Advancing Health Equity in Brooklyn, NY
WELCOME
Welcome from the President and CEO,
The Reverend Canon Howard K. Williams, D. Min.
The Brooklyn Health Equity Foundation (BHE Foundation) is honored to have you visit this site and invites you to partner with us to advance health equity in Brooklyn.
Health equity for us means ensuring access to high quality, culturally competent, primary preventive, and tertiary care to all Brooklyn residents. We want to ensure that there are enough competent providers to meet the diverse needs of Brooklyn, the largest and most populous borough in New York City.
Brooklyn faces many challenges that impact on its resident’s overall health and wellbeing, so we invest in programs and services to promote health equity and reduce health care disparities. These programs can be hospital based, community based public health prevention efforts, and advocacy efforts to tackle long term institutional and social changes.
The BHE Foundation supports organizations and community groups/institutions by awarding programmatic grants of $2,000 to $20,000.
Please find more information and an application form in the GRANTS section in the drop-down menu.
We also welcome your gifts and comments.
Sincerely,
Howard K. Williams
ABOUT BHE FOUNDATION
Advancing Health Equity in Brooklyn
History of the IM Foundation, Inc now known as the Brooklyn Health Equity Foundation, BHE
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In 1983, Brooklyn Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, a sectarian hospital in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in Central Brooklyn, merged with St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Hospital to form Interfaith Medical Center (“IMC”). As part of the plan, the IM Foundation, Inc. was formed on January 14, 1983.
The name was changed to Brooklyn Health Equity Foundation in 2022 to better reflect the mission and the community served.
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To Advance Health Equity in Brooklyn, New York.
Activities to support the mission include the following:
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Awarding grants to other organizations with similar missions.
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Sponsoring health education programs with and for the community.
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Providing support for Community Outreach Programs.
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Collecting, exchanging, and disseminating research and information concerning the advancement of health equity in Brooklyn.
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Sponsoring activities for Community residents.
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Sponsoring programs to benefit local hospitals.
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Fundraising events to support BHE Foundation's charitable mission and purposes.