Medical Mission Trips: Volunteers Needed, Grants Available

The Making a Difference Foundation is partnering with several nonprofit organizations who need volunteer healthcare providers to join medical mission trips throughout the world. If you are interested, we want to help! If you are a licensed medical provider who wants to deliver healthcare and make a difference to communities…

Compassion in action – see the impact so far in 2025

As we reach the midpoint of the year, we want to pause and recognize the impact we have had so far in 2025.  Your support of the Making a Difference Foundation fuels meaningful work across local nonprofits, medical missions, crisis relief, and sustainable healthcare. Together, we’re turning compassion into action….

Local Grant Spotlight

Can $2,500 Change the World? Maybe not the whole world—but it can make a meaningful impact on a local organization close to your heart. At the Making a Difference Foundation, part of our mission is to support the volunteer passions of CHG Healthcare employees by providing grants to the nonprofits…

Making a Difference Through Medical Mission Trips

  At the Making a Difference Foundation, we believe in the power of compassionate care. That’s why we offer grants to help licensed healthcare providers bring medical services to underserved communities around the world through international mission trips. One inspiring example is Savara Etheredge, a nurse from the United States…

New Video

This past year we put together a little video that helps to explain who we are and the work we hope to accomplish while we fulfill our mission of igniting and supporting the volunteer passions of CHG employees and medical providers in their communities and around the world. We also…

2022 Annual Report

Dear Friends of the Making a Difference Foundation, Our annual report theme this year is passion and is best summed up by this quote from Georg Hegel, “Nothing great in this world is ever accomplished without passion.” Hopefully, 2022 allowed each of you to create your new normal after two…

My Trip To Argentina

Guest Blogger: Greg McLeod, MADF Board of Directors Have you ever seen what it’s like when people don’t have access to but need medical care? I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to serve on a medical mission trip in Mendoza Argentina this past September and while the…

2021 Annual Report

2021 marked the Making a Difference Foundation’s 5-year anniversary as an organization. It’s incredible to think about how much we have grown and changed since our humble beginnings in late 2016. In our annual report we hope you will celebrate with us in all that we’ve accomplished in developing into…

Local Grant Video: The Mundi Project

Lexi Graham, from our CHG Healthcare Salt Lake City office, talks about her experience volunteering with the Mundi Project and applying for a Local Grant in this video!

Floating Doctors

The Making a Difference Foundation believes in the power of igniting the passions of medical providers through medical mission trips. But we also believe, that to go far, you must go together. That’s why we partner with world class organizations like Floating Doctors. Floating Doctors believes that if the patients…