Recently, Aetna has announced that its Local Roots program will support the creation and expansion of community gardens, urban farms, and farmers’ markets in urban, disadvantaged communities.
RWJF is not the only foundation that's declared war on a toxic U.S. lifestyle and wasteful healthcare system. Kresge also wants to change how Americans live and how a $3 trillion health system operates.
Impact investing is really gaining steam. The push to improve food choices, and health, is also a red hot trend. More and more, these two movements are coming together. Like in this recent loan to L.A. Kitchen.
With growing resources and clout, state healthcare foundations deserve more attention. A case in point: the Kansas Healthcare Foundation, now the biggest philanthropic entity in that whole state.
The thinking here is that, through education and support, nurses can emerge as leaders at the community level to push strategies to improve the health of the population.
Beyond a compelling model, PHE has local presence in cities with many active funders, and connecting up with those funders has been key to its growth. We take a quick look at the money trail.
While fossil fuel stocks have been in the crosshairs of divestment advocates for a while now, junk food stocks are a more recent target. Just look at the Gates Foundation's big sell-off recently.
BUILD Health is one of those ambitious funder collaboratives that aims to get people out of their silos and make vital connections-- now, the de Beaumont Foundation is taking it even further.
You wouldn’t think of checking out a new restaurant without first checking its Yelp review, would you? So, wouldn’t it be nice if you could read reviews of your local healthcare services before trying them out?
Oral hygiene and dental care are not exactly top issues in the foundation world, and in fact we've never run a story before on this niche. But the Kellogg Foundation has made this a priority. Here's why.
Inner cities are food deserts, chronic diseases rates keep going up, and meanwhile public health workers are relying on stale data. Can $7.5 million make a dent in these problems?
RWJF is very focused these days on attracting innovators as it works to build a culture of health, and one way it's doing that is by hosting podcast conversations that explore ideas.
The foundation's push to help more nurses get doctorates is part of a broader strategy of advancing a culture of health by creating a new cadre of sophisticated leaders in the healthcare field.
Funders like Kresge are keeping up the push to bring better food choices to underserved communities, and the strategies are getting more sophisticated, including leveraging food stamp money.
We're seeing more grantmaking to explore the foggy intersections where health meets nutrition, exercise, and even meditation. But David Murdock's latest gift to research food is the biggest we've seen yet.
Mars, Inc. will pump the money into UC Davis to back innovative work on food and health. Should we be nervous when Big Food has a big footprint in academic research settings? The answer is that it depends.
Widespread hunger in the United States, with all its wealth, stands out as notably obscene, and it's hard to imagine that there's isn't a ready fix for this public health problem. All of which helps explain why Feeding America is the fourth-largest charity in the country.
New Profit loves scrappy startups with smart and creative young founders, but this grantmaker also invests in more established outfits. What kinds of organizations are they supporting in public health space?
Kicking around big ideas is important for any organization looking to solve major problems, since you never know where breakthrough thinking will come from. America's top healthcare funder is one place opening its mind.