GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: New York Times

Three Massachusetts health centers are participating in a pilot program with local farmers’ markets to alleviate obesity in children and low-income families by increasing their consumption of fruits and vegetables. Doctors in participating health centers will give coupons of $1 a day for each member of a family of four in 50 families and will track their progress. To read the article click here.

Featuring the Codman Square Health Center, a grantee of Clipper Ship Foundation, Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, Anna B. Stearns Foundation, Lalor Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Newsweek

The Family Van is an affiliate of Harvard Medical School that provides medical services to Boston’s underserved population from a mobile clinic. Approximately 50,000 Boston residents utilize the van each year for health education, screenings, preventive services and referrals to medical and social service agencies. National weekly news magazine Newsweek explains how this innovative model could provide effective solutions for some of the problems facing American health care.

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Featuring The Family Van, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: New Haven Register

The New Haven Register reports that four foundations pledged a total of $615,000 to underwrite the costs to implement the SustiNet health plan, Connecticut’s public insurance option. SustiNet was adopted in 2009 by the Connecticut legislature, which also overrode a veto by Governor M. Jodi Rell, but funds for the program’s implementation were never allocated.

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Featuring work by the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, with support from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust.