Category Archive: Grantee Reports
By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: November 1st, 2011.
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Environmental Health •
Disparities •
Grantee Reports •
Public Health
The following is a report from Lisa Arkin, Executive Director, Oregon Toxics Alliance, about a small community engagement grant received in 2011:
Oregon Toxics Alliance, based in Eugene, is educating thousands of Oregonians by way of a film & ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: June 21st, 2011.
Categories:
Grantee Reports •
Public Health
Guest author: Shannon M Proctor-Hussey, Healthy Aging Coalition
A Summary of Healthy Aging Forums conducted in Spring 2011 in Corvallis, Albany, and Lebanon
The Healthy Aging Coalition conducted community forums to engage members of the city ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: February 23rd, 2011.
Categories:
Grantee Reports •
Public Health •
Rural Health
Guest Author: Matt Webber, Community Organizer, Archimedes Movement
The resounding statement heard from the group of individuals gathered at the Crook County Library in Prineville, Oregon on a Tuesday night was: “These kids need a pool. One ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: February 23rd, 2011.
Categories:
Grantee Reports •
Public Health •
Rural Health
Guest Author: Teri Watson, Yamhill County Health Department
Yamhill County Public Health, Commission on Children and Families, Yamhill Community Action Partnership, United Way of Mid Willamette Valley, and Cooperative Ministries received a ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: September 16th, 2010.
Categories:
Disparities •
Education •
Grantee Reports •
Policies & Laws •
Public Health
What can a CHP grant do for your community? Here’s another example: Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, recently hosted a public event focusing on a difficult subject for many: the role of racism and the lack of culturally-informed care on the ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: August 18th, 2010.
Categories:
Disparities •
Economic Issues •
Grantee Reports •
Public Health •
Rural Health
CHP grants are provided to communities that want to take action to improve health. If you want to host community meetings to brainstorm ideas and develop a plan for change, a CHP grant could help support flyers, publicity, and refreshments. In ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: March 24th, 2010.
Categories:
Disparities •
Economic Issues •
Education •
Grantee Reports •
Food & Nutrition
Latina Women in the United States have worse birth outcomes than their non-Latina counterparts.
Latina teens living in the United States get pregnant twice as often as the national average.
Second-generation Latina women have less healthy ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: March 24th, 2010.
Categories:
Disparities •
Economic Issues •
Grantee Reports •
Policies & Laws •
Food & Nutrition •
Public Health •
Rural Health •
Urban Issues
According to Elizabeth Fussell, Development Director, at the VOZ Workers Rights Education Project, “our community conversations went extremely well! We had a total of 87 day laborers participate, of which 40 attended all three of the films and ...
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By:
NWHF Staff
| Posted on: March 24th, 2010.
Categories:
Disparities •
Economic Issues •
Grantee Reports •
Policies & Laws •
Food & Nutrition •
Public Health •
Rural Health
Community Health Priorities has small grants available for people interested in taking the first steps to making their communities healthier for everyone.
What does this mean?
What does this entail?
What does this look like?
The answer is ...
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