Grantmaking

Over the past 12 years, CHF has provided approximately $18 million in grants to over 70 community-based groups working throughout the DC metropolitan area to improve health and access to health care for low-income residents.

CHF currently focuses its grantmaking in two goal areas:

  • Assuring equitable access to quality health care
  • Addressing the social determinants of health equity - the social and economic conditions that shape the health of a community

In the spring of 2009, we issued a new Request for Proposals targeting Advocacy for Health Care Access and Health Justice. Through this initiative, we are funding organizations that use advocacy strategies to create positive social change in these two areas. Consumer advocacy and empowerment will continue to be an overarching priority in all of our work.

In addition to this open solicitation, CHF will continue to make unsolicited grants in the following areas:

  • Supporting existing primary care coalitions across the region as well as the Regional Primary Care Coalition (RPCC). The RPCC is a group of funders and primary care coalition leaders working together to support regional systems of quality, affordable health care for low-income residents of the Washington Metropolitan region.   
  • Advancing our Speakout Recommendations, including:
    • The Ngozi Project, an initiative that is focused on connecting consumers to existing resources and services and empowering them to demand high quality care and to take control of their health.
    • The Wellness Opportunity Zone, an innovative place-based approach to improving the health of a community. By designating a neighborhood a Wellness Opportunity Zone, community members and policymakers can work together to make the connections between health and other social and economic factors that determine health. These include access to good schools, jobs that pay a living wage, healthy foods and safe places to exercise, affordable housing and reliable public transportation.