New York City Community Health Grants is sponsored by New York State Health Foundation. Funding for community health projects in New York State, including NYC-based initiatives that improve mental health access, integration, and outcomes for underserved populations.

NYHealth is committed to supporting a range of projects that improve health at a regional or statewide level, particularly for people of color and others who have been historically marginalized. NYHealth concentrates most of our activities and grantmaking in a limited number of strategic priority areas. In each area, we have developed a set of specific goals and focused strategies to advance our efforts.

To have an impact in these areas, we make grants, convene key stakeholders, and commission and disseminate policy analyses that inform health care policy and practice throughout New York State. Healthy Food, Healthy Lives Food insecurity is widespread and serious across New York State.

To connect New Yorkers with the food they need to thrive, we focus on four strategies: (1) support healthy food systems planning and capacity-building; (2) maximize nutrition benefit programs; (3) support healthier, culturally responsive food in public institutions; and (4) promote Food Is Medicine interventions. Primary care improves individual and community health, enhances health equity, and lowers health care costs.

To expand, advance, and enhance primary care across New York State, we focus on three strategies: (1) expanding primary care access and capacity; (2) advancing racial health equity. ; and (3) strengthening the primary care workforce.

NYHealth seeks to underscore that the health care, mental health, and social services issues returning veterans and their families face are not solely military issues, but public and community health issues that should be addressed by local and national government agencies, community-based organizations, and health funders.

Grants through our Special Projects Fund allow us to support projects that address an important health care or public health issue in the State, but are outside of our targeted priority areas. Eligible projects are coordinated interventions that take place over a specified period of time to achieve quantifiable results.

NYHealth is committed to supporting a range of projects that improve health at a regional or statewide level, particularly for people of color and others who have been historically marginalized. As the health needs and opportunities in New York change over time, our work also evolves to ensure we can have as much impact as possible.

We often build upon our previous investments and use them to inform our current priority areas and grantmaking strategies. You can learn more about our earlier work to improve the health of New Yorkers from across the State.

Building Healthy Communities To help communities become healthier, more active places, the Foundation supported initiatives across the State to help more New Yorkers of all ages eat healthy foods, become physically active, and have access to a range of programs that encourage healthy life choices. Empowering Health Care Consumers New Yorkers find the health care system hard to understand and navigate.

To ensure that consumers have the tools, resources, and support they need, NYHealth focused on promoting information transparency and engaging patients as partners in health care decision-making. Expanding Health Care Coverage Many New Yorkers were projected to become newly insured once federal health reform provisions were fully phased in.

To advance the implementation of health reform, NYHealth supported a range of efforts to reach and educate consumers about their insurance options and how to enroll in and use their coverage.

Improving Diabetes Prevention and Management To reverse the diabetes epidemic in New York State, the Foundation supported efforts to improve the way primary care providers manage the care of people with diabetes and the spread of effective community-based prevention programs that reach people where they live, work, and worship.

Integrating Mental Health and Substance Use Services NYHealth committed $10 million over five years to improve the integration of care for people who cope with mental health and substance use conditions at the same time. This work culminated at the end of 2012, but the Foundation continues to learn from this key investment.