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Remembering "Maggie" Mahoney, RWJF Pioneer

December 27, 2011 | Story

Mahoney, RWJF’s first vice president in our days as a national institution, and later the first woman to head a major U.S. philanthropy as president of The Commonwealth Fund, passed away on December 22, after a long illness.

Meetings of Refugee Health Coordinators Create the Refugee Health Information Network

October 29, 2009 | Program Result

RWJF funded two meetings convened by the Center for Public Service Communications (CPSC), which led to the creation of the Refugee Health Information Network.

Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care

January 29, 2002 | Program Result

Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.

Alabama Program Teaches Cosmetologists and College Students to Conduct Community-Based Health Outreach

October 1, 2004 | Program Result

Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.

Community Health Promoters Reach Medically Underserved

January 1, 2003 | Program Result

From late 1997 to the end of 2000, the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation provided internships for bilingual residents of a low-income neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles who had been trained as professional community health promoters. Esperanza developed the health-promoter training program to increase access to health and health care information, and...

Taking it to the Streets: Community Health Workers Improve Access for Low-Income Residents

January 28, 2002 | Program Result

The New Community Corporation, the largest nonprofit housing corporation in New Jersey, worked with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), a worldwide humanitarian organization in health care, to train Community Health Workers.

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