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This is why we focus our health equity grantmaking in two priority areas:
Good health is about more than medical care. Health equity means removing economic and social barriers that prevent people from experiencing optimal health, such as poverty, lack of transportation and education opportunities and environmental factors. We look for innovative initiatives that:
Healthy moms, healthy birthing people and healthy babies should be the starting point for a healthy society. Yet in the U.S., racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality and morbidity persist across all socioeconomic statuses – especially for Black and Indigenous families.Our grantmaking promotes peak health for birthing parents and our youngest children, prenatal through infancy. We look for initiatives that:
Approaches vary by location according to the expressed needs of our communities.
The Haiti Peer-Learning Network (HPLN) is a dynamic forum that fosters collaboration, innovation and systems change to improve the lives of Haitian children and families. It brings together more than 200 grantees, funding partners and diverse local and international stakeholders in public, private and nonprofit sectors to align efforts with local realities, priorities and opportunities.
Through intelligent study, cooperative planning and group action, the HPLN leverages the collective expertise and resources of its members to drive change across education, family economic security, food systems, health and leadership.
Since 2013, the HPLN has spurred the development and growth of transformative initiatives such as the Model School Network, the Haiti Food System Alliance, Kolektif Arcadins and strengthened regional health systems in southern and central Haiti.
Our grantee partner, AtentaMente, developed a comprehensive socio-emotional learning (SEL) program for preschool and primary school, adapted for Maya children and educators. Leveraging their experience working with educational authorities and in policymaking, the organization is making SEL programming available to children throughout the Yucatán Peninsula.
AtentaMente reaches:
3
States in the Yucatán Peninsula
395
Preschools
450
Primary Schools
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Welcome to our micro-regions of southern Mexico – dynamic Indigenous communities from the lowlands of the Yucatán Peninsula to the misty highlands of Chiapas, from tropical to cloud forests, cenotes to rivers, plains to mountains, diversified systems like milpa and backyard vegetable gardens to apiaries and coffee plantations, from Yucatec Maya to Tsotsil and Tseltal people.
The inner Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas Highlands represent great cultural and biological diversity but also share important traits…
Communities are reclaiming history long held by colonists, telling their own stories and writing their own futures, planting the seeds of progress in their ancestors’ earth, growing strong organizations, leadership and partnerships, and beginning to reap the rewards: thriving food systems, health systems, education models and income generation opportunities.
Nurtured more every day, the children are rising to lead and harvest a brighter future.