Lead poisoning is a ubiquitous, yet solvable threat to children’s health and well-being. The disease affects hundreds of thousands of children each year with tragic consequences for their school performance and success in life. Foundations are increasingly engaging in policy-and systems-level change to advance their health equity goals. One way to amplify these efforts is through partnerships across grantmaking organizations.
The Lead Funders Action Network brings together national, regional, state, and local foundations who are working collaboratively and strategically to address gaps in the field of childhood lead poisoning and make philanthropic investments more synergistic to advance the prevention of the disease. The explicit charge of the group is to identify tangible and practical ways to work collaboratively and strategically to address gaps in the field of childhood lead poisoning and make philanthropic investments more synergistic to advance the prevention of the disease.
Learn more about the group’s partners and work.
Recommended Resources and Reading
- Achieving Equity in Lead Poisoning Prevention Policy Making Report, December 2018, funded by The Joyce Foundation.
- Better Lead Policy, web -based policy tool developed by Earthjustice, and funded by The New York Community Trust.
- Blog post "The Surprising Roles That Landlords (And Philanthropy) Can Play In Promoting Children's Health," by Daniel Cohn, Vice President of Strategy for the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, and Cara Matteliano, Vice President of Community Impact at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
- "Accelerating Lead Remediation Through Financing Strategies" Scan by Next Street, funded by The JPB Foundation.
- Lead Safe Home Funds information, Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition's public-private solution to prevent lead poisoning in Cleveland, Ohio.
- The National Center for Healthy Housing Lead Poisoning Prevention Program,funded by The New York Community Trust and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Toolkit to Fund Lead Poisoning and Prevention by Green & Health Homes Initiative, funded by The JPB Foundation.
- Value of Lead Prevention, a cost and benefits analysis tool to calculate the cost of preventing childhood lead exposure by Altarum, funded by The New York Community Trust and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.