Publications
Advancing Community Health Worker Practice and Utilization: The Focus on Financing (pdf)
Research commissioned by the Blue Cross Foundation on national models for financing the work of community health workers, prepared by the Center for the Health Professions, University of Califormia San Francisco, 2006

Creating Healthy Communities: Celebrating 20 Years of Grantmaking, Partnership and Learning (pdf)
20-year retrospective and annual report
Expanding Immigrant and Refugee Funding in Minnesota
August 2007 report from Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

Fact Sheet (pdf)
Learn about the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation
Funding Community Health Worker Programs and Services in Minnesota: Looking to the Future (pdf)
Supplement to the 2006 national report highlighting community health worker financing issues in Minnesota, commissioned by the Blue Cross Foundation and prepared by the Center for the Health Professions, University of California San Francisco
Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities (pdf)
Provides an overview of the foundation's grantmaking initiative that focuses on the healthy growth and development of children from ages birth to five years and their families
Growing Up Healthy in Minnesota (pdf)
Summary report on the Blue Cross Foundation initiative that increased children's access to and use of preventive care, March 2005, prepared by Wilder Research Center
Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans (pdf)
Provides an overview of grantmaking initiative that focuses on Minnesota's immigrants and refugees
Moving Upstream: Working Together to Create Healthier Communities (pdf)
Proceedings from November 2006 policy forum on social determinants of health

Shared Values DVD Discussion Guide (Spanish)
Download this Spanish language discussion guide to use in your screenings of the Shared Values DVD.

Shared Values DVD Discussion Guide (Somali)
Download this Somali language discussion guide to use in your screenings of the Shared Values DVD.

Shared Values DVD Discussion Guide (Hmong)
Download this Hmong language discussion guide to use in your screenings of the Shared Values DVD.








