Grant News

From left to right: Daniel (Danny) Meloy, Associate Director of Clinical Operations; Amanda Rodriguez, Supervisor of Clinical Operations; Gloria Johnson, Community Health Worker (holding the Davis Award); Mary Kay Gilbert, Interim Executive Director of Heartland Alliance Health; and Jestine Ware, […]

Mobile Care Chicago received the 2022 Anne M. Davis Mobile Health Award and a $10,000 gift from VNA Foundation for its outstanding work delivering no-cost mobile medical and preventive care.

Photo: Jeanine Valrie Logan, CNM, MSN, MPH, CLCFounder, Chicago South Side Birth Center VNA Foundation continued its commitment to improving the health of women in metro Chicago by awarding early start-up funding at its December 2021 quarterly meeting to the […]

Take a closer look at our grantmaking for FY20, including details about our grantees, the populations they reach and the services they provide. Review lessons learned from our grantee partners, and read about some of our work in progress. 

Update March 11, 2021 Outcomes from the first year (FY 20) of this pilot program found that an estimated 2,400 individuals were positively impacted as a result of the services, and almost 60% of consultations with a MAVEN specialist resulted […]

Our world has changed dramatically in recent months, and VNA grantees that serve our most vulnerable communities have experienced tremendous hardship. During this difficult time we’ve been doing our best to listen, learn and help. Emergency Grants VNA responded to […]

After months of meeting with issue experts and convening peer funders to bring attention to Chicago’s unacceptable poor maternal health outcomes, VNA Foundation has awarded core funding to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality and support the health of women in […]

The Night Ministry received the 2019 Anne M. Davis Mobile Health Award and a $10,000 gift from the VNA Foundation for its outstanding work bringing free health care, supportive services and survival resources directly to Chicago’s homeless population through its […]

VNA Foundation presented its 2017 Anne M. Davis Mobile Health Award, along with a $10,000 gift, to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science’s Scholl Podiatric Care for the Underserved Program. The program offers free foot care to medically underserved […]

Beginning with her work on the Junior Board in 1962, and then as a member of the VNA Board of Directors from 1966 through 2009 (including two terms as Board Chair), Anne M. Davis set an unmatched example of service, […]