Expanding What’s Possible in Mental Health.
Peg’s brings people, ideas, and resources together to drive meaningful change and improve lives.
Peg’s at a Glance
Peg’s drives progress in mental health by bringing people, ideas, and resources together in powerful ways. We focus on strengthening systems, elevating lived experience, and raising the standard of care for people with serious mental illness to create meaningful, lasting change.
- Advancing mental health through leadership, partnership, and public engagement
- Supporting initiatives and collaborations that strengthen systems and expand access to care
- Creating space for conversations that shift perspectives and spark progress
- Improving how mental health systems work for everyone
Invested since 2005
Years of sustained impact
Cross-Sector Collaborations
Our Focus
Systems Change & Innovation
Driving Systems Forward to Improve Mental Health
We invest in bold ideas, emerging models, and long-term solutions that strengthen mental health systems and challenge the status quo.
Partnerships & Collaboration
Bringing the Right People Together
Peg’s convenes leaders, partners, and lived experience across sectors to spark collaboration, alignment, and shared progress.
Community & Connection
Building Connection and Understanding
Through place, art, and dialogue, we create environments that reduce stigma, foster empathy, and strengthen community.
The Mission in Action
Stories and results that reflect the people, partnerships, and progress behind Peg’s work.
Uniting leaders to transform mental health care
Launched during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CEO Alliance for Mental Health brings together sixteen of the nation’s leading organizations to advance a shared vision for transforming mental health and substance use care. Convened in partnership with Peg’s, the Alliance represents a rare commitment by sector leaders to collaborate, align, and chart a new course for improving lives across the country.
Learn About the CEO Alliance
Advancing Policy Through Collaboration
Peg’s works alongside policymakers, funders, and public agencies to support mental health policies rooted in real-world experience. By prioritizing collaboration, capacity building, and evidence-based solutions, the foundation helps advance policy approaches that lead to lasting improvements in care.
Learn About Policy WorkImproving how behavioral health crises are met
Clear Pathways is an initiative of Peg’s designed to improve how communities respond to behavioral health crises. By aligning systems around person-centered care, the work helps ensure adults experiencing a mental health emergency are met with coordinated, compassionate, and effective support when it matters most.
Learn About Clear Pathways
Practicing Mindful Philanthropy
Meaningful change requires intention, patience, and trust. By approaching philanthropy as a long-term partnership rather than a transaction, Peg’s invests in work that is thoughtful, relationship-driven, and grounded in real-world impact. This approach allows resources to be deployed where they can do the most good, while staying aligned with values, outcomes, and community needs.
Learn About Grant OpportunitiesShaping national conversations on mental health policy
Think Bigger Do Good is a collaborative policy initiative commissioned with leading national foundations that helps shape mental health conversations across the country. Guided by a council of widely recognized experts, the project produces solutions-oriented policy papers designed to inform priorities, influence advocacy, and drive meaningful legislative change.
Learn About Think Bigger Do Good
Investing in the Future of Mental Health Care
When Peg and her husband, Burton D. Morgan, were seeking care for their son, they confronted the limits of the mental health system firsthand. In response, Peg’s Foundation established an endowed chair in psychiatry at Northeast Ohio Medical University to support long-term leadership, research, and education in mental health care. The endowment reflects a commitment to strengthening the field for future generations.
Learn About EndowmentsVisit Peg’s
Peg’s is a vibrant, welcoming campus where people come together around ideas that matter. It is a place designed to be experienced, not rushed, and one that invites conversation, reflection, and connection. The campus is home to Peg’s headquarters and includes thoughtfully designed indoor and outdoor spaces that support gatherings both large and small.
Some moments are shared through public events and exhibitions. Others are quieter, offering room to pause, reflect, and engage at a more personal pace. Together, these experiences create an environment that deepens understanding and encourages meaningful dialogue around mental health.
Anchored by Peg’s headquarters, the campus includes the historic Baldwin Buss Merino House. Built in 1825, the home has been thoughtfully restored to honor its legacy and ensure its continued use for years to come.
Today, the house offers an inviting setting for gathering, learning, and meaningful conversation. Its presence on our campus gives life to a landmark structure that remains integral to the City of Hudson’s historic fabric.
Peg’s Gallery
Peg Morgan’s genuine enjoyment of the arts shaped the Foundation from the beginning. Peg’s Gallery honors that legacy by using art to bring people together and open conversations that deepen understanding around mental health.
The Gallery is a place to encounter new perspectives. Rotating exhibitions and programs create moments for reflection and dialogue, inviting visitors to slow down and engage more deeply.
By highlighting artists and perspectives from the community, the Gallery fosters personal connection and shared understanding — continuing our founder’s belief that art can build empathy, shift perspectives, and bring people closer together.
Upcoming Events
Ways to get involved, connect, and be part of the conversation.
Illuminated Fundamentals
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 | 5 – 7PM Illuminated Fundamentals centers on the essential elements that support a meaningful, connected life—purpose, autonomy, connection, self-acceptance, play, and strong support networks. These fundamentals shape … Continued
Texture & Repetition: Stencils are OK
Join artist Micah Kraus for a hands-on workshop exploring texture, repetition, and layering through stencil-based mark making. Approaching creativity through the lens of a printmaker, Kraus’s practice centers on process, iteration, and … Continued
NAMI Family Support Group
On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, Peg’s Gallery hosts a free NAMI Family Support Group for relatives, partners, and friends of individuals living with mental illness. This peer-led group offers understanding, … Continued
Big problems require even bigger thinking. #ThinkBigger
Sometimes, recovery starts with something as simple as a scribble.
At Community Support Services’ Art of Recovery, Michelle Morton reminded us that healing isn’t linear—it’s layered, messy, and different for everyone.
As Expressive Arts Administrator, she shared an exercise where participants begin with a simple scribble, find a heart within it, and then tear and rebuild the page in a new way—a reflection of change itself: disrupted, imperfect, but full of possibility.
That spirit of possibility was everywhere in the room. In the artwork. In the courage it takes to share it. In the community that shows up to support it.
We’re grateful for longtime partners like @communitysupportservices_ccs, whose work continues to create space for expression, connection, and recovery. 🩵
#ThinkBigger
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Nearly two decades ago, Peg’s Foundation helped support a new approach to pediatric psychiatric emergencies at @akronchildrens.
That early investment helped launch the Psychiatric Intake Response Center (PIRC)—now a national model for supporting children in crisis.
Featured in “Children’s Progress,” this story highlights how bold, innovative partnerships can transform systems of care for children and their families.
#ThinkBigger #BehavioralHealth #YouthMentalHealth
No one should have to navigate a maze to get help in a moment of crisis.
That’s why Clear Pathways exists—to build scalable, sustainable crisis response systems.
#ThinkBigger #CrisisResponse
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