Radically transforming the landscape of global mental health
Ember Mental Health invests in community-led mental health care: backing it with flexible funding, tailored capacity strengthening, and strategic connections so organisations can grow, influence systems, and help more people access care that works for them.
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Insights from Ember's 2024 Call-Out: What we heard from community-led mental health organisations
Ember’s 2024 Call-Out reveals how community-led mental health initiatives across LMICs transforming care. Explore our latest Insights Report to discover where innovation is growing and why it needs our collective support.
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Ember's Take on Wellbeing
This piece explores why caring for the carers is essential to the long-term sustainability of mental health work, sharing Ember’s insights on placing wellbeing at the heart of community-led initiatives.
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Dance Meets Mental Health Care: A Vietnam Dance Movement Therapy Film, Vietnam
Part of the What Makes You Proud film series, this blog follows VDMT's community-based mental health work in Vietnam, where movement becomes a pathway to healing, expression, and wellbeing. It offers a closer look at how they are providing tailored, holistic care for communities ranging from students and war veterans to survivors of domestic violence and older people.
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Mental health care is already happening.
We help it thrive.
Our vision is to become the largest global funders in community-based mental health initiatives, giving people access to a wider diversity of mental health support.
What we do?
We find
We identify excellent community-based mental health initiatives through a global call-out to select a diverse cohort of initiatives to work with
We mentor
Our capacity strengthening program focuses on the core domains that support organisational maturity and financial sustainability: through close partnerships, tailored in-kind support, peer learning, and dedicated investment in team wellbeing.
We fund
We provide flexible funding to selected initiatives, prioritising those with the greatest potential and where our support can make the biggest difference.
We nurture
We nurture the ecosystem by amplifying insights from our partners, engaging new funders, enabling strategic connections across stakeholders, and bringing in cross-sector knowledge to strengthen the field.
Impact
106
Organisations supported
$1.2M
Invested directly into organisations
1000+
Hours of tailored support delivered
Meet the organisations shaping the future of mental health care
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We like sharing the occasional update with our network, including about our call-outs, events we're organising, insights from our partnerships with community-based initiatives around the world, and creative pieces telling the stories of their work.
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