Champions for Change: A Collective Commitment to Children&#x27;s Health

12/6/23

How Community Health Workers Can Improve Heart Health

11/27/23

How Medical-Legal Partnerships Can Link Systems to Improve Health Outcomes

9/18/23

Creating a Culture of Sustainability in Helping Professions

9/8/23

Meet Dr. Daniel Zinnel, Incoming Mid-Iowa Health Foundation Board Member

Foundation news

8/2/23

Using Data for Systems-Level Advocacy

7/28/23

7 Benefits of a Statewide System Approach to Community Health Work

7/27/23

Health Equity Work in Action: What Funders Should Know

4/5/23

Basic Income: 4 Things to Know

Partnerships

4/4/23

Prioritizing Advocacy: How a Nonprofit Created a Full-Time Role

2/1/23

Meet the team leading UpLift – The Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot

12/8/22

HealthConnect Fellows: Engaging authentically in systems change

12/7/22

7 insights gained through a nonprofit merger

11/17/22

How empathy is a part of systems-change work

9/2/22

Health disparities for Black pregnant Iowans: What you should know

5/26/22

5 reasons why youth should lead systems-change work

5/5/22

What we mean by 'system change'

4/6/22

4 insights from researching housing instability in central Iowa

3/3/22

Iowa youth aging out of foster care: How are they doing?

2/3/22

7 lessons learned from Sesame Street partnership

1/31/22

A closer look at mental health in schools during the pandemic

11/29/21

Get to Know Dr. Nalo Johnson

Foundation news

11/24/21

4 questions for nonprofit and community leaders

11/8/21

5 questions for leaders in philanthropy

11/5/21

7 lessons learned about systems change work

9/9/21

System-change achievements advocates are making for central Iowa’s kids

2/1/21

Disconnection matters

11/24/20

What you should know about homelessness in central Iowa during the pandemic

10/26/20

Leading system change, even in times of uncertainty

7/22/20

We must all do our part to be anti-racist

7/14/20

Lessons in preventing burnout

7/13/20

5 barriers pregnant women in poverty face in getting the care they need

7/1/20

What I've learned about system-change work during this time of crisis

6/11/20

What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about system change

5/10/20

We have the resources to build a better food system here in Iowa

5/8/20

11 best practices for working from home during COVID-19

Leadership

4/8/20

5 lessons learned in building the village of support for early-grade reading

2/10/20

How we can increase everyone's access to quality foods

1/30/20

The best professional advice I have ever received

12/9/19

Exploring a new use for the Count the Kicks app through fellow connections

12/2/19

We all can do better for Iowa’s children and families

11/27/19

A fellow's perspective: Getting to do the work we should be doing

11/25/19

One voice for a children’s mental health system

11/15/19

Cultivating Change: How the HealthConnect Fellowship lifted a network of advocates to improve children's health

11/15/19

Persistence for quality health care

11/14/19

Housing code for healthier lives

11/7/19

Transforming practices to prevent trauma before birth

10/31/19

Six insights from listening to health advocates' stories

10/28/19

Medicaid makes a difference

7/31/19

If we're going to reduce trauma and family stress, we have to start at the very beginning

7/31/19

Decolonizing every table

7/31/19

What does opportunity look like for Iowa children (and are we doing the right things help them thrive)?

11/29/18

Compassion architects activate and spread compassion

Leadership

10/4/18

The power of positive stressors

7/12/18

Housing policy is health policy (and education policy, and economic policy...)

3/29/18

Long-haul Advocacy: Adopting a long-term, sustained advocacy approach to effective child health systems change

3/29/18

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation announces new strategic initiative

Foundation news

10/23/17

Taking a new approach - A MIHF board member's perspective

10/23/17

The teachers will learn and the students will teach

Partnerships

10/23/17

I have a dream... and an action plan

10/23/17

Decision-makers arent' acting as we'd like: Three reasons

10/23/17

When you have that "aha" moment, there's no going back

10/23/17

Other Issues & Ideas

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Report

The Economic Realities of Communities of Color in Iowa

Report

Economic Burden of Health Inequities in the U.S.

Report

2023 County Health Rankings National Findings Report

Article

Graphic on Equality vs. Equity

Article

Q&A: REED partners share the power in holding space for rest, healing, collective learning

Guide

The Better Arguments Project

Basic Income Projects Improve Well-Being

Report

2021 Community Health Needs Assessment

White Paper

The Link Between Stillbirth & Maternal Mortality and Morbidity: Firsthand Accounts from American Women

Website

Communicating about Health Equity

White Paper

Strengths of Latinx Immigrants Despite Legal Violence

Article

Why building community power is vital for philanthropy

Report

Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health

Report

A Caring, Connected Community: How Greater Des Moines nonprofits met our needs during the pandemic

Report

The Intersection of Racial Injustice and Youth Health in Central Iowa

Report

Why aren't kids a policy priority?

Article

Study: Impact of neighborhood disadvantage on a child’s brain

Website

The United States Prosperity Index 2021

Website

Make It Okay messaging in multiple languages

Report

Harkin on Wellness Report 2021

Article

8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits

Article

Building a Trust-Based Philanthropy to Shift Power Back to Communities

Guide

Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap

Website

The Harwood Institute

Website

Frameworks Institute: Changing the conversation on social issues

Website

Framing best practices with Topos Partnership

Report

Systems Change & Deep Equity

Website

Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

Grassroots

Website

Iowa Public Health Association

Report

Cultivating Change: How the HealthConnect Fellowship lifted a network of advocates to improve children's health in central Iowa

Report

Shifting the Lens: How The ACE Study sparked action to collectively improve our community's health

Website

National Academy of Medicine

Website

Grant Makers in Health

Guide

Results-Based Accountability Implementation Guide

Website

Healthy People 2030

Website

ACEs Connection

Grassroots

White Paper

Understanding the Upstream Social Determinants of Health

Report

Addressing Patients' Social Needs: An Emerging Business Case for Provider Investment

Report

Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy

Website

Centers for Disease Control

White Paper

Prenatal Strategies to Support Families

Report

United Way Community Impact Report

Partnerships

Report

1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative 2020 Report

Report

2020 One Economy: The Blueprint for Action

Report

Human Trafficking Awareness for Youth

Report

Mental and Sexual Health Education for Youth

Report

Teen Substance Use and Abuse

Policy Brief

Strengthening Medicaid

Website

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

Report

2020 Iowa ACEs Report

Report

Al Exito Mental Health Study

Website

CAMHI4Kids Children's Mental Health System

Policy Brief

Transforming Iowa's Foster Care System to Support Kinship Caregiving

Website

Community Catalyst System of Advocacy

Report

The Water of Systems Change