Philanthropy and community development: partners in health
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue focus (Grantmakers in Health)
- Author(s):
- Dann, Meryl, author
- Contributor(s):
- Grantmakers in Health, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : Grantmakers in Health, July 21, 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care -- economics Financing, Organized -- organization & administration Healthcare Financing Social Planning Private Sector Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are a valuable potential partner for health philanthropy. Across the nation, CDFIs are funding projects to support health care centers and clinics, grocery stores with healthy food options, and healthy housing. CDFIs grew out of the Civil Rights Movement and War on Poverty of the 1960s. They were established to address the need for capital in underserved and distressed communities, and to improve access to financial services, affordable credit, and investment capital not otherwise available from traditional financial institutions. Today, there are more than 900 U.S. Treasury Department-certified CDFIs, and together they have well over $30 billion in assets under management (Salamon 2014). There is growing interest among health funders in how these types of investments can improve health outcomes.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101698164 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101698164