Support Local Journalism Your membership makes our reporting possible. {{featured_button_text}}He said the Foundation, which will consider a name change in the coming months after it ends its contract with NAH, will now be able to expand its “philanthropic footprint” by increasing efforts to raise funds for northern Arizona communities through foundations and state and federal entities. “Community health has become even more prevalent over the last few months with COVID-19 hanging over our heads. Folks are needing things like behavioral health, food, medicine — all these things that are necessary,” Smith said. NAH officials have referred to their new internal nonprofit as a development office that will fund new facilities and programs to improve services and attract new providers, an effort that “will require a higher level of major gifts” than ever before, according to a press release.

Source: Daily Sun January 01, 2021 01:30 UTC