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HEF Open Application Period for 2024-2025 Funding Cycle
HEF is now accepting applications for its 2024-2025 funding cycle, until June 23, 2024.
Public health plays an essential role in protecting and strengthening the health of every community. The Richmond and Henrico Public Health Foundation is a nonprofit organization that develops and mobilizes resources to promote health and health equity in Richmond and Henrico.
To improve health in communities experiencing deep disparities and the longstanding impacts of racism, the Health Equity Fund invests in community-led projects that are filling gaps and strengthening outcomes.
HEF is now accepting applications for its 2024-2025 funding cycle, until June 23, 2024.
On April 18, RHHD welcomed Shaleetta Drawbaugh as the new Health Equity Fund Program Officer.
In 2023, we undertook high-impact work that both advanced our mission of putting resources into community-based projects and that challenged entrenched inequities in our populations’ health outcomes.