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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The Maine Health Access Foundation Announces New Strategic Framework for 2026 – 2031
Overview
Neither our mission nor vision changed in this process, and our values, while updated, continue to emphasize equity, integrity, and trust, as core to who we are and how we commit to doing our work.
We designed this new framework to be a flexible and adaptable guide for our actions over the next five years. This reflects our ongoing commitment to critically examining our own work and to trying to move in alignment with our partners as their needs and issues shift.
Our New Goals
With this context in mind, we have centered our framework on MeHAF’s unique role, and how we can maximize support for our partners through this chaotic environment. We built our framework around three goals:
- Enhanced Leadership
- More Effective Organizations
- Strengthened Connections
In short, these three goals will orient us toward supporting the health, capacity, resilience, and working relationships among individual leaders and nonprofit organizations in Maine.
Our work will continue to focus specifically on those who are advancing the cause of health access and health equity, and helping those leaders and organizations succeed.
Focusing on Healing and Transformation
There are two central themes that will guide how we approach these goals: Healing and Transformation.
Healing refers to work addressing the harms caused by health disparities. It includes everyday efforts to help people survive, access care, and build resilience within the inequitable world we are all living in.
Transformation refers to efforts to fundamentally shift the underlying policies, practices, and perceptions that create and perpetuate health disparities in the first place. These are efforts focused on shifting power to directly impacted people, and supporting their work to build more equitable systems for the long term.
With our new framework, we will look to support a mix of healing-centered and transformation-centered organizations. We will also strive to build connections and alignment across organizations and communities