Category: Community Engagement

The magnitude of the disaster forced philanthropies to learn quickly how to navigate complex public/private relief systems, flatten grantmaking processes, and work across sectors to identify and uphold nonprofits that provided relief for individuals and families, and to build the capacity of others that had the trust and knowledge of hard-to-reach communities such as immigrant and undocumented neighborhoods.

The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, IX Bishop of Texas and EHF’s chairman of the board explains how EHF is working to model what it means to be a ‘neighbor’ to a new kind of community, so we become healthier together.