Humanitarian aid powerhouse Direct Relief announced its latest round of health equity grants, providing over $22 million to 71 organizations focused on reducing health disparities in underserved communities throughout the U.S. Seed capital for Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity came from Eli Lilly, AbbVie Foundation and MacKenzie Scott.
Grants awarded from the Fund for Health Equity are earmarked for nonprofit organizations, community health centers, charitable clinics and other providers of non-clinical interventions that impact individual and family health. Such interventions and factors include the economic, social, physical, cultural, racial and ethnic context for individuals, often collectively referred to as the social determinants of health.
Direct Relief remains engaged in work across all 50 U.S. states, as well as over 80 countries, in which the organization is dedicated to enhancing health outcomes and equity for groups that historically or acutely suffer from marginalization, hardship or underrepresentation.
Additional information about the latest round of health equity grants can be found here.
