Transforming Chaplaincy
actively partners with healthcare systems, hospitals, and foundations towards supporting the mission of TC and executing impactful research and implementation projects in spiritual care and chaplaincy.
Supporting Partners
Supporting Partnerships are multi-year commitments from healthcare systems, hospitals, and foundations to support the mission of Transforming Chaplaincy alongside receiving priority access and scholarships for TC’s education programs for their chaplains and leaders. Supporting Partnerships also include opportunities to shape the research agenda for chaplaincy and participate or partner in Transforming Chaplaincy’s research.
These Insitutions Support Transforming Chaplaincy through multi-year Supporting Partnerships
Gold Tier Supporting Partner (100k + / multi-year support)
Providence St. Joseph Health
Silver Tier Supporting Partners (35k+ / multi-year support)
Indiana University Health
Ceders Sinai
If your organization is interested in exploring a supporting partnership, the first step is to reach out to Cate Beaulieu-Desjardins for an initial conversation. All supporting partnerships are co-created to maximize TC’s ability to help the partner organization with their own research, leadership and education goals.
Transforming Chaplaincy further appreciates these multi-year project grants and partnerships:
Pediatrics:
Stanford Children’s Health has generously partnered with Transforming Chaplaincy on two projects: mapping the pediatric spiritual care workforce and services (November 2024-August 2025) and the develpopment of an ongoing Spiritual Care Research Leaders Network.
Pediatric Chaplains Network has long been a partner and champion of the work of Transforming Chaplaincy, including with pilot research funding, supporting projects in pediatric chaplains’ education, pediatric spiritual assessment, and pediatric chaplains’ engagement in ethics.
Palliative Care:
The Cambia Health Foundation named TC Leadership Team Member Paul Galchutt as a Cambia Sojourn Scholar, supporting Paul’s work with Transforming Chaplaincy and his ongoing research in palliative care chaplaincy.
Funding History:
TC’s research and programs have been supported by numerous foundations and organizations over the years, including the John Templeton Foundation, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Fetzer Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, Foundation for ACPE, Association of Professional Chaplains, Pediatric Chaplains Network, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Providence is pleased to be a supporting partner of Transforming Chaplaincy as it has been a mutually beneficial relationship for almost three years. During this time, Providence has benefited from a number of our chaplains participating in the programs offered through TC. We have had chaplains promoted into leadership roles and others who have applied their learnings from the research and network groups to start exciting and innovative programs in spiritual health.
Theresa Vithayathil Edmonson
Vice President Spiritual Health
Transforming Chaplaincy
We love hearing from leaders and researchers interested in supporting partnerships and impactful collaborations. For chaplains looking to get involved in research for the first time, please see our Education page.
In Chicago
Rush University Medical Center
Dept. of Religion, Health & Human Values
Suite 028 Annex
1653 West Congress Parkway
Chicago, IL 60612
transforming_chaplaincy@rush.edu