Expected Does Not Mean Inevitable

Expected Does Not Mean Inevitable

As our dedicated 2012 Hartford Foundation annual report blog series followers know, our August 7 blog featured the creative team behind our award-winning annual report. Intrigued by their stories, we asked our annual report writer, Lynne Christensen, to tell us more about her experience writing about mental health and older…

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Award-Winning Stories: 2011 Hartford Annual Report

Award-Winning Stories: 2011 Hartford Annual Report

Last year I had the honor of announcing our first-ever Gold Award in the Vision Award Annual Report Competition sponsored by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) for our 2010 Hartford Annual Report. This year, I get to brag again. Our 2011 Hartford Annual Report focused on mental health…

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We Won!

We Won!

We are always proud of how our innovative and entrepreneurial grantees parlay work started with Foundation support into additional resources to improve the health of older adults (for example, in the CMMI Innovation Challenge program). Today, I am very proud to announce that in partnership with our long-time grantees at…

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Opening a New Chapter with the Social Innovation Fund

Opening a New Chapter with the Social Innovation Fund

Early last week, the John A. Hartford Foundation submitted our first ever grant application. We’ve always been the recipient of grant applications, so the process for us was new and exciting, and a terrific learning experience. It reflects a changing philanthropic landscape in which we operate, a new opportunity to…

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