Programs and Grants
In the Vulnerable Populations Portfolio, we create new opportunities for better health by investing in health where it starts—in our homes, schools, and jobs. View all active grants
Learn about our programs and grantees
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Cure Violence
A public health approach at work in cities across the country that reduces violence using disease control and behavior change strategies.
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The Green House Project
Developing small community homes as alternatives to nursing homes, this radical, new national model for skilled nursing care returns control, dignity, and a sense of well-being to elders, their families, and direct care staff.
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Health Leads
Health Leads enables clinicians to “prescribe” things like food, heat, and housing; trained college volunteers work within hospitals and clinics to "fill" those prescriptions by securing the basic, non-medical resources low-income patients need to be healthy.
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Better Futures Enterprises
Better Futures Enterprises, formerly known as The Network for Better Futures, is a breakthrough social innovation that improves the lives of high-risk men by connecting them with the resources they need—housing, jobs, healthcare, and a supportive community.
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Playworks
By providing a safe, healthy recess every day in low-income, urban elementary schools across America, Playworks is transforming school climate and enhancing children's social, emotional and physical development.
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EDIPPP
National Demonstration of Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults is an innovative model that improves the health and well-being of adolescents by using evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
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Reclaiming Futures
Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime® is a new approach to helping teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol, trauma and crime by uniting juvenile courts, probation, adolescent substance abuse treatment, and the community.
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Start Strong
National effort to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent relationship violence among youth.
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Forward Promise
A new initiative focused on improving the health and success of middle- and high-school-aged boys and young men of color.