Food Connection

Today we are highlighting Community Based Organization and Equity+ Network member NC Black Alliance! About the Organization The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) is working toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots networks on intersecting issues. These issues range […]

Today we are highlighting Community Based Organization and Equity+ Network member The Help Center NC! About the Organization The Help Center NC believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide emergency resources to support low-income, no-income and senior populations facing food insecurity. Our team is dedicated to addressing root causes of hunger and the […]

A funding opportunity for Improving Maternal Health Outcomes is available to Community Based Organizations from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). More information is available at: https://www.hrsa.gov/grants/find-funding/HRSA-23-084 

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will delay the implementation of the NC Medicaid Managed Care Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Tailored Plans. The launch was scheduled for April 1 and is now targeted for Oct. 1, 2023. Read More: https://www.ncdhhs.gov/press-releases

Rev. Dr. Dawn Baldwin Gibson still remembers when she was only four years old sitting at a nurse’s station in the hospital, while her mother was visiting with Gibson’s father, who wasdying of pancreatic cancer. “So much of the work that I do around health equity comes from that very early knowledge of how important […]

Yesenia Cuello may only be 30 years old, but she has a lifetime of experience to inform her work as Executive Director of NC FIELD, a non-profit working with farmworker youth, families, and H-2A guest workers by utilizing grassroots organizing principles to teach leadership, promote education, health and safety, and facilitate access to opportunities, including […]

Safe and affordable housing has always had a major impact on the life of Josie Williams, Executive Director of the Greensboro Housing Coalition. Williams spent her youth in an area many would consider not fit for children. “It was funny,” she says, “I was reading an article that described my old neighborhood, and it brought back […]

Care Share Health Alliance is excited to share a new series of articles on North Carolina’s BIPOC leaders working in the health equity space. Our first entry features Chester Williams, founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of A Better Chance, A Better Community. A Chance, a Better Community (ABC2) is an organization serving Northeastern North Carolina […]