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    Creating a healthier world

    We work to promote better nutrition and physical activity, enhance health equity and advance innovations that enable better health.

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    Cultivating Healthy Communities

    The 2016 Cultivating Healthy Communities Request for Proposals (RFPs) closed on April 15, 2016. Notification of Stage 1 decisions will be given on May 13, 2016. To learn about past grant-funded projects, please visit our Recent Grants page.

     

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    Cultivating tomorrow's medical leaders

    We support scholars who will deliver quality care to people who critically need it.

    Read about our Scholars

What's New
ALERTThe Aetna Foundation, American Public Health Association and National Association of Counties Announce Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge Finalists
With Aetna Foundation Support, Urban Farming in Hartford Helps Locals, Growers Improve Their Lives
Co-Chairs Announced for 2016 Hartford Heart Walk -- Aetna Foundation President Garth Graham and Foundation Executive Director Lynn Ostrowski Will Chair
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How we make a difference

We have a vision for a healthier society and a strategic approach to change.

Learn about us and our funding approach

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Better health. Near and far.

Community grants and institutional partnerships designed to improve health – across neighborhoods and nations alike.

See how we work with our partners

What's New
ALERTThe Aetna Foundation, American Public Health Association and National Association of Counties Announce Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge Finalists
With Aetna Foundation Support, Urban Farming in Hartford Helps Locals, Growers Improve Their Lives
Co-Chairs Announced for 2016 Hartford Heart Walk -- Aetna Foundation President Garth Graham and Foundation Executive Director Lynn Ostrowski Will Chair
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