Black Women’s Health Imperative Receives $400k Grant for Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign

The Black Girls’s Well being Crucial (BWHI) has acquired a $400,000 grant from the Rockefeller Basis to rollout their COVID-19 marketing campaign to enhance vaccination charges throughout the Black group.

As a part of The Rockefeller Basis’s $20 million Fairness-First Vaccination Initiative, the grant will assist BWHI’s present mission to extend entry to Covid-19 vaccinations in communities of coloration, Submit Information Group stories. Findings from the marketing campaign can be used to help cities throughout the nation with their rollout of the vaccine amongst individuals of coloration.

Funding for BWHI’s initiative works as a part of the nationwide north star’s aim of getting at the least 70 million individuals of coloration absolutely vaccinated by July 2023.

“All through the pandemic, the disparities in well being, financial, and social outcomes have been stark for Black ladies and their households,” stated Linda Goler Blount, President and CEO of the Black Girls’s Well being Crucial. “This grant will assist us equip Black ladies with science-based info in order that they’re empowered to coach their households, associates, and communities concerning the Covid-19 vaccines.”

By way of strategic partnerships with the Nationwide Caucus & Middle on Black Getting older (NCBA) and Nationwide Coalition of 100 Black Girls (NCBW), BWHI is about to launch a vaccine rollout and fairness initiatives in cities throughout the nation together with Baltimore, MD, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, Newark, NJ, and Oakland, CA.

“We’re dedicated to assembly individuals the place they’re as a way to take away limitations to vaccination, scale back hesitancy, and empower individuals to reside, work, and assemble with out worry,” stated Virginia W. Harris, NCBW Nationwide President.

Gamers throughout the WNBA will help the initiative through the use of their platforms to unfold vaccine consciousness and advocating for equitable entry.

“We’re excited to companion with Black Girls’s Well being Crucial to handle vaccine fairness in our communities,” stated Karyne Jones, President and CEO of NCBA. “African American adults 60 and over have been hardest hit by Covid-19. We need to be sure they perceive that vaccines are protected and efficient – and can allow them to get again to having fun with life with their households.”