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- Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky Reports Putting 24 Percent More Money Into Grants Last Year Than In 2012
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky made grants totaling $2,355,838 in 2013, a 24 percent increase over the 2012 total of $1,903,660, according to the annual report it released yesterday. Last year was the first in which the foundation made grants for...
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- Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky Awarded Nearly $3 Million In Grants In 2010
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- Foundation Matches Social Innovation Fund Money To Create Grants For Improving Health Services In Seven Kentucky Counties
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky reports its 2013 grants
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky invested just over $2 million in 2013 on programs, research and initiatives designed to inform and promote better health policy in Kentucky, it said in a news release Tuesday. It said the grants went to community-based organizations, healthcare providers, universities and health-advocacy groups across the state.
?Foundation funding provides resources to organizations that are working to make Kentucky a healthier place to live, work and play,? said Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the foundation. ?Current initiatives build on our first decade of work, to address the unmet health care needs of Kentuckians through investment at the local and state levels.?
This is the first year the foundation made grants under its 2012-2017 strategic plan, which includes an Investing in Kentucky?s Future initiative to provide training, technical assistance and direct grants to seven Kentucky communities. The foundation has made a five-year, $3 million commitment to support the communities' efforts to develop and implement strategies to help school-age children grow up healthier than their parents.
Another initiative, Promoting Responsive Health Policy, "couples targeted research and polling with investment in effective statewide health-policy advocacy groups, in an effort to make health policy . . . more responsive to Kentuckians? identified needs," the release said. This includes a multi-year study of the state?s transition to managed-care Medicaid, the Kentucky Health Issues Poll, and support for Kentucky Voices for Health, the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, Kentucky Youth Advocates and the foundation?s local health data website, www.kentuckyhealthfacts.org.
The foundation's Kentucky Healthy Futures initiative provided matching funds to leverage local resources and attract funds to Kentucky from federal and private sources. Foundation funds matched money from the federal Social Innovation Fund to help improve the health of medically under-served areas in 52 of the state's 120 counties, through nurse-managed clinics, telemedicine, mobile health services, care navigation and a Meade County activities center. Several groups, including Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, the Kentucky Public Health Association, the Kentucky Teen Institute and the Todd County Health Department (for the Western Kentucky Public Health Forum), received money to support conferences, seminars, and symposiums aligned with the foundation?s mission, to meet the unmet health-care needs of Kentuckians.
The foundation's grants for communications included $20,000 to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, primarily for Kentucky Health News, and $100,000 to KET for health programming. A full list of grants by the foundation in 2013 is available at www.uky.edu/comminfostudies/irjci/FFHKgrantmaking2013.pdf.
The foundation was created in 2001 from the charitable assets of Anthem Inc., recovered in a lawsuit by then-Attorney General Ben Chandler after the company converted from a mutual insurance firm to a stock company. Under a settlement, the $45 million was invested and only the earnings from it may be spent.
?Foundation funding provides resources to organizations that are working to make Kentucky a healthier place to live, work and play,? said Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the foundation. ?Current initiatives build on our first decade of work, to address the unmet health care needs of Kentuckians through investment at the local and state levels.?
This is the first year the foundation made grants under its 2012-2017 strategic plan, which includes an Investing in Kentucky?s Future initiative to provide training, technical assistance and direct grants to seven Kentucky communities. The foundation has made a five-year, $3 million commitment to support the communities' efforts to develop and implement strategies to help school-age children grow up healthier than their parents.
Another initiative, Promoting Responsive Health Policy, "couples targeted research and polling with investment in effective statewide health-policy advocacy groups, in an effort to make health policy . . . more responsive to Kentuckians? identified needs," the release said. This includes a multi-year study of the state?s transition to managed-care Medicaid, the Kentucky Health Issues Poll, and support for Kentucky Voices for Health, the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, Kentucky Youth Advocates and the foundation?s local health data website, www.kentuckyhealthfacts.org.
The foundation's Kentucky Healthy Futures initiative provided matching funds to leverage local resources and attract funds to Kentucky from federal and private sources. Foundation funds matched money from the federal Social Innovation Fund to help improve the health of medically under-served areas in 52 of the state's 120 counties, through nurse-managed clinics, telemedicine, mobile health services, care navigation and a Meade County activities center. Several groups, including Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, the Kentucky Public Health Association, the Kentucky Teen Institute and the Todd County Health Department (for the Western Kentucky Public Health Forum), received money to support conferences, seminars, and symposiums aligned with the foundation?s mission, to meet the unmet health-care needs of Kentuckians.
The foundation's grants for communications included $20,000 to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, primarily for Kentucky Health News, and $100,000 to KET for health programming. A full list of grants by the foundation in 2013 is available at www.uky.edu/comminfostudies/irjci/FFHKgrantmaking2013.pdf.
The foundation was created in 2001 from the charitable assets of Anthem Inc., recovered in a lawsuit by then-Attorney General Ben Chandler after the company converted from a mutual insurance firm to a stock company. Under a settlement, the $45 million was invested and only the earnings from it may be spent.
- Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky Reports Putting 24 Percent More Money Into Grants Last Year Than In 2012
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky made grants totaling $2,355,838 in 2013, a 24 percent increase over the 2012 total of $1,903,660, according to the annual report it released yesterday. Last year was the first in which the foundation made grants for...
- Almost $675,000 Awarded To Five Facilities To Improve Health Services, Reduce Disparities
Grants totaling nearly $675,000 will go from the Social Innovation Fund through the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to help five Kentucky facilities improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities and prompt health equality in...
- Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky Receives $1 Million Grant In Addition To $2 Million Already Being Used For Matching Grants
A federal agency has given the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky $1 million, on top of an earlier $2 million, to make matching grants aimed at addressing the state's health challenges. The money comes from the Corporation for National and Community...
- Foundation For A Healthy Kentucky Awarded Nearly $3 Million In Grants In 2010
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky awarded nearly $3 million to community organizations, schools, government agencies and institutions in 2010. The funds, awarded in 80 grants, will support programs and policy development for health improvement and...
- Foundation Matches Social Innovation Fund Money To Create Grants For Improving Health Services In Seven Kentucky Counties
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky today announced four equal Social Innovation Fund grants totaling $1 million to improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities, and promote health equity in Jefferson, McCreary, Wolfe,...