The Maine Health Access Foundation is the state’s largest private nonprofit health care foundation dedicated to promoting access to quality health care and improving health.
Many of our current programs focus on building the capacity of community-led organizations to create health outcomes that are more equitable for every person in Maine. Past and current grantees have helped to improve systems to address critical health needs, coverage, and access to quality care.
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Maine Health Access Foundation Announces New President and CEO Jake Grindle
Following a nationwide search, the Maine Health Access Foundation is pleased to announce its selection of Jake Grindle as the foundation’s new President and CEO.
In 2015, Jake joined MeHAF as a Program Associate where he ran both the Discretionary and Meeting Support Grant programs and provided technical assistance for community-based grantees. In 2016, he was promoted to Program Officer and launched MeHAF’s Health Equity Capacity Building (HECB) program, and took over running the longstanding Health Advocacy grantee cohort. The HECB program was one of a number of changes Jake would lead in developing more equity-focused work at MeHAF, both internally and externally. In 2020, Jake became a Senior Program Officer.
“I am a very lucky person to have the opportunity to learn from such an incredible community as we advance this collective effort together, and I am so excited at the prospect of doing it in this new role,” says Jake, who will start as President and CEO on January 1, 2025.
2024 Community Responsive Grants Program Awardees Announced
In November, MeHAF awarded $690,000 in funding for nine new Community Responsive Grants. These grants fund projects that are community identified and led to address barriers to achieving health equity. 2024 Grantees include Empowered Immigrant Women Unite; H.O.M.E., Inc.; Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County; In Her Presence; Maine Women’s Lobby Education Fund; Milestone Recovery; Niweskok; Opiate-Free Island Partnership; and Presente! Maine.
The diverse projects, which include both one- and two-year grants, cover health-related aspects of issues ranging from discovering gaps in palliative and hospice care, to developing a program to train community volunteers to recognize behaviors associated with substance abuse.
You can read about the individual projects by clicking here.