Change Happens Together: Advancing Health Equity with Our Nonprofit Partners
2024 Annual Report To Our Community Partners and Friends: No matter who you are, your life has been touched by a nonprofit organization. Nonprofits help older adults thrive at home…
Embracing Trauma-Informed Care: A Guide for Nonprofits and Funders
In recent years, nonprofit organizations have begun to understand the importance of providing services based on trauma-informed best practices. But bringing a trauma-informed lens to care delivery is difficult for…
How to Maximize Health Insurance Enrollment
With the goal of addressing barriers to insurance enrollment faced by uninsured New Yorkers across the state, the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) partnered with the Health Foundation…
Community Health Needs and Opportunities in Rural Central New York
Community Health Needs and Opportunities in Rural Central New York examines the health and social issues having an impact on people in four rural central New York (CNY) counties: Cayuga,…
Reframing the Big Picture: Annual Report 2023
When we first embarked on our vision of racial and socioeconomic health equity, we knew that it would require more than the standard philanthropic approach to change. The impact we…
Imagine Nonviolence
Firearm violence is a public health crisis. Gun injuries are now the leading cause of death for children and teens ages 1‑17, surpassing car crashes for the first time in…
Our Journey Toward Health Equity: A Report on Building Equitable Organizational Practices
What happens when you make an organizational commitment to health equity? How can an organization change the way they work, interact with the community, and communicate in order to support…
Twenty Years Toward Health Equity: An Oral History of the Health Foundation
On paper, the creation of the Health Foundation for Western & Central New York might look like a simple business transaction. In 2001, when health plans Univera and Excellus merged,…