What We Fund
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.
Priority Areas
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.
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Primary Care
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.
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Veterans’ Health
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.
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Special Projects Fund
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.
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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.
