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November 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Mixteca Organization, Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y., provides a broad scope of health and education programs, including literacy and computer classes, English-language courses, and afterschool programs, to thousands of Hispanic New Yorkers each year.
June 1, 2012 | Story
Program that rescues women from substance abuse, incarceration and poverty begins again.
January 26, 2010 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
October 8, 2009 | Story
Holden has won a 2009 RWJF Community Health Leaders Award for her work to establish an all-volunteer organization that encourages and nurtures disadvantaged students from Harlem and the South Bronx in New York City to enter the medical profession.
September 6, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: How do you plan to identify children and families for the program? Lopez: Any children who live in two specific zip codes in East Harlem are eligible. That takes in tens of thousands of apartment units. And, unfortunately, 15 to 25 percent of s ...
July 26, 2011 | Story
A Community Health Leader shows young people how to make their dreams of becoming medical professionals come true. Here, Lynne Holden, M.D., talks about the scope of her program and program graduates tell their stories (video).
August 23, 2010 | Story
2010 Community Health Leader Award winner's work provides vital information to patients.
August 18, 2010 | Story
With the disease on the rise, Wanda Montalvo and the New York State Diabetes Campaign are working to make sure diabetes sufferers are diagnosed and getting the care they need.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Apollo Theater Foundation, in partnership with North General Hospital and Affinity Health Plan, sponsored a series of health fairs for Harlem residents.