Consumer Health Foundation

Strategic communications is one of the tools the Foundation uses to advance its mission to improve community health. This includes producing publications that highlight the work of the Foundation and its nonprofit partners, as well as contributing to publications that highlight important shifts in the field of philanthropy and public health.

CHF Publications

Annual Reports provide a snapshot of the Foundation’s work over the course of a year.

Connections, our e-newsletter, provides an in-depth look at the impact the Foundation and our nonprofit partners are having in the local community.

Speaking Up and Speaking Out for Health:  A Community Call to Action to Improve Health and Health Care in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region is a report on the findings from the community “speak outs” we hosted in 2004-2005. This report continues to guide our work.

Featured Publications

Toward Transformative Change in Health Care: High Impact Strategies in Philanthropy

In April 2011, The National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy released a report making the case for health grantmakers to focus on underserved communities and to increase their investments in advocacy and policy, community organizing and system reform. CHF’s health justice work is featured on pages 28-29.

HIV/AIDS and Women of Color: Changing the Conversation

A December 2009 Grantmakers in Health “Views from the Field” article on how CHF is working to apply a social determinants of health equity lens to HIV/AIDS prevention for women of color.

Beyond Dollars: Investing in Big Change

In November 2009, the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers released this report on how philanthropy can be a catalyst for change. CHF and the work of nonprofit partners DC Primary Care Association and DC Hunger Solutions work to create lasting social change are featured in the report.

Catalytic Change:  Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment

In May 2009, the Applied Research Center and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity released its report Catalytic Change:  Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment.  This report shares lessons learned from piloting its Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment in which CHF participated in 2008.  The Assessment was created to help foundation staff and leaders understand the benefits of being explicit about racial equity, and to determine the degree to which their work is advancing racial justice.