Mackenzie Scott鈥檚 Yield Giving Announces $2 Million Grant to South Bronx鈥檚 Health People to Expand Peer-to-Peer Education to Tackle Most Wide-Spread 鈥 and Preventable 鈥 Chronic Diseases Afflicting Residents of Poor and Minority Communities
Health PeopleToday, we鈥檙e excited to share that we鈥檝e been selected to receive a $2million gift as an awardee of the Yield Giving Open Call. Our project was selected from among 6,353 applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico after a process of multiple levels of review, feedback, and diligence involving peer applicants and an external Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this cause. Health People is very grateful and excited to use these funds to develop our Community Training Institute, enabling us to effectively train other community groups across the city to implement peer-based chronic disease self-care and preventive education.