The beginning of October marks the 10-year anniversary of the official launch of Episcopal Health Foundation!
On a warm morning inside Iglesia Episcopal San Mateo in Houston’s Gulfton neighborhood, EHF leaders announced the Foundation’s initial vision, goals, and strategies. The event and news conference served as the public beginning of our work to improve health, not just health care across Texas.
Since then, EHF has changed the conversation on health by not only working to make health care more accessible for those most in need, but by investing in new and different solutions that address underlying, non-medical factors that lead to poor health.
In 10 years, EHF has invested more than $500 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, produced and funded more than 100 research reports focused on health from all angles, and worked with 125+ Episcopal congregations to help them improve the health and well-being of the communities they serve.
In 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas transferred the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System to Catholic Health Initiatives and used the proceeds to create the Episcopal Health Foundation.
Since the announcement of EHF’s vision in 2014, the $1.3 billion start-up foundation has grown from a small group of employees from St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities to a 30-member team with wide backgrounds in public health, public policy, safety-net health systems, community engagement, and more.
EHF released a new strategic framework in January that doubled down on the foundation’s groundbreaking work by challenging Texans to go beyond the doctor’s office to address non-medical factors impacting health and also focus on critical game-changing priorities: food/nutrition security, maternal health, and diabetes prevention.
