The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation advances health equity for underserved populations around the world. Achieving health equity takes more than financial resources and good intentions; it requires empowering and supporting new ideas with the potential to improve and flourish. Our guiding principles help us create meaningful and lasting impact.

Increase awareness, engagement and influence

We support programs that educate under-resourced communities and engage people in healthy behaviors. Improving education and awareness helps at-risk patients have better health outcomes with early diagnosis and quality medical care.

Funding innovation

We invest in creative solutions, new approaches and inventive concepts to advance health equity, enabling our grantees to explore their effectiveness and develop data that demonstrates their value.

Driving positive health outcomes

We work across the full continuum of care from education to diagnosis to treatment to support our grantees’ efforts to give patients longer, healthier lives.

Advocating, sustaining and replicating change

We help our grantees to develop self-sustaining programs that create lasting positive change. We work with governments, civil society organizations, public institutions and private sector sponsors toward the elimination of barriers to improving health outcomes.

At the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we believe that geographic, economic, racial or social circumstances should not determine health outcomes. We support that conviction with developing grantee relationships focused on cancers, cardiovascular disease and immunologic disease in under-served communities and regions in the world that are less developed and heavily burdened. Currently, we are funding programs in the US, nine African countries, Brazil and China.

For U.S only

Bristol Myers Squibb is committed to the important work we do to increase health equity for better patient outcomes. We provide funding to support effective solutions with the goal of removing barriers and improving access to quality care for medically underserved and diverse patient populations. 

As part of our commitment, we accept applications throughout the year to support initiatives focused on our therapeutic areas of interest in one or more of the categories below:

1. Disease awareness & education

2. Access to quality care

3. Patient support services

4. Diversity in clinical trials

5. Diversity in healthcare and research workforce

6. Health equity policy and advocacy support

Bristol Myers Squibb accepts community giving requests from organizations located near these locations in the continental United States:

• Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Devens, Massachusetts

• New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Lawrenceville, New Jersey

• Princeton, New Jersey

• Redwood City, California

• San Diego, California

• Seattle, Washington

• Tampa, Florida

• West Windsor, New Jersey

Organization eligibility and requirements:

-Bristol Myers Squibb Corporate Giving is generally made to organizations that have a not-for-profit status. Exceptions include:

• For-profit medical education providers or medical conference meeting organizers seeking support for Independent Medical Education or Continuing Medical Education.

• For-profit organizations implementing medical education initiatives and activities that do not meet the above criteria and do not have recent contractual business with BMS.
  

-Bristol Myers Squibb will consider its overall, annual financial support of the requesting organization relative to the organization’s most recent annual gross income.

-As part of due diligence for new organizations that haven’t previously applied for Corporate Giving support through the Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) Giving Portal (CyberGrants), organizations may be asked to provide information including:

• Names of the organization’s Board of Directors and/or Principals

• Organization’s Mission Statement

• Articles of Incorporation or Articles of Registration

• Most recent year-end tax filing or audited financial statement

• Detailed budget for the proposed activity at the per-person level*
  

-A Letter of Agreement must be signed prior to the event date by the recipient organization. The signed Letter of Agreement constitutes BMS’ financial commitment of support of the proposed event or activity.

-Bristol Myers Squibb will provide payment for an approved request only to the requesting organization or its fiscal agent.

To learn more about our grantmaking process, contact us at foundation@bms.com