Imagining Better: Annual Report 2025
2025 was a year of serious challenges for our nonprofit partners. We have the opportunity in this moment not merely to fix current problems, but to create a better future...
The SEA Change Fund
Strengthening Every Angle Nonprofit community-based organizations have had to navigate enormous challenges over the past six years—everything from a devastating pandemic to drastic federal funding cuts. Nonprofits play a vital...
Age-Friendly: Go Local – A Report on the Grassroots Organizations Building the Age-Friendly Ecosystem in Western and Central New York
The Age-Friendly: Go Local grant program originated in 2022 from our commitment to nurture age-friendly, livable, and equitable communities that enhance the health and well-being of all residents. Our goal…
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…
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…
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,…
Equity in Communications Standards and Style Guide
View the resource The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York’s vision is a healthy central and western New York where racial and socioeconomic equity are prioritized so all...