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Access to timely ambulance service is an essential part of the emergency medical system. Yet ambulance access varies widely with significant gaps across the country. New research from the Maine Rural Health Research Center identifies places and people that are more than 25 minutes from an ambulance station, known as an ambulance desert. Without ambulance services nearby, these are dangerous areas to have an accident. More…

Beginning in August, MMF partners- the Missouri Foundation for Health and St. Louis Community Foundation- will be offering nonprofits in the St. Louis region a fully funded, year-long membership to Catchafire, a virtual capacity-building resource that saves organizations time and money. More…

From 2020-2022, researchers at UMSL worked alongside St. Louis City departments and the region’s largest home repair providers to shed light on a problem that, until now, has largely been hidden from public view: the enormous unmet need for home repairs for older adults in St. Louis. More…

Each year since FY2017, grantees submit their evaluation results in the Final Status Report following a 12-month grant, and those are aggregated into MMF’s Impact Dashboard. The Dashboard is shared with staff, Executive Council and Program Committee members, grantees, Ascension, and the larger community as well. More…

A poignant short video experiment breaking down barriers between recently-arrived refugees and Europeans was launched globally by Amnesty International in 2016. The lesson endures: "Borders exist between countries, not people." -Draginja Nadażdin More…