Views from teh Field: What it takes for a foundation to achieve success

What It Takes for a Foundation to Achieve Success: Essential Ingredients and Lessons Learned

Create healthy outcomes through lasting systems change for children in the state of Connecticut. This was the charge to the Children’s Fund of Connecticut when it was created 25 years ago as a public charitable foundation.

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Promoting Nurturing Care for Our Youngest Children

Early childhood matters. Mounting evidence over the last several decades has demonstrated the importance of the early years to long term health, behavior, and learning.

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A Southern Foundation’s Journey towards Equity

Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (RMHF) has been on an arc of change for many years, accelerating integration of an equity approach over the past three.

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Dentistry’s Newest Profession: Expanding Access, Creating Equity, Improving Health

Dental therapists are oral health care’s newest professionals. In the same way that physician assistants work with medical teams, dental therapists are supervised by dentists and expand the reach of the dental team, which allows people to get dental care in communities that have long gone without it.

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DC in Color

Washington, DC is one of the most segregated cities in the United States, with many of its Black residents living east of the Anacostia River and its white and Hispanic residents living west of the river.

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Cone Health Foundation is Taking the Long View: Public Policy Advocacy

To date, Cone Health Foundation has made grant investments of $86 million, spread over 1,500 grants in four priority areas (access to care, adolescent pregnancy prevention, HIV, and mental health and substance use disorders).

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Small New Hampshire Foundation Steps Up to Spark State Health Coverage Opportunities

In keeping with its mission, the HNH Foundation has a long history of supporting health insurance coverage initiatives designed to improve the health and wellness of New Hampshire’s population, with a focus on the state’s most vulnerable children. 

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Access to Coverage: A Continued Focus in Uncertain Times

A few short years ago, Minnesota celebrated an all-time low rate of uninsurance. Through the collective effort of navigators, nonprofits, state agencies, health care institutions, and funders across the state, the rate plummeted from 8.2 percent in 2013 to 4.3 percent in 2015.

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Sustaining a Statewide Coalition to Improve Access to Care and Coverage

2013 was a year like no other for coverage advocates in the United States. With the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) first year of open enrollment nearly upon us, Vitalyst Health Foundation initially convened a small group of key Arizona partners to discuss how to most effectively deal with an incredible coverage opportunity amidst an uncertain landscape.

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Older Adults are a Critical Asset to Building Healthy Communities – A Call for an Intersectional Approach

St. David’s Foundation considers the well-being of older adults as a fundamental aspect to our goal of building the healthiest community in the world. However, for many donors, supporting older adults is not a funding priority.

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