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Shaking the Foundation - Blog

Empowering Black Men through Social Media

This week, we're featuring African American men on the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health) blog, and who better to kick off the week than Brandon Frame? Brandon is Director of Business Partnerships at High School, Inc. (right around the corner from us in Hartford) and Chief Visionary Officer of … more >

November 29, 2011

My Brain is Full! (An Update on the Health Insurance Exchange Board)

Today's post was written by Monette Goodrich, Vice President of Communications & Public Affairs. Research is the first step in the development of the health insurance exchange in Connecticut. The Arizona-based consultant outlined its 11 research “tasks” during Thursday’s meeting of the … more >

November 22, 2011

Bridging the Program-Communications Divide

Our own Program Officer, Ben Rodriguez, is a guest blogger for the Communications Network today with his post, " Getting Beyond the Mars-Venus (Program Communications) Divide ." In this post, Ben brings a program officer's perspective to the conversation Communications Network members have been having for … more >

November 21, 2011

Comparing Apples to Apples

Surveys usually ask us, the respondents, to provide a little information about ourselves, including demographic information. The goal is for the survey researchers to investigate trends within broad categories, including racial and ethnic demographics. When it comes to surveys about health, those … more >

November 17, 2011

Five Lessons from Implementing SharePoint

Today's post was written by our Vice President of Finance & Operations, Carol Pollack. A year ago, we started thinking about improving “how” we did our work. Could we enhance our processes or our tools to make us more efficient and effective? To answer this question, we undertook an … more >

November 15, 2011