December 2022 Meaningful Improvements to Build Healthy Communities A review of the Foundation’s Building Healthy Communities program area shows it led to more than 100 healthy food access points; fostered improvements, including street lights and bike lanes, to promote safe and accessible physical activity in more than 80 public spaces; and leveraged $181 million in … Read more
January 2021 Prioritizing Healthy Food The Foundation launches the new Healthy Food, Healthy Lives program, an evolution of the food-related focus of the Building Healthy Communities program, which winds down at the end of 2021. Read more Building Healthy Communities Healthy Food, Healthy Lives
October 2020 Tracking Food Insufficiency and Mental Health during the Pandemic NYHealth releases the first analysis of Census Pulse survey data on food insufficiency among New Yorkers during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foundation continues to track these findings and issue periodic updates through 2025. NYHealth also issues regular reports of Pulse … Read more
May 2016 Advocating for School Meals in New York City NYHealth supports a wide-ranging campaign to secure universal school lunch for all New York City schoolchildren. One year later, in June 2017, the New York City budget vastly expands and funds free lunch for nearly all of the City’s 1.1 million students, a huge victory … Read more
October 2015 Investing in Double Up Food Bucks The Foundation makes its first grant to support Field & Fork Network’s efforts to scale and sustain Double Up Food Bucks, a nutrition incentive program that offers recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) a matching value on dollars spent at farmers markets on fresh, locally … Read more
February 2015 Investing in Healthy Neighborhoods Across New York State Building on its diabetes prevention work, NYHealth launches its $2 million Healthy Neighborhoods Fund, the signature initiative of the Building Healthy Communities program. Launch events in New York City, Clinton County, Syracuse, and Niagara highlight plans for community-led efforts to improve access to healthy, affordable … Read more
