Press Release: 2019-07-17

Statewide community health fund to host funding information webinars

Health Resources in Action is collaborating with the Department of Public Health to create a Statewide Community Health Initiative Fund, which will provide resources to Massachusetts multi-sector partnerships, community-based organizations, or municipalities that are looking to advance health equity.

The CHI Fund will primarily provide resources for policy, systems and environmental change approaches to promoting health equity, as well as healthy aging initiatives.

Health Resources in Action, a public health institute headquartered in Boston, is hosting three webinars to address funding eligibility, the application process, the CHI Fund’s vision, and the first funding cycle timeline.

The policy, systems, and environmental change funding webinar will be on Aug. 13, 2-3 p.m. To register, visit http://bit.ly/policy-chi.

The healthy aging funding webinar will be on Aug. 14, 11 a.m.-noon. To register, visit http://bit.ly/healthy-aging-chi.

The community health improvement planning processes funding webinar will be on Aug. 15, noon-1 p.m. To register, visit http://bit.ly/chip-chi.

For more information, visit https://hria.org/projects/massachusetts-chi-funds.