EHF’s Grantee SPOTLIGHT: Strengthening skills to promote healthy early relationships and brain development for children at The Georgetown Project
New video shows how EHF’s investments are being used at TGP’s community-based Parent Center program.
New video shows how EHF’s investments are being used at TGP’s community-based Parent Center program.
As we end #BlackMaternalHealthWeek (BMHW) 2024, we’re faced with alarming data that is a call to action. In Texas, Black Texans die from pregnancy-related causes at twice the rate of White Texans and four times the rate of Latino Texans. This is an inequitable and unacceptable health disparity for our entire state.
Preventable differences in health outcomes – which are closely linked to income, zip code, and race – are driving up health care costs and reducing work productivity across Texas, and the state’s economy is suffering more than $7 billion in annual losses because of it. For the first time, researchers estimate the local impact and county-level cost estimates of health disparities across the state.
The event organized by EHF’s Congregational Engagement team helped churches and organizations learn about the foundation’s new priorities for change and how to focus efforts to have the greatest impact on their communities’ health.
Learn more about how your organization can join the program designed to support nonprofits with smaller budgets that historically may not have been able to access support to strengthen operational work.
EHF wraps up the latest cohort of the Collaborating for Healthy Communities Initiative.
EHF’s Dr. Ann Barnes says by going beyond the doctor’s office to impact the non-medical factors that impact health, EHF aims to address preventable health differences that are too often prevalent in Black communities.
Philanthropic partners announce continued commitment to advance community health through the Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative.
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