Topic Area: Grant-making programs

ICH was the evaluator for the Voices for Health Justice (Voices) 1.0 program, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and run by a Steering Committee comprising Community Catalyst, Community Change, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From December 2020 to March 2023, Voices 1.0 provided funding and technical assistance to 25 grantee organizations and their subgrantee partners in 24 states. The overarching goal of the program was to build power in communities experiencing disproportionate health inequities to improve healthcare accessibility, affordability, and ability to treat all people with dignity. ICH used a participatory and utilization-focused approach guided by the principles of equitable evaluation. This approach meant, among other things, that we were intentional in recognizing and valuing the expertise of grantees and other stakeholders and ensuring that they had a voice in evaluation design and methods, and that we were attentive to the contexts programs were operating in and how this impacted different populations.

ICH is conducting a process and outcomes evaluation for the Determination of Need programs of two Mass General Brigham hospitals – Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital – which are supporting initiatives related to mental/behavioral health, housing, food/nutrition security, and economic mobility/financial stability in Suffolk County.

ICH is evaluating an AcademyHealth grantmaking program designed to support health care system transformation research. The evaluation aims to understand the grantees’ work, and the impact of that work on health systems.

ICH is the evaluator for the second round of the Voices for Health Justice program (Voices 2.0). Voices seeks to build power in communities experiencing health inequities to improve the health care system’s accessibility, affordability, and ability to treat all people with dignity.

ICH is the evaluator for the second round of the Voices for Health Justice program (Voices 2.0). Voices seeks to build power in communities experiencing health inequities to improve the health care system’s accessibility, affordability, and ability to treat all people with dignity.
ICH is evaluating RIZE’s Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, which is awarding grants from the state Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund (ORRF) to organizations across Massachusetts to support substance use prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery.
ICH is evaluating RIZE’s Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, which is awarding grants from the state Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund (ORRF) to organizations across Massachusetts to support substance use prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery.

ICH is providing technical assistance and evaluation support to the RIZE Massachusetts Taking Action initiative, which awarded grants to community based organizations improving access and equity in opioid use disorder care.

ICH is providing technical assistance and evaluation support to the RIZE Massachusetts Taking Action initiative, which awarded grants to community based organizations improving access and equity in opioid use disorder care.