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Diego Abente – Spark Prize 2025 Awardee Spotlight
Over the next few months, we’ll be recognizing each awardee of our new Spark Prize with a feature article.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…
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The Evolution of the Epidemic: Missouri’s Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic is one of Missouri’s most pressing health issues. To put it in perspective, roughly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in…
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Growing a Successful Opportunity Fund Grant
Our new Opportunity Fund program only launched this past February, but we’re already proud to share the first approved proposal, “Missouri’s First Agricultural Park.”…
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Ferguson: Where Are We Three Years Later?
Michael Brown’s death on August 9, 2014, sparked a cascading series of protests, reactions, and racially charged dynamics that have come to be broadly…
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The Many Factors That Lead to Lifelong Health
I don’t think I’m biased when I say that we have an exceptional organizational mission – “to improve the health and well-being of individuals…
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Looking Back on Oral Health: Our Commitment to Evaluation and Learning
In the field of philanthropy, we often wonder if what we’re doing is working. Are our resources – both human and financial – being…
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Healing America’s Health Care System: What now?
In previous posts, I’ve discussed why the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is the wrong medicine and explored the right medicine – universal, affordable…
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The Right Medicine for American Health Care
In a previous post, a diagnosis of American health care ills revealed that – for various reasons – the American Health Care Act is…
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Why the American Health Care Act is the Wrong Medicine
American health care is sick. It is a big, complicated, vitally important part of American society – it is woven into our culture, our…
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New Foundation Program Aims to Strengthen and Encourage Innovation in Public Health Infrastructure in Missouri
Multifaceted plan will help communities develop and sponsor new ideas to improve infrastructure, while also offering much-needed direct support. ST. LOUIS, MO (April 24,…
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Making Sense of Public Statements: Universal Access to Coverage
As news reports attempt to keep up with the fast-paced developments in ideas for fundamentally changing the nation’s health insurance infrastructure for low-and moderate-income…
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Seize the Opportunity Fund
Missouri has its share of health issues – big and small. Some, like infant mortality, require long-term commitments and resources to see impact, while…
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Health in Rural Communities: Invisible in national health reform?
Recently I met with community health leaders in three Missouri communities – Kirksville, Unionville, and Hannibal. In wide-ranging discussions on the state of health…