To advance our mission of improving children's health, Mid-Iowa Health Foundation offers this website as a place to learn together. Here we offer ideas, gathered locally and nationally, on issues impacting children and youth and how we we do our work. We invite you to explore different topic areas and hope you leave inspired to try new strategies and to build new partnerships.
Search articles, research, websites, and case studies we’ve compiled on issues and approaches related to children’s health.
We value taking time to reflect on what we learn from initiatives and to share insights with our community. Below are reports Mid-Iowa Health Foundation has developed or supported.
This report features nearly $1 million in investments the Disaster Recovery Fund made over the 18 months to support nonprofits’ work during the pandemic.
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This report shares outcomes and lessons learned from the HealthConnect Fellowship initiative from October 2019-June 2021
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This report shares how Mid-Iowa Health Foundation created the HealthConnect fellowship, lessons learned in the process, and stories about each fellow's journey in advocating for system changes.
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This report shares how The ACE Study transformed Mid-Iowa Health Foundation's and its partners' work and the changes created in central Iowa organizations and systems over a decade to respond to the study's findings.
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By listening to our community, we can better understand the unique challenges families face and reimagine how we foster the healthy development of our kids. The HealthConnect Blog is a platform for many voices to be a part of the solutions we create.
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As we learn with our community, Mid-Iowa Health Foundation is challenged to reflect on our role in transforming how our community supports children and families. We offer some articles that are inspiring our current practices as a funder.
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