Our Impact
H2HC has convened a variety of strategic conversations and events, both in person and virtual, with hundreds of cross-sector leaders representing healthcare, academia, the private sector, government and social services, philanthropy, and public health.
Strategic Convenings
- Power of Collaboration (2018)
- Mobilizing Healthcare for a Hunger-Free Massachusetts (2019)
- Hunger to Health Summit: Acting Together to Address Food Insecurity (2019)
- Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Social Sector (2020)
- Mobilizing Healthcare Grantee Forum (2020)
- Addressing Community Inequalities During COVID-19 Recovery Townhall (2020)
- Hunger to Health in COVID and Beyond: Food Policy as Health Policy (2020)
- The Economic and Health Impacts of Food Insecurity: The Business Community as Changemaker (2021)
- H2HC Fall Summit: The Way Forward (2022)
- SDOH: National Context and State-Based Models of Innovation (2023)
- H2HC Fall Summit: Cross-Sector Approaches to Health Equity (2023)
H2HC highlights innovative work through its annual Prizes for Innovation. H2HC has also supported ground-breaking hunger and health research that led to both state and national policy recommendations.
$1M
committed in Prizes for Innovation highlighting promising, upstream approaches to food and nutrition challenges that significantly advance health equity
$1.2M
in grantmaking from 2018-2021 to support innovative, community-based models and critical food and health research
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grantees in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
Surveys and research H2HC has supported:
Through convenings and outreach, H2HC promotes awareness and understanding of food and nutrition challenges as priority public health issues. H2HC informs a wide array of national stakeholders through events, digital media, and participation in collaborations and learning communities.
External Partnerships
H2HC has joined several regional and national networks to further our collective work towards food, nutrition, and health equity.
- Federal Nutrition Advisory Coalition (FNAC)
- The New England Council, Healthcare Committee and Health Equity Subcommittee
- The Root Cause Coalition
- Tufts Food and Nutrition Innovation Council