In keeping with its focus on results, The Health Foundation has commissioned four evaluations which culminated in the Formative Evaluation Results, the Evaluation Report for The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts: Analyses of Their First Five Years of Grantmaking (2000-2005), the Evaluation Report for The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts: Analyses of Its First Ten Years of Grantmaking (2000-2010), and Insights on the Health Care and Health Promotion Synergy Initiative Model of Collaborative Problem-Solving.
These reports analyzed the impact of the Foundation’s three grant funding avenues: the Synergy Initiative, the Activation Fund and Board Designated grants.
An evaluation of the Foundation’s grantmaking concluded that the Foundation has made a positive impact on the region’s health, particularly by addressing oral health, mental health, homelessness, and hunger.
- The Practice of Evaluation Chapter 8 Empowerment Evaluation
- Insights on the Health Care and Health Promotion Synergy Initiative Model of Collaborative Problem-Solving (2018)
- Evaluation Report for The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts: Analyses of Its First Ten Years of Grantmaking (2000-2010)
- Evaluation Report for The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts: Analyses of Their First Five Years of Grantmaking (2000-2005)
- Formative Evaluation Results (2001)
“I consistently hold up The Health Foundation’s Synergy Initiative as the model for how foundations should go about promoting collaborative problem solving. – bringing rigorous program development and evaluation to groups that determine for themselves which issues they want to address.”
Dr. Doug Easterling, Professor, Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University