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Point32Health Foundation works with communities to support, advocate and advance healthier lives for everyone.

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Access to Healthy Food in Connecticut

Addressing Health Inequities with Nutritious Food

Gather New Haven hasn’t let COVID-19 interfere with its mission of bettering health outcomes for Connecticut residents, implementing safe delivery/contact-less pickup and virtual nutrition education options for program participants. Photo courtesy of Gather New Haven.

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Healthy Aging in Massachusetts

Building Economic Security

The Massachusetts Senior Action Council celebrated a signature legislative victory this year: Governor Baker’s 2020 budget eases health care costs for 40,000 older people with low incomes. Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Senior Action Council.

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Access to Healthy Food in New Hampshire

Veggies From Heaven

Seacoast Eat Local, home of New Hampshire’s first (and Foundation-supported) mobile market —SAMM— has continued to provide healthy food to families in need but with a twist this season. Photo courtesy of Seacoast Eat Local.

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Participants in an intergenerational program in Central Falls.
Healthy Aging in Rhode Island

Bridging generation gaps

Isolation can take its toll on older people—even affecting our health. In Central Falls, R.I., an intergenerational program works to change all that. Photo courtesy of LISC.

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LGBT elders

Healthy Aging in Massachusetts

Responding to LGBT Elders

Older LGBT people face unique challenges. With our support, Jamaica Plain-based Ethos can do more to change that paradigm.

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Access to Healthy Food in Connecticut

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Garden Kits

At least that’s what the  executive director of Keney Park Sustainability Project did when COVID knocked out his volunteer program.
 

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latino elders

Healthy aging in New Hampshire

Reimagining Aging in the Granite State

A state-level commission will promote healthy aging in communities across New Hampshire. Three critical elements helped make it happen.

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COVID Vaccine Education in Maine

Racial Disparities Too Familiar to Native Communities

What Wabanaki Public Health did to be sure Indigenous communities in Maine had information to make informed decisions about getting vaccinated, and had access to COVID-19 vaccines. Photo courtesy of Wabanaki Public Health.
 

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Healthy Aging in Massachusetts

Creating a Culture of Inclusion

How did Springfield, Mass., become the first city in the nation to apply for and receive three age-friendly designations? Three words: Time. Tenacity. And collaboration. Photo courtesy of Live Well Springfield.
 

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Access to Healthy Food in Massachusetts

A Sense of Community and Food to Go

Residents of an affordable-housing community in Northampton, Mass., received boxes containing beautiful local fruits and veggies from the farms of Western Massachusetts plus household essentials to help them stay safe and stay healthy throughout the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Grow Food Northampton.
 

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Metal fence outside garden with a colorful block letter sign spelling out hope
Access to healthy Food in Massachusetts

Hope Community Garden – a Roxbury Treasure

Residents of “Madison Village”, a vibrant affordable-housing community in Roxbury, Mass., enjoy expanded healthy food, cooking and garden programs. Photo courtesy of Madison Park Development Corporation. 

 

 

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