United Way Community Impact Report

The 2020 United Way of Central Iowa Community Impact Report shares progress toward goals in Education, Income, Health, and Essential Needs and key activities working to improve the lives of central Iowans.

How Community Health Workers Can Improve Heart Health

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

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

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Using Data for Systems-Level Advocacy

Advocacy
7/28/23
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7 Benefits of a Statewide System Approach to Community Health Work

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Basic Income: 4 Things to Know

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

Advocacy
2/1/23
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Meet the team leading UpLift – The Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot

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7 insights gained through a nonprofit merger

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Community-Based Participatory Research: What to Know

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How student research informed the basic income project

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How empathy is a part of systems-change work

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What we mean by 'system change'

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4 insights from researching housing instability in central Iowa

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

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7 lessons learned from Sesame Street partnership

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A closer look at mental health in schools during the pandemic

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4 questions for nonprofit and community leaders

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The Foundation's role in the HealthConnect Fellowship

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

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

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

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

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

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How we can increase everyone's access to quality foods

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

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Putting the pieces together for children to learn

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Housing code for healthier lives

Advocacy
11/7/19
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Connecting systems, connecting families

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Transforming practices to prevent trauma before birth

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The power is in the partnership

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Medicaid makes a difference

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

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Mobilizing the political will to develop a children's mental health system in Iowa

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The power of positive stressors

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

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The teachers will learn and the students will teach

Partnerships
10/23/17
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Taking a new approach - A MIHF board member's perspective

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Mid-Iowa Health Foundation announces new strategic initiative

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Report

The Economic Realities of Communities of Color in Iowa

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Report

Economic Burden of Health Inequities in the U.S.

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Report

2023 County Health Rankings National Findings Report

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Article

Graphic on Equality vs. Equity

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Article

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

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Report

2021 Community Health Needs Assessment

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White Paper

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

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Website

Communicating about Health Equity

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White Paper

Strengths of Latinx Immigrants Despite Legal Violence

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Article

Why building community power is vital for philanthropy

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Report

Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health

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Report

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

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Report

The Intersection of Racial Injustice and Youth Health in Central Iowa

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Report

Champions for Change: A Collective Commitment to Children's Health

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Report

Why aren't kids a policy priority?

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Article

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

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Website

The United States Prosperity Index 2021

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Website

Make It Okay messaging in multiple languages

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Article

8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits

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Article

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

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Guide

Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap

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Website

Frameworks Institute: Changing the conversation on social issues

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Website

Framing best practices with Topos Partnership

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Report

Systems Change & Deep Equity

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Website

Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

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Website

Iowa Public Health Association

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Report

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

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Report

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

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Website

National Academy of Medicine

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Website

Grant Makers in Health

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Guide

Results-Based Accountability Implementation Guide

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Website

Healthy People 2030

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Website

ACEs Connection

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White Paper

Understanding the Upstream Social Determinants of Health

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Report

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

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Report

Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy

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Website

Centers for Disease Control

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White Paper

Prenatal Strategies to Support Families

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Report

1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative 2020 Report

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Report

2020 One Economy: The Blueprint for Action

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Report

Human Trafficking Awareness for Youth

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Report

Mental and Sexual Health Education for Youth

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Policy Brief

Strengthening Medicaid

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Website

Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

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Website

CAMHI4Kids Children's Mental Health System

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Policy Brief

Transforming Iowa's Foster Care System to Support Kinship Caregiving

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Website

Community Catalyst System of Advocacy

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Report

The Water of Systems Change

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