HEALTHY AMERICAS FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Our Mission is to Build a Healthier Future for the Americas. To innovate, incubate, and invest in communities to improve the health of individuals and families throughout the Americas.
About This Cause
The Healthy Americas Foundation (HAF) is committed to the best health for all. The HAF is a U.S. based national non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization that strives to improve and further the health of individuals and families in their communities. Our actions are tailored to the needs and resources that exist at the local level. We work with a broad group of partners and consistent with our mission, do not accept funding from tobacco, alcohol, or sugar sweetened beverage companies. We are grounded in the experience of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and its many partners. Celebrating 51 years, the Alliance has grown to become a network of community-based members that deliver quality health and human services to over 15 million persons annually and national members that provide services to over 100 million persons annually. HAF is innovating, incubating, and investing in communities. Our efforts foster community-driven efforts that improve the lives of individuals and families throughout the Americas. HAF efforts are grounded in and celebrate the role of culture; redefine health as not merely absence of illness; and, nurture wellness in body, mind, and spirit. HAF focuses on three critical underpinnings to a healthy Americas: collaboration with communities, supportive solutions, and international partnerships. Collaboration with Communities We have a track record for working with communities and as result HAF’s first efforts centered on developing capital to foster new approaches and expand the reach of proven solutions. This was based on initial interviews with community-based organization (CBO) leaders who made clear that they had specific needs that go beyond that of a typical capital campaign aimed towards a building. We also worked to bring the PACE (Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) model to local communities. Our 18 years of success with ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® shows the tremendous collaborative capacity that local organizations can mobilize, leveraging seed grants 10 to 1 to deliver services to over a quarter million families including over 100,000 free health screenings powered by over 500 partner groups and 50,000 volunteer hours. We have learned that the strategy of developing a model and scaling up often ignores the resources, strengths, and needs of communities. As a result we collaborate with communities by listening to their needs and developing innovative interventions to amplify with their resources. Our most recent efforts focus on collaborations to enhance the work of community-based organizations to support children and their families. Nuestros Niños: Sesame Street in Communities is fostering collaborations with communities to create a future in which all children will have the support they need in the first years of life to grow smarter, stronger, and kinder to shape a better world and future for all. We opened Sesame Street Comfy-Cozy Spaces in 20 cities. Our collaborative efforts resonate to the needs of the communities we serve. Supportive Solutions Supportive solutions include providing infrastructure support to individuals and organizations. Our work has taught us that support needs to be timely, flexible, and often behind the scenes. What we provide ranges from the services provided through our helpline to individuals to support for organizations. We offer different levels and types of support to organizations using a combination of our assets. For example, as a commitment to our sector, during periods of organizational recalibration, HAF provided a home and support for organizations including the National Council on Patient Information and Education, Columbus Children’s Foundation, and the National Human Services Assembly. Core to our successful supportive solutions are a combination of seed grants, research, and advocacy. These solutions are often initiatives that provide a first in the field opportunity. Today there is a great imperative for timely information to drive decisions and policy. Our model challenges 20th century models in medicine, science, and health to rethink the existing frameworks of health and wellness. HAF addresses problems that are too often ignored. This can be the targeting of Hispanic youth by the tobacco industry or the exclusion of the Hispanic data and the voices of Hispanic women in considering guidelines for cervical cancer screening. HAF supports solutions in making voices heard and amplifying those voices. The success of our efforts is a result of our finely tuned strategy for leveraging seed grants, research, and advocacy to improve the health of communities. We support the work of others. International Partnerships HAF was founded with the vision of being able to fund throughout the Americas. That vision has been achieved with our Buena Salud Americas (BSA) initiative. We were able to build on the unique status of The National Alliance for Hispanic Health (The Alliance) as a recognized NGO in official relations with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). As a result, HAF through its Buena Salud (Good Health) – Americas Initiative, convened multisector meetings on specific topics in Colombia (cardiovascular diseases), Mexico (capacity building in public health policy and community engagement), and Panama (cervical cancer and other HPV related diseases). Through the BSA grants, community and civil society organizations are building local advocacy, increasing awareness about cervical cancer and HPV, and helping to disseminate trusted and accurate information about prevention of cervical cancer and HPV. HAF gave a grant to MultiPOD Mentoring to speed up and strengthen the professional development, personal growth, and technical ability of Global Health and Human Development students and young professionals through the personal guidance and support of top-qualified and experienced mentors. This mostly volunteer effort is a successful and fast-growing long-distance, multi-country, professional and personal development program directed to promising young practitioners and future leaders of Global Health and Human Development. There is much work to be done and HAF is poised to be part of the solution. Your support is crucial to our cause.