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Ciearra “CJ” Walker – Spark Prize 2025 Awardee Spotlight
This is the final article in our series recognizing each awardee of our new Spark Prize.The Spark Prize is a $200,000 award for individuals with outstanding vision, commitment, and promise to improve health and well-being in Missouri. The award is an investment in future impact, giving recipients the freedom to use the funding in whatever…
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Medicaid Basics Publication Highlights Just How Many Missourians Rely on the Program
Medicaid is a key piece of the safety net in Missouri. Known in the state as MO HealthNet, it enables lower-income Missourians to see…
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Missouri Foundation for Health and The Marshall Project Announce New Missouri-Based Health and Justice Newsroom
Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) and The Marshall Project are collaborating to establish The Marshall Project – St. Louis, a new nonprofit newsroom dedicated…
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Missourians Share Common Vision for Healthier Communities
In the final report from this year’s Speak Up MO public opinion poll, Missourians express strong support for effective ways to strengthen their communities…
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Missourians Agree That an Economy That Supports Families is Key to Health and Well-Being in the Third Speak Up MO Report
As Missourians head to the polls today, new insights from the third Speak Up MO report underscore how essential economic stability is to the…
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Medical Debt Shouldn’t Haunt Your Health
When you go to the doctor, you shouldn’t be more afraid of the bill than the diagnosis. Unfortunately, that was the situation for my…
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Changemaking Now – Fall 2024
Through Changemaking Now we highlight stories that show our commitment to achieving health equity in Missouri. In this issue: And so much more…
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Missouri’s Health Care Crisis Threatens Economic Stability
Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) released two pivotal reports today that highlight significant challenges Missourians face in getting the care they need at a…
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Upward Momentum Launches to Increase Economic Mobility in Missouri
The initiative was created to bring philanthropic dollars together with community-led organizations to address the often-neglected critical causes of generational poverty.
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We Asked, You Answered: Results of the 2023 Grantee Perception Survey
In the fall of 2023, Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) commissioned the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to conduct an anonymous survey of MFH…
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The Path to Justice Winds Through Ferguson
This article was originally published by the St. Louis Business Journal. It has been republished with permission. Ten years have passed since Michael Brown’s…
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New Poll Finds Most Missourians View the State Positively Amidst Major Concerns Over Cost of Living and Health Care
Missourians have a complex relationship with their home state, according to initial polling results released by Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH). While Missourians express…
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The Health Impacts of Missouri’s Abortion Ban Cannot Be Ignored
Missouri was the first state in the nation to make abortion illegal in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s…