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)
H2HC has supported ground-breaking hunger and health research in Connecticut and Massachusetts that has led to both state and national policy recommendations.
$1.2M
in grantmaking fron 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 events, digital media, and participation in local, regional, and national networks, H2HC educates stakeholders and works toward long-term solutions to food, nutrition, and health inequities.
External Partnerships
H2HC has joined several regional and national networks to further our collective work towards food, nutrition, and health equity.
In 2022 H2HC…
- Was invited to join the National Task Force Informing the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Many of the Task Force recommendations were incorporated into the Biden-Harris Administration’s 2022 National Strategy.
Since the White House Conference, the group has continued its work as the Federal Nutrition Advisory Coalition (FNAC). - Joined the Advisory Board of the Root Cause Coalition, a national group of organizations resolved to reverse and end the systemic root causes of health inequities through cross-sector partnerships.
- Joined the Tufts Food and Nutrition Innovation Council, a cross-sector network organized by the Tufts Friedman School Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute, bringing together diverse stakeholders to rethink the global food system.