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Local Innovation, National Learning

Communities across the country are developing innovative solutions to improve food, nutrition, and health equity. The Hunger to Health Collaboratory (H2HC) helps those ideas reach a wider audience. By investing in promising innovations, convening cross-sector leaders, and sharing what works, we help community-led solutions gain the visibility, partnerships, and momentum needed to create lasting change. Together, we’re building a national network that turns local success into learning, inspiration, and action. 

Investing in Innovation

Through the H2HC Prizes for Innovation and strategic grantmaking, H2HC identifies and invests in creative models that address food, nutrition, and health equity in new and effective ways. Beyond funding, we provide national recognition and opportunities for innovators to connect with peers, funders, and partners who can help expand their impact.

Great ideas deserve the opportunity to grow

$1M

committed in Prizes for Innovation highlighting promising, upstream approaches to food and nutrition challenges that significantly advance health equity 

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Prizes for Innovation winners and grantees advancing food, nutrition, and health equity across the U.S. 

$1M

granted (2018-2021) to support innovative, community-based models and critical research 

Convening Leaders

H2HC brings together nonprofit innovators, funders, policymakers, researchers, and business and healthcare leaders to explore promising approaches and build partnerships that advance health equity. Through our annual Summit, learning community, and webinars, we create space for collaboration, shared learning, and collective action.

Solutions are stronger when people learn together

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cross-sector leaders connected through H2HC’s learning community and national convenings.

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states and U.S territories represented by H2HC Prizes for Innovation and the collaborative Food Justice for Kids Prize applicants 

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convenings to explore innovative solutions to food, nutrition, and health equity challenges 

Strategic Convenings

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Amplifying What Works

H2HC elevates proven models through publications, storytelling, and our growing Directory of Innovation while continuing to share the foundational research that has informed the field. By connecting leaders with evidence, practical insights, and community success stories, we help leaders across sectors discover ideas they can adapt and apply in their own communities.

H2HC Publications

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Directory of Innovation 

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Supported Research

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Stories of Impact

Whether supporting groundbreaking research, helping Prize winners expand their reach, or fostering new partnerships through our convenings, H2HC is committed to helping promising ideas achieve lasting impact. 

We would have been unlikely to conduct a survey of this magnitude and rigor without funding from H2HC.

Thanks to their support, we were able to gain a deeper picture of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity and food access statewide.

Katie Martin, Former Executive Director, Institute for Hunger Research & Solutions, Connecticut Foodshare

Support from the H2HC Prize for Innovation has helped us continue to expand our network of orchards and food forests nationally, launching new programs in Nashville and Raleigh, while expanding a program in Memphis to include new neighborhood partners.

Connecting with the H2HC community has helped us identify potential new partners and opportunities for collaboration with mission-aligned organizations.

Erica Kratofil, Co-Executive Director, The Giving Grove