Kaiser Permanente: Since 2020, LISC and its affiliate Broadstreet have deployed $23.5 million in grants and support from Kaiser Permanente and leveraged an additional $48.9 million in funding. These funds have advanced inclusive economic development activities in more than a dozen cities such as access to good jobs, wealth building, and supporting locally-owned businesses. Examples […]
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Supporting local, diverse & employee-owned food businesses with grants & loans
HAN members Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center provided a combination of low-interest loans and grants totaling $1 million to City Fresh Foods to buy and renovate an 18,000 sq. ft. building in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood in order to expand its operational capacity. The company is the only minority- and employee-owned, and minority-led food service company in Massachusetts. From […]
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HAN member Sentara Health is the founding partner of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) Hampton Roads chapter. In 2019, Sentara contributed $10 million to launch LISC Hampton Roads, which provides essential funding to address pressing issues such as access to quality affordable housing and financial stability for families. Its programs are driving health and wellness in […]
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HAN affiliate member Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. (MHM): In 2024, MHM provided $181.1 million in funding to advance health equity, strengthen communities, and impact systemic change across its 74-county service area. Nearly $28 million of the MHM funds support approaches that address the root causes of poverty and health inequities, such as cross-sector partnerships, community […]
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HAN member Cleveland Clinic, along with the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition and Starting Point, launched the Lead Safe Child Care Pilot Program, which will award 30 area child care providers with around $12,000 in grants and free services to remove lead hazards. Of the $52.5 million in grant funds that Cleveland Clinic has committed to the Lead Safe Cleveland Home […]
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For the fiscal year (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024), Trinity Health developed an innovative community impact measure which couples community benefit with additional indicators that measure: 1) work, 2) education, and 3) investments that achieve results above and beyond community benefit. Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative in 2022 funded nine multisector collaboratives to advance health and racial equity through policy, system, […]
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National Voter Registration Day – September 17, 2024 Celebrate democracy by helping to get every eligible American registered and #VoteReady for their next trip to the ballot box in 2024 and beyond! Vot-ER has free customized digital materials to print and use in your facilities and an email template to send to your staff for National Voter Registration Day. View Vot-ER’s upcoming webinars and […]
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Hospital and health system board members can be transformative leaders through a demonstrated commitment to health equity and diversity. This report contains case studies of executives and board members of organizations that are prioritizing diversity and health equity and inclusion, including interviews with HAN members UMass Memorial Health and Corewell Health.
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West Side United (WSU) is an anchor collaborative on Chicago’s west side whose members include HAN members Rush University System for Health, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Ascension. WSU members discussed the anchor collaborative’s strategies for the AMA Prioritizing Equity Series. Dr. David Ansell, Rush University Medical Center: Structural racism, economic disinvestment, these are historical trends, but they’re perpetuated in the day-to-day, and we had […]
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HAN member systems Corewell Health and Henry Ford Health joined the Detroit Chamber of Commerce to discuss how businesses are leading the effort to connect workforce shortage challenges with the half a million working-age adults in the Detroit Region who are disconnected from the workforce.From the Detroit Regional Chamber article: Regardless of the approach, all three panelists had a similar […]
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