The Rx Foundation supports collaborative initiatives to promote health justice, healing and wellness in communities throughout the United States.

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Advancing Health Justice in the United States

The Rx Foundation has made grants totaling over $35 million since our founding in 2002, and the resulting collaborations have addressed a wide range of challenges in the health care delivery system and in communities impacted by health inequities. We engage with diverse partners committed to a future in which all communities build their connections, capacity and power to address the root causes of poor health.

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Join us for our next Power is a Social Determinant of Health webinar

Community-led solutions & movement building for health justice: lessons from Long COVID Justice

Join us October 24 at 1pm EST for a discussion with Emi Kane and Gabriel San Emeterio from Long COVID Justice and Strategies for High Impact, along with Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH from People’s CDC.

Disability justice examines “disability and ableism as they relate to other forms of oppression and identity such as race, class and gender”, and operates with the understanding that interdependence, community care, and solutions led by and for disabled people are crucial to our survival.

The organization Long COVID Justice works through a disability justice lens to build power with people living with Long COVID and associated conditions (pwLCAC) and other disabled people to shape and lead research, policy, advocacy, and narrative organizing around the issues that impact our lives and our communities. People’s CDC is a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.

The panel discussion with San Emeterio, Jirmanus, and Kane will dive into questions that include: How can the Long COVID crisis act as a point of entry or on-ramp to help us build power and grow a movement with and across a wide range of communities? What is disability justice? How does this framework help us approach questions of health equity holistically through a lens that we think of as the “structural determinants of health”? What are some examples of people-led health responses resulting from gaps and failures of healthcare institutions, media, and public health systems?

The Latest

New and noteworthy from the Rx Foundation network

Covid Molecule

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Democracy happens outside: Leveraging parks for community connection & health equity

In our latest Power is a Social Determinant of Health webinar, colleagues from Trust for Public Land and Parque Padrinos dive into the academic research around social capital, cohesion, and civic engagement through park engagement, and detail how activating a park generated a movement with long-ranging impacts on community power and health equity in Wenatchee, Washington.

HFCA

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Progress comes from supporting community-based, multiracial democracy

In an op-ed, co-authored by Kelly Nowlin, Jennie Riley (Executive Director, Rx Foundation) shares four lessons learned and tangible actions funders can take to support community-based, multiracial democratic practices across the country.

El Centro, Kansas City

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Reproductive Justice: Advocacy, Celebrating Founding Mothers, and Nurturing Young Leaders

In our most recent newsletter issue, we are thrilled to spotlight our grant partner In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, a national-state partnership focused on lifting up the voices of Black women leaders across the country in their fight to secure Reproductive Justice for all women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals.

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