Health advocacy
Patient and caregiver support
Scholarships
Outreach
Digital ministry access
Organizational Capacity
Why Nicole Washington Ministries
Established Leadership. Lived Experience. A Growing Capacity to Serve.
Established Ministry Leadership
Decades of pastoral leadership, biblical teaching, counseling, communication, and service inform the ministry's approach — more than four decades of ministry and teaching experience.
Lived Experience
Nicole Washington Ministries does not approach life's hardest seasons only theoretically. This work is informed by lived experience involving serious illness, dialysis, caregiving, marriage after catastrophic illness, grief, resilience, faith, and community advocacy.
Educational Infrastructure
NicoleWashington.org contains an extensive and growing body of free biblical teaching, prayer, Bible study, Communion, wisdom, declarations, and practical resources.
Community Connection
The ministry engages people through community outreach, support, education, dialysis-community engagement, speaking, volunteerism, and other approved work.
Governance
Nicole Washington Ministries is governed by an established Board of Directors providing organizational oversight and stewardship.
Founder-Supported History
Nicole Washington Ministries has historically been sustained through the personal commitment and resources of its founder. As the ministry enters a new phase of community and health-impact work, it is developing philanthropic and institutional partnerships to expand its reach responsibly.
Our Funding Priorities
Six Lanes for Partnership
Partnership allows Nicole Washington Ministries to move from helping where we can to building sustainable capacity to help more people, more consistently, in more communities.
IMPACT Black Kidney Health
IMPACT Black Kidney Health brings trusted kidney-health education, early-awareness resources, patient and caregiver support, advocacy, and community engagement closer to Black families disproportionately affected by kidney disease.
Within This Lane
IMPACT Kidney Journey Model™
Help build a replicable kidney-health model spanning early awareness, dialysis navigation, transplantation, caregiving, community education, and patient support.
Caregiver Support & Education
Caring for someone you love can change every part of your life. Caregivers need more than encouragement — they need information, connection, practical resources, spiritual support, and places where someone understands the weight they carry. The Caregiver Support & Education Initiative is being developed to meet that need.
Education & Scholarships
Two distinct scholarship programs help students continue their education. Scholarship awards depend upon available funding and established selection criteria.
Ida B. Wells Educational Scholarship Fund
Explore the Ida B. Wells ScholarshipNicole Washington STILL HERE Scholarship
Explore the STILL HERE ScholarshipCommunity Outreach
Nicole Washington Ministries seeks to meet people not only with words, but with practical expressions of care.
Digital Ministry & Educational Access
Keeping trusted ministry resources accessible. Nicole Washington Ministries provides an extensive and growing body of biblical teaching, prayer, Scripture, wisdom, Bible study, Communion, and practical resources online — much of it intentionally available without charge so people can find help when they need it.
Future Capacity & Infrastructure
Appropriate organizational and program infrastructure necessary to expand responsible ministry work — including future physical program space where approved.
The STILL HERE Fund
The STILL HERE Fund is a funding and charitable-support mechanism of Nicole Washington Ministries. It may help support approved ministry work.
Learn About The STILL HERE FundWays to Partner
Not Every Partnership Is a Grant
Grant Funding
Foundation or institutional support for approved programs and capacity.
Corporate Support
Program sponsorship, educational-resource support, community initiatives, or appropriate in-kind support.
Healthcare Partnership
Community education, patient/caregiver resource connection, health-awareness collaboration, and appropriate outreach.
Church & Faith-Community Partnership
Host education, caregiver support, community outreach, IMPACT programming, or other approved ministry initiatives.
Community Organization Partnership
Collaborate around education, outreach, resource connection, and community needs.
Individual Philanthropy
Support Nicole Washington Ministries and its expanding charitable work.
What Funding Makes Possible
Funding Motivates the Mission Forward
Funding is not the mission. It makes more of the mission possible.
More people reached
More trusted resources created
More communities equipped
More caregivers supported
More families reached before kidney disease becomes a crisis
More students given an opportunity to continue their education
More ministry resources available to people who may never be able to pay for them
These are directional statements — forward-looking aspirations, not claims of completed outcomes.
Accountability
Good Intentions Should Produce Measurable Work
As Nicole Washington Ministries expands funded programming, we are committed to measuring both reach and meaningful participant response. Evaluation will be appropriate to each program and to the scope of funded work.
Participants reached
Educational resources distributed
Community organizations engaged
Churches engaged
Program participation
Knowledge/awareness changes
Resource connections
Ambassadors or volunteers trained
Scholarship awards when funded
Participant feedback
Program partnerships
Appropriate follow-up measures
Specific objectives and annual targets will be established according to funded program scope and available resources.
Partnership Contact
Let's Talk About Partnership
If your foundation, organization, church, company, or institution sees alignment with this work, we would welcome a conversation.
Contact our team to discuss grant funding, corporate support, healthcare partnership, church or community partnership, or individual philanthropy. Find more detail on the IMPACT funding overview and the work in action.
Organizational & Funding Overview
Want the Complete Picture?
Download "Nicole Washington Ministries — Organizational & Funding Overview": a concise overview of who we are, who we serve, our current funding priorities, IMPACT Black Kidney Health, organizational capacity, accountability framework, and opportunities for partnership.
Interested in discussing partnership? If your foundation, healthcare organization, corporation, church, community organization, or institution sees alignment with this work, we welcome a conversation.
Start a Partnership Conversation