Two women walking outside with a stroller
Community Impact Grant

Improving Health for Mothers and Babies Through Care Coordination and Connection

When Kim Ashford, a community health worker with ConnectRx Wisconsin peeks into the stroller and sees six-month-old KaCee Curry babbling and kicking his legs, she breaks into a big smile like a proud aunt.

Stephanie Dodge in a greenhouse. The back of their shirt says: Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition
Community Impact Grant

Creating a Culturally Vibrant Food System

There was a moment when Gary Besaw knew the work to improve the food systems for the Indigenous people of Wisconsin was paying off, and it happened in the greeting card aisle of the Walmart in Shawano.

Marshfield Clinic Health System Community Connections Team
Community Impact Grant

Connecting Clinics, Campuses and Communities to Improve Health

From an office in Hibbard Hall on the UW-Eau Claire campus, neuroscience major Samantha Thompson works the phones, looking for resources across central and northern Wisconsin that can help keep people healthy.

porridge in cups
Community Impact Grant

Promoting Food Sovereignty Among Indigenous Communities

The Oneida Nation is developing a model of programming that promotes traditional food ways, agriculture, and cultural identity among Indigenous communities as a comprehensive approach to reducing health disparities and improving health and health care.

Community Impact Grant

Advancing School-Based Mental Health Care

Advancing School-Based Mental Health in Dane County is a five-year $1 million Community Impact Grant award to the Madison Metropolitan School District that will develop an innovative model to provide care that's easily accessible to students.

Community Impact Grant

Improving Health by Addressing Housing Instability

A grant to Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, Milwaukee’s largest federally qualified health center, supports the organization’s work to build a strong foundation of community health by addressing housing instability in its community.

A smiling elderly woman
Community Impact Grant

Improving Care for Wisconsin Seniors

The Improving Assisted Living through Collaborative Systems Change project is expanding and enhancing access to the Wisconsin Coalition for Collaborative Excellence in Assisted Living, or WCCEAL, an established and test quality improvement infrastructure.

Community Impact Grant

Addressing Wisconsin’s Opioid Problem

A pair of Wisconsin Partnership Program grants to the Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program and WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network are helping to raise awareness of opioid addition and laying a groundwork for community-based treatment and recovery programs.

Al Castro
Community Impact Grant

Improving Dementia Care and Treatment for the Latino Community

United Community Center is using a Community Impact Grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to develop the Latino Dementia Heath Regional Consortium.

Community Impact Grant

Strengthening Social Connection to Reduce Health Inequities

Nehemiah Center's initiative, supported by the Wisconsin Partnership Program, focuses on reducing health disparities among Black people by addressing the health impacts of racism.