Policy Support

$48,000 for the Minnesota Compass project

$20,000 for development and publishing of a report on health disparities in the Twin Cities

$25,000 for upstream health policy review and development as well as strategy evaluation

$25,000 for a partnership with Rainbow Research to evaluate the Growing Up Healthy initiatve, and to organize, facilitate and report on the input of a formal Advisory Committee.

$3,500 in planning support for the "Just Health: Building a Movement for Our Health" workshop

$60,000 in continued support of the Healthy Legacy Campaign to protect children from environmental hazards and toxic chemicals.

$11,000 in support to transform the Minnesota Family Assistance model into a web-based household planning and policy analysis tool.

$19,300 for investigation into the conversion of the Minnesota Family Assistance Model to an online planning and policy analysis tool.

$150,000 in second year funding for home-based parent-mentoring to improve learning readiness from the prenatal phase through age three.

$25,000 in support of the St. Paul Early Childhood Scholarship program

$25,000 for production of stories, a live event and online content to raise public awareness and understanding of the link between health and social, economic and environmental conditions.

$25,000 in support of production of stories, a live event and online content to raise public awareness and understanding of the link between health and social, economic and environmental conditions.

$10,000 to plan a Community Health Worker Institute to house the CHW Project, a statewide initiative to reduce cultural and linguistic barriers to health care, improve quality and cost effectiveness of care, and increase the number of health care workers who come from diverse backgrounds

$10,000 in support of a green healthy housing charrette in Mankato, MN

$17,000 in health-related programming, including underwriting promotion of the series, Unnatural Causes