Starting next month, Iowa City will begin looking at affordable housing through a new lens: health care.
Selected as one of 50 cities nationwide by the Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Iowa City has convened a five-member team as part of the Invest Health program. The program is aimed at helping leaders from mid-sized cities improve the health of low-income communities.
The City of Roanoke has been selected by Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to take part in the new Invest Health initiative. Invest Health is aimed at transforming how leaders from mid-size American cities work together to help low-income communities thrive, with specific attention to community features that drive health such as access to safe and affordable housing, places to play and exercise, and quality jobs.
A team of government and private sector organizations will receive a $60,000 grant and training in how to work across service sectors to improve the health of people in Roanoke’s northwest quadrant.
A $60,000 grant awarded Tuesday will be used to help people in Tuscaloosa’s low-income areas.
Invest Health, an initiative of the Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, announced a total of $3 million in grants awarded to 50 mid-size cities. There were more than 180 applicants for the grants.
Roanoke is one of 50 cities, joining a new national effort to improve health in low-income neighborhoods. A local team will focus on building better access to healthy food, physical activity and public transportation.
The city of Youngstown is the recipient of a $60,000 grant to help it take part in a new initiative to improve the health of people living in low-income neighborhoods.
Youngstown is one of 50 cities chosen as part of the new “Invest Health” initiative to improve the health outcomes of people living in mid-sized cities.
Bloomington is among 50 cities nationwide selected by the Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to receive a $60,000 grant as part of the new Invest Health program.
Invest Health’s goal is to transform how leaders in mid-size American cities work together to help low-income neighborhoods thrive, with specific attention to community features that drive health such as access to safe and affordable housing, places to play and exercise, and quality jobs.
Roanoke is taking part in a new health program.
The city has been chosen by the Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to participate in the Invest Health initiative.
Cone Health, the City of Greensboro, East Market Street Development Corporation, Greensboro Housing Coalition and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) recently teamed to nominate Greensboro for Invest Health, an innovative national program to improve health in low-income neighborhoods. Invest Health is a collaboration of the Reinvestment Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at transforming how leaders from midsize American cities work together to help low-income communities thrive, with specific attention to community features that drive health, such as access to safe and affordable housing.
The Greensboro team’s proposal was one of 50 selected from 180 proposals representing 170 cities across the United States. As part of Invest Health, the team will receive a $60,000 grant, participate in a series of national conferences, and develop strategies to address the city’s pediatric asthma rate, which includes a disproportionate number of children from low-income families. More than 29 percent of children in Greensboro live in households with incomes below the poverty level, and a majority of those homes are not safe for children with asthma.