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September 16, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
Today, we have announced a Call for Nominations for a position on our public oversight board, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Consortium on Public and Community Health (Consortium).
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Categories- AHW News & Announcements
September 1, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
Today, we are proud to announce the availability of up to $6 million in funding awards to support projects focused on improving health and advancing health equity in Wisconsin.
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Categories- AHW News & Announcements
- Funding Opportunities
August 28, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
On a sunny, cold February day in 2019, representatives from a network of agencies across Milwaukee gathered at the Greater Galilee Baptist Church in Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights neighborhood. They were there to hear Dr. Leonard Egede, professor of medicine, chief of general internal medicine, and director of the Center for Advancing Population Science at the Medical College of Wisconsin, share his vision for addressing health disparities across 10 Milwaukee zip codes.
Egede is leading the COME ALIVE MILWAUKEE project, which aims to reduce the burden of chronic disease and health disparities in high-risk minority communities. Funded by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment, the project takes an exciting approach to population health, one that relies on collaborative community relationships working alongside scientific rigor to improve the health of a community.
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Categories- Population & Community Health
- Project Profiles
August 28, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
It’s a project that some funders would shy away from. In 2018, Milwaukee-based nonprofit the Benedict Center was exploring ways to address a crisis among a population of women it served – women in the street-based sex trade – when data pointed to a solution: Housing. The women the center served reported that they were most often homeless. To exit the trade, they needed supportive programming, which the Benedict Center could provide, but also a safe, stable place to call home.
The center’s leadership recognized the unbreakable connection between housing and good health. The problem? There was no entry point for the women they served in the current housing support system. The cost of opening and operating a shelter was out of reach, so the center’s leadership looked at a more sustainable solution: change the system to work better for these women, and for the community as a whole.
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Categories- Policy, Systems, & Culture Change
- Project Profiles
August 28, 2020, Posted by AHW Endowment
As a statewide philanthropy housed within a private academic medical center, AHW has always funded cutting-edge research that improves health. When the endowment created funding pathways in 2019, devoting one entirely to research was a no-brainer.
“This is where so much of our MCW expertise lays,” said Kristen Gardner-Volle, program manager overseeing the pathway. “We believe advancing new discovery and creating new knowledge is critical to impacting health in our state, and leads to better clinical care, new treatments, and real population-level results.”
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Categories- Basic, Clinical, & Translational Research
- Project Profiles