Convergence Partnership

The Northwest Health Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new grant program designed to improve healthy eating and active living in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods in Multnomah County. 

Grants will be awarded to collaborative efforts to improve built environments and access to healthy foods.

The Convergence Partnership Fund is a collaborative effort that is funded by the national Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) Convergence Partnership along with local matching funding from Kaiser Permanente Northwest, CareOregon, the Oregon Community Foundation, United Way of the Columbia-Willamette, Northwest Health Foundation and Meyer Memorial Trust

The Convergence Partnership Fund at the Northwest Health Foundation seeks to support community-driven initiatives to shape the public policies that affect opportunities for health within communities that have been most affected by these disparities.  Consistent with the terms of our grant from the national HEAL Convergence Partnership, we invite proposals that employ policy and environmental change strategies to improve built environments and access to healthy foods. 

The fund strives to achieve the vision of healthy people in healthy places, by contributing to the development of a better resourced, more effective, and better networked cohort of advocacy organizations representing communities of color.