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Across the country, Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members are shifting their resources for community giving to align with their anchor mission strategies and support community wealth building. This edition of our newsletter highlights examples of HAN members going upstream with their community giving to better address root cause issues and strengthen their neighborhoods. HAN is curious […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]