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Connections for Cardiovascular Health SM (CCH) The goal for the Foundation, as it is for the grant awardees, is to establish connections. These Connections for Cardiovascular Health SM (CCH)-funded programs are helping to create a “movement.” Studies have shown that programs conducted in a community setting have a higher chance of success and instigating behavioral change (Sources: American Heart Association 1 and Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2 ). Through Foundation grants, community-based programs provide targeted approaches to address inequities in cardiovascular health. The programs interact with people in the context of family, community, and culture. They reach out via schools, churches, grocery stores, barbershops, and even farmers’ markets. Many also utilize local neighborhood residents as certified health workers, health promoters, or lifestyle coaches to encourage optimal health behaviors. These health workers are important and trusted liaisons, providing cultural mediation between health services and the community via outreach, navigation and follow-up, education, informal counseling, and social support. They assist people in accessing needed services and build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities. The Center for Social and Economic Policy Research at West Chester University The on-boarding of this organization supports the Board of Trustees’ request for evaluation support of the CCH-funded programs. Graduatelevel professors from West Chester University also provide outside representation on the Foundation’s review committees to help facilitate the review process. 1 Pearson TA, Bazzarre TL, Daniels SR, et al. American Heart Association guide for improving cardiovascular health at the community level: A statement for public health practitioners, healthcare providers, and health policy makers from the American Heart Association Expert Panel on Population and Prevention Science. Circulation. 2003;107:645-651. 2 Kaczorowski J, Del Grande C, Nadeau-Grenier V. Community-based programs to improve prevention and management of hypertension: Recent Canadian experiences, challenges, and opportunities. Can J Cardiol. 2013;29:571-578. Grant Application Process Funding is awarded to nonprofit organizations that submit an application via the Foundation’s website at www.astrazeneca-us.com/foundation. The annual deadline for application submissions is in February. Grant Review Process Applications are reviewed by the Foundation Grant Review Committee. Final grant award selections are made by the Board of Trustees in September of each year, and funds are distributed in November. Awards are made public via events and the media the following February. 6
The Power of Partnerships In November of 2011, 20 nonprofit organizations from across the United States were awarded a total of $3.6 million in grants to implement their programs in 2012, which were funded, in part, with a grant from the CCH program. These 20 awardees worked throughout 2012 to improve cardiovascular health in some of the worst areas for major cardiovascular age-adjusted death rates. The results of their 2012 programs are highlighted on the following pages. The Connections for Cardiovascular Health SM program provides annual grants to US-based nonprofit organizations engaged in charitable work at the community level. 7
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