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Grantees in action

The Foundation makes grants intended to stimulate innovation of new and emerging best practices to improve clinical and community health outcomes. Grantees in our priority communities illustrate our collective commitment to providing resources that improve clinical and community health outcomes. Through this work we have grown to understand the importance of community-led response to improving community health outcomes.

Discover the value of these public-private partnerships in achieving our collective goals and purpose of “working together to create a healthier world, one life at a time.”

Priority communities

Chicago 

 

One of our newest community collaborations is in Chicago's West Side—among the communities hardest hit by food insecurity and associated health outcomes. Efforts here are laser focused on building community-based organizations’ capacity to achieve sustainable access to healthy and nutritious foods for local residents. 

 

Grantee: West Side United

 

Time frame: 2024 - present 

 

Area of impact: Chronic cardiometabolic conditions, food/nutritional security 

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Paterson

 

Improving the community's health is a team effort for grantees in Paterson, New Jersey. Together, these organizations are changing the way medical students are trained, linking moms to critical prenatal and postpartum care with doulas, and increasing awareness of resources to combat diabetes and other chronic conditions through community health workers.  They are also leveraging the value of no-cost testing to enable early detection, education, and intervention for the community.

 

Grantees: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Health Coalition of Passaic County, St. Joseph’s Health Foundation

 

Time frame: 2024 – present

 

Areas of Impact: Workforce development, maternal/child health, chronic cardiometabolic conditions  

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Baltimore 

 

Improving health and access to healthcare is top of mind for grantees in Baltimore, where the Foundation awarded funding to coalitions and community-based organizations to help break down barriers and engage residents across this community. 

 

GranteesBaltimore CONNECT, Y in Druid Hill, Chase BrextonExperience CampsGreen Bronx Machine, and Black Girls Health Foundation

 

Time frame: 2022 - present 

 

Areas of impact: Healthcare access, chronic and cardiometabolic conditions, nutritional security, mental health 

Side view of overweight african american senior woman cooking healthy veggie dinner standing next to counter chopping and slicing vegetables, zucchini and bell pepper, using new recipe

Houston

 

Past and current grantees have focused efforts on improving the health and well-being of residents of Houston's Fifth Ward.  Collectively, these organizations worked to close gaps in healthcare access through care coordination, no-cost testing and screening, and health education for residents.


Grantee: Bread of Life, March of Dimes, National Minority Quality Forum


Time frame: 2022 - Present

 

Area of impact: Chronic conditions, food security, healthcare access, maternal child health

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