Community Health Initiatives

Our Community Health Initiatives for Healthy Eating and Active Living started seven years ago as prevention-driven community-based efforts to reverse the obesity crisis and its related ills. That work has greatly expanded in recent years to address the full range of social and environmental factors that contribute to the growing obesity epidemic – local and regional land use planning and neighborhood economic development, school nutrition and physical activity programs, public safety initiatives, healthy food access in distressed neighborhoods, support for local agriculture, and much more.

In 2010, we invested more than $20.5 million in Community Health Initiatives — investments that took us beyond our medical centers to support healthy changes to the environments and policies that shape our communities.