Grant Details
Grant Program
Building Capacity for Health Advocacy
Organization
Alabama Arise
Year
2023
Scope
State
Grant Amount
$75,000
Links
The first installment of a two-year grant to Alabama Arise to support their efforts to strengthen grassroots organizing and community engagement, to work proactively toward policies and practices that will improve the health and well-being of people in Alabama.
Alabama Arise – In the News
Protecting Medicaid Coverage
Approximately 61,000 Alabamians may lose their Medicaid coverage by June 2024, as a result of the winding down public health emergency (PHE). Alabama Arise outlines how Alabama can protect health coverage during the Medicaid ‘unwinding’ period.
2022 Cover Alabama Health Fair
In November 2022, Cover Alabama and Alabama Arise hosted a health fair and a panel on Medicaid expansion in Fort Payne. Hear from Arise’s Cover Alabama campaign director Debbie Smith and other community members about why we held the health fair and why Medicaid expansion would save and improve lives in DeKalb County and across Alabama.
Advocates Fighting Cervical Cancer
In August 2022, six Black women from Alabama’s Black Belt region gathered for a weekend of intense and insightful advocacy training. Learn how the training uplifted the often invisible organizing and community-building work that is happening across Alabama.