The Foundation believes in supporting efforts that have a measurable impact and that create meaningful and timely change. To ensure that our programs are effective, we developed a framework to organize our grantmaking practices and areas of focus. This framework recognizes that we do several different kinds of grantmaking and that improving the ways these grants work together can enhance the measurable progress we make toward our overall mission.

The framework groups most of our grantmaking into four clusters we call portfolios—Human Capital, Vulnerable Populations, Pioneer and Targeted. Within the Targeted portfolio, we have chosen a group of critical issues—Childhood Obesity, Health Insurance Coverage, Public Health and Quality/Equality—we hope to address by setting specific time-limited objectives, benchmarks, a plan of action, and a budget to accomplish the objective.