What Are the Giving Priorities of This New Healthcare Giant?

What Are the Giving Priorities of This New Healthcare Giant?

Following a $70 billion merger, CVS Health and Aetna are doing more than fusing companies—they’re combining their corporate giving and have already made millions of dollars in grants. What’s the strategy? And which nonprofits are getting money?

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Filling the Vacuum: A Health Insurance Funder Steps Up to Fight the Opioid Crisis

Filling the Vacuum: A Health Insurance Funder Steps Up to Fight the Opioid Crisis

Top health grantmakers have been so busy working upstream on the causes of poor health that they've been MIA on the worst public health crisis in recent memory. But here's a funder that's paying new attention.   

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Vital Signs: A Health Insurer Looks Upstream with Its Corporate Giving

Vital Signs: A Health Insurer Looks Upstream with Its Corporate Giving

In another sign of the spread of grantmaking focused on the social determinants of health, Aetna's philanthropic arm is backing things like bike share programs and fitness trails in low-income neighborhoods.  

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Another Funder That's Looking Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

Another Funder That's Looking Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

The list of funders focusing "upstream" on the social determinants of health keeps growing. Here's a corporate foundation that has especially good reasons to be in this space. 

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What's the Aetna Foundation Up to Lately With Its Public Health Funding?

What's the Aetna Foundation Up to Lately With Its Public Health Funding?

Community health groups have the power to affect significant change in behavior. Which is one reason this funder sends grants their way. 

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