The Connecticut Health Foundation, created by ConnectiCare, Inc. when it reorganized and converted into a for-profit entity, is focused on three key program areas: Improving Access to Children’s Mental Health Services , Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Expanding Access to and Utilization of Oral Health Services.
The Connecticut Health Foundation (CHF) is the state’s largest independent, non-profit grantmaking foundation dedicated to improving the health of the people of Connecticut through systemic change and program innovation. Since it was established, CHF has funded over $30 million in grants.
The Foundation was created when health maintenance organization (HMO) ConnectiCare, Inc., reorganized and converted into a for-profit entity. Under an agreement approved by the Connecticut Attorney General, CHF received 100 percent of the equity in ConnectiCare. Private investors purchased CHF’s shares in January of 2001.
Leaving CHF with an initial endowment totaling $130 million in June of 2001, its 15-member Board of Directors made a commitment to examine the underlying causes of barriers to health care among the unserved and underserved by directing 5 percent of its endowment toward grantmaking operations each year.
The Foundation focuses its resources on three program areas:
Aside from directly supporting community-based grant proposals, CHF fosters discussions surrounding public health issues through conferences, meetings, educational briefings, workshops, etc. The Foundation also invests resources into conducting objective research on issues important to health policy debate such as Connecticut’s spending cap and the oral health of publicly insured children throughout the state. For more information on the Connecticut Health Foundation please follow this link: http://www.cthealth.org
