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In an opinion piece in the Grantmakers In Health “News from the Field” newsletter, David Zuckerman and Bich Ha Pham make the case for funders to support expansion of anchor mission work as a strategic priority.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Student fieldwork helps anchor Worcester-based health care system in community” article discusses how two doctor of public health (DrPH) students, Ahmad Al Kasir and Eric Coles, worked with Healthcare Anchor Network member UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Massachusetts to develop its ambitious new anchor mission strategy.

​Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a member of the Healthcare Anchor Network, has started the CHOP Cares Grant Program, a unique program to help its employees improve community members’ health by applying for grants for projects seeking to address a broad range of health and wellness concerns.

Boston Ujima Project is a community controlled engine for economic revitalization directed by those most marginalized in the current system, working intentionally to channel impact investing to community-owned businesses—and to connect those businesses to the anchor procurement opportunities that can help them thrive.

A new report, Advancing Health Equity in San Francisco, represents the first step in implementing a long-term strategy to harnessing HAN member University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) economic power to promote health equity in San Francisco. UCSF is committing to an expanded and deepened anchor mission, and aims to capitalize on its position as the second largest employer in the city and its economic impact as a $7 billion enterprise.

The Healthcare Anchor Network collaborated with Modern Healthcare on a successful conference focused on the SDOH and anchor mission work. The symposium was attended by 300 healthcare sector executives, leaders and providers, who were interested in learning more about how hospitals and health systems can adopt anchor mission work.

​This new report by Justine Porter, Danny Fisher-Bruns and Bich Ha Pham of The Democracy Collaborative, discusses the work of anchor institutions (including several HAN members) and partner organizations that have joined to form place-based networks, or anchor collaboratives, to develop, implement, and support shared goals and initiatives that advance equitable and inclusive economic development strategies.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Anchoring Health beyond Clinical Care: UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission Project” showcases how HAN and its health systems supported UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission journey.