Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative, Inc.

In a state as large as New York, a steady stream of smart, innovative work is coming from NYHealth grantees and non-grantees alike that is relevant to NYHealth’s priority areas of Building Healthy Communities and Empowering Health Care Consumers and its focus area on Veterans’ Health. These organizations should be elevating their work and informing key stakeholders at regional, statewide, and national conferences, meetings, and other convenings. Yet, because of a lack of resources, they are often unable to do so. To address this issue, NYHealth is awarding grants through its Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans’ Health Request for Proposals (RFP). Through this RFP, NYHealth is sponsoring low-resource organizations to attend and present at local, State, and national conferences related to these areas. In 2019, NYHealth awarded the Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative (the Collaborative) a grant to participate in this initiative as part of its efforts to build healthier communities.

Under this grant, the Collaborative sent one staff member to attend the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo. This conference brought together public health workers from across the nation to network, educate, and present on a variety of industry topics. The Collaborative attended sessions on unique collaborations between New York foundations and how they combined resources to address key factors affecting community health. The Collaborative learned about national trends in place-based investing, challenges in funding placed-based investing efforts, and the value of resident engagement to the success of any such effort. The staff member also had the opportunity to present the Collaborative’s work, network, and brought home materials that advanced future work.

View a complete list of conference participating grantees.