Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF)
Northwest Health Foundation seeks to advance, support, and promote health in Oregon and Southwest Washington by providing grants to initiatives, forming partnerships, and advocating for policy change. Since 2009, Insight for Action has collaborated with NWHF on multiple initiatives including the Kaiser Permanente Community Fund.
The Kaiser Permanente Community Fund (KPCF) was a 13-year, $32 million initiative designed to enhance social determinants in early life, education, and economic systems that were community-led, equity-focused, and collaboratively implemented. The initiative funded 207 projects led by 146 organizations in Oregon and SW Washington. We served as a learning partner by co-designing an evaluation and learning framework, conducting an outcome harvest of policy and environmental changes, profiling several success cases, and documenting 20 grantees’ actions around the Fund’s guiding values. We also provided systems change technical assistance to 26 nonprofits and county health departments awarded KPCF grants through customized coaching, a 9-month learning collaborative, and workshops.