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Health Foundation Awards Seven Grants Through Univera Healthcare’s 2026 Health Equity Innovation Awards

The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York has selected seven nonprofit organizations to receive grant awards for Univera Healthcare’s 2026 Health Equity Innovation Awards. Each year Univera Healthcare’s…

Health Leadership Fellows Cohort 13

Health Leadership Fellows Applications Now Accepted

Applications for Health Leadership Fellows Cohort 13 are now being accepted. The goal of the Health Leadership Fellows program is to develop and strengthen a diverse network of collaborative leaders with organizations and systems...

Announcing Our Age-Friendly: Go Local 3.0 Cohort for 2026-2027

We are pleased to present the newest members of our Age-Friendly: Go Local program. These 19 organizations, which make up the program’s third cohort, will focus on projects that advance…

How New York Can Help More Caregivers After the 2027 Medicaid Changes

The 2025 budget reconciliation package—also known as H.R.1 or the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—will force changes to the Medicaid program in less than a year. Beginning in January 2027,…

Derien Braxton and Karen Nicolson

Health Foundation Welcomes Braxton and Nicolson to Board of Trustees

BUFFALO AND SYRACUSE, NY – The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York has named Derien Braxton, MD, MPH, and Karen Nicolson, Esq., to its Board of Trustees. Along...