A New Chapter for Missouri Foundation for Health
Through the years, we’ve learned that lasting change happens when communities hold the resources, relationships, and power to identify their own priorities and shape their own solutions. That’s why we’re evolving our approach to ensure communities are at the center of progress.
Talking Through Change
If we half-fill a hole, it is still a hole.” – Dr. Dwayne Proctor, MFH President and CEO, and Kathleen Holmes, MFH Vice President of Transformation and Integration, discuss why lasting change requires deep community partnerships. See the full conversation at https://mffh.org/newchapter.
We are a resource for the region, working with communities and nonprofits to generate and accelerate positive changes in health.
Our 5 service areas include 84 counties and the city of St. Louis
Northeast
Famous author and humorist Mark Twain was born in Florida, MO, and his boyhood home is now a museum in Hannibal, MO.
Central
The University of Missouri in Columbia was the first college in the world to offer a journalism degree (1908).
St. Louis
Maya Angelou, often referred to as “The People’s Poet Laureate,” was born in St. Louis, MO.
Southwest
A herd of about 100 bison make their home in Prairie State Park, located in Barton County, MO.
Southeast
Missouri mines more lead than any other state in the nation, with six mines operating in what is known as the Lead Belt.
