Kansas Health Foundation

Building Power: The objective for the Building Power strategy is threefold: 1) Strengthen our commitment to racial equity. 2) Create powerful organizations working to advance racial equity. 3) Build long-term partnerships. In support of this strategy, our commitment is to provide each of our thirty partners $1 million of support over a ten-year period. - Grants of $3,112,046 to support efforts across the state of Kansas to improve overall health outcomes. - $2,726,667 of support in mobilization efforts across communities to impact healthcare change. - Support of $2,145,000 was granted for efforts to develop a Center for African American Health Studies. - Grant activity of $1,392,532 to increase the power of organizations advocating better policy outcomes for Medicaid expansion, children health, oral health, and other heath related interests. - Grants of $340,400 to support various efforts to build power in communities. - Expenses of $1,184,691 were expended for the Foundation's internal operations.

Policy & Systems Mobilization: The objective for the Policy and Systems Mobilization strategy is threefold: 1) Simplify our policy investments to achieve greater impact. 2) Strengthen our commitment to eliminating inequities. 3) Achieve substantial changes in policy outcomes effecting the health of Kansans. To achieve these goals, we are funding multiple organizations that are focused on health policy outcomes and using our resources to encourage collaboration amongst these entities to achieve greater impact. - 3 grants totaling $1,900,000 to support policy efforts * $1,300,000 of grants to provide core support for policy efforts impacting children * 1 grant of $600,000 to support effort to foster civic leadership across Kansas - Expenses of $364,188 were expended for the Foundation's internal operations.