Who We Are

History

ISHI is a group of healthcare providers, public health practitioners, CBOs, residents, and community members.

We recognize that housing and health are connected, housing instability is associated with poor health, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and obesity as well as increased anxiety, depression, and psychological distress.

HRiA

Health Resources in Action (HRiA) has a longstanding history of advancing health and racial equity by challenging assumptions about what promotes and hinders health, creating and sustaining authentic engagement, and building capacity to correct power imbalances. Within our Community Health Grantmaking cluster, we create and lead grantmaking efforts rooted in community engagement and based on core principles of participatory grantmaking.

People

ISHI administrative and grants management is led by HRiA with community engagement support from Boston Ujima Project and evaluation support from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC).

Jamiah Tappin
ISHI Staff

Edgar Duran-Elmudesi
ISHI Staff

Edward Alexander
ISHI Staff

ISHI’s current iteration is the result of several rounds of learning, testing, problem-solving, and co-creation. These decisions were made with a Planning Committee, Advisory Council, and Leadership Committee, all of which included membership from funders, grantees, local experts, and other engaged residents.

Past Grantees

While ISHI is not currently accepting new grantees, we learned a lot from and continue to support our past and current grantees. Below is a list of grantees by the fund they were a part of.

Flex Fund

Upstream Fund

The Upstream Fund funded projects that created coalitions of organizations to work on systems-level change to address the housing crisis. As such, the projects funded are not single entities like those funded in the Flex Fund. The lead organization of each project and several affiliated groups are listed below.