Campaigns Seek to Improve Health Care for Immigrants

August 20, 2009

A project known as New Routes to Community Health seeks to improve the well-being of immigrants through multimedia campaigns created by immigrant-led groups.

A joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson and Benton Foundations, New Routes to Community Health has awarded three-year grants of $225,000 each to coalitions of immigrant groups in eight cities to create health campaigns on topics of specific interest in their neighborhoods, in both English and their native languages.

For more information: Go to http:// newroutes.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.