Quality Improvement Collaboratives: A Qualitative Study
A Quality Improvement Collaborative is a short-term learning program that brings together teams from multiple sites across a region to seek improvement in a focused topic area. The goal is…
CHOMPERS! Portable Dental Care Initiative: Lessons Learned from Program Implementation
In 2010, we commissioned Harder+Company Community Research to evaluate CHOMPERS! Bringing Dental Care to Kids, a multi-year initiative designed to improve dental health among children living in poverty. The Portable…
Maternal and Child Health Initiative Evaluation 2011-2014
The R/E/D Group examined our three interrelated strategies for improving maternal and child health in central New York: expanding midwifery, maternal and child health systems improvement and coordinating services coordination…
Positive Emotional Development and Learning Skills Initiative: Summary
In partnership with The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation, we commissioned Harder + Company Community Research to evaluate the PEDALS: Positive Emotional Development and Learning Skills, a multi-year initiative…
CHOMPERS! and Children’s Oral Health
CHOMPERS! Bringing Dental Care to Kids: Findings from the Cavity Free Kids Program
In 2010, we commissioned Harder+Company Community Research to evaluate CHOMPERS! Bringing Dental Care to Kids, a multi-year initiative designed to improve dental health among children living in poverty. Cavity Free…
2015 Stakeholder Assessment Report
In 2015, we commissioned The Center for Effective Philanthropy to conduct an Assessment Report of our stakeholders.The STAR provides comprehensive analysis and comparative data that helps us understand how our…
2010 Stakeholder Assessment Report
In 2010, we commissioned The Center for Effective Philanthropy to conduct a survey to gather the perspectives and experiences of individual stakeholders who we seek to influence as part of…
Health Foundation for Western and Central New York: Our First 10 Years
To celebrate our 10-year anniversary, we took a look back at where we have been as a Foundation, what we have accomplished together with the people and communities we serve...
Pediatric Asthma Action Plan
Throughout New York State, hundreds of thousands of children suffer from asthma, a chronic condition particularly common among children in poverty. When we began investigating how we could help address…