In the News

Here are some of the most recent articles about the Challenge: 

• 20 U.S. Cities and Counties Pledge to Improve Local Systems and Policies to Advance Health Equity with $2 Million in Grants from the Aetna Foundation

Catch up on what each of the 20 communities are working on: 

Cities: 

• Wheeling, Others Awarded $100,000 Aetna Foundation Grant
• Agencies in Wheeling partner to encourage healthy living for kids
• Coronavirus notebook: More retail chains require masks; Cher postpones; Metro driver 'positive'
• Huge grant helps Old Brooklyn get healthy
• Baldwin Wallace, MetroHealth Partner for Healthy Cities and Counties Challenge
• Cleveland schools levy renewal, increase to appear on November ballot
• OC Health Department receives $50,000 Aetna Foundation grant
• $100K grant aims to advance health equity in Rochester
• Rochester seeks ideas for new citizen-led food policy council
• We ask local leaders how COVID-19 may change us ... for the better?
• New grant aimed at fighting, solving food insecurity in Cincinnati

Counties: 

• Dougherty County to receive Aetna Foundation grant
• Dougherty Co. gets ‘healthiest county’ grant
• DOCO, Flint River Fresh, UGA Extension receives $10k grant for health equity
• WVSOM and other partners receive grant
• Perry County receives Aetna Foundation grant for food security, healthy eating
• The Health Foundation and partners awarded $100,000 Aetna Foundation grant to advance health equity in Wilkes County
• Health Foundation receives $100,000 grant to participate in health equity challenge