SPECIAL INITIATIVES
In addition to the programmatic areas in substance use disorder, maternal health, cancer care equity, and community health training, The Kraft Center has also championed several special initiatives:
- In 2025, the Kraft Center launched of the inaugural Kraft Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Community Health. This national prize seeks to honor a transformative organization, program or innovation that is making a measurable impact on health outcomes and has the potential to become a scalable model for addressing community health. For more information click here.
- Launched in 2021 as part of a 3-van fleet, the Community Care Van offers clinical services and risk reduction services for cardiometabolic disease, substance use disorder, and COVID-19. Healthcare providers meet patients where they are, serving communities throughout the Greater Boston area. For more information, click here.
The Kraft Center will continue to seek support to further develop innovative community health solutions. We will bring together a wide-range of leaders from community health, social entrepreneurs, academia, public and private sectors and philanthropy to crowd source ideas and develop solution prototypes. Leveraging the network of community health centers, other health care providers, insurers and other local partners, we will pilot and evaluate the most promising solutions locally and make these solutions scalable and ready to spread.
To explore new collaborative programs with The Kraft Center, please contact us.