Celebrating Our National Network of Awardees

Past and current funding recipients in Chicago have concentrated their efforts on creating strong, neighborhood-level clinical linkages to tackle maternal and cardiometabolic disparities.

Maternal Support: Awardees coordinate local doula networks and mobile healthcare clinics to provide comprehensive prenatal education and combat clinical emergencies.

Community-Led Education: Activating community health advocates to deliver preventative cardiovascular guidance and conduct regular, neighborhood-based screening events.

Grantees: West Side United, March of Dimes

Time frame: 2024 - present 

Past and current funding recipients in Paterson have concentrated their efforts on elevating the clinical capacity of local health centers to better serve underinsured and uninsured families.

Clinic Enhancements: Collaborators focus on expanding primary care access, helping community clinics integrate robust diagnostic screening for diabetes and hypertension.

Navigational Support: Organizing patient assistance networks to guide individuals from initial screenings into long-term medical management and treatment plans.

Workforce Development: Intentionally reimagining the way the physician workforce is developed by directly engaging local medical students in community-centered care and human dimensions

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

Time frame: 2024 – present

Past and current funding recipients in Baltimore have concentrated their efforts on expanding access to preventive diagnostics and addressing systemic barriers to care in under resourced neighborhoods.  Collectively, this has increased the number of local community health workers and mobilized a coalition for sustained services.

Diagnostic Outreach: Awardees focus on deploying mobile screening units and community health clinics to provide no-cost lab assessments directly to residents.

Resource Integration: Establishing clear referral pathways from the community into clinical care settings and responding to critical social drivers of health, including local nutritional support programs.

Grantees: Baltimore CONNECT, Y in Druid Hill, Chase Brexton, Experience Camps, Green Bronx Machine, and Black Girls Health Foundation

Time frame: 2022 - present 

Past and current funding recipients in Houston have concentrated their efforts on elevating the health and clinical care pathways for residents of the historic Fifth Ward.

Care Coordination: Awardees work in close alignment to close gaps in preventive medicine through systematic care coordination and no-cost diagnostic screenings.

Health Education: Deploying neighborhood-based health workshops to foster individual health autonomy and manage chronic cardiometabolic risks.

Grantees: Bread of Life, March of Dimes, Green Bronx Machine