We are writing to share our 2025 accomplishments. We do so with deep gratitude to our partners, our funders, and the community groups who made this all possible. But first . . .
2025 was a year unlike any other. Like our partners, the communities we serve, and our broader ecosystem, we navigated profound risk, uncertainty, and harm. In that context, our values were not aspirational—they were operational. They shaped how we made decisions, where we showed up and spoke up, and what we chose to protect:
- Equity and justice: In late 2024, we reaffirmed our commitment to health equity and to racial justice. In 2025, we acted on that commitment by asserting an affirmative vision for what communities need to flourish—even as policy conditions moved in the opposite direction. We continued to center long-term, transformational change while responding to immediate threats, grounding our work in the belief that equity is not a principle to be stated but a responsibility to be carried forward, especially in hard moments.
- Interdependence: We have long recognized that everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing are mutually reliant on the health, safety, and wellbeing of others. In 2025, that understanding became a call to action. As systems, structures, protections, and funding were decimated, we acted in solidarity and stood with nonprofits, with the public health sector, and with communities that have been most marginalized. We doubled down on partnership, leaned into the ecosystem, and opted for collective action and protection.
- Dignity: We have been horrified by the pervasive dehumanization and intentional harm inflicted on immigrant communities, communities of color, and communities dependent on accessible social services and public benefits—to name a few examples. As this harm was compounded by simultaneous attacks on federal employees and the nonprofit and public health sectors, we committed to showing up differently—meeting this moment with care, solidarity, and respect for human dignity. When we shared our 2024 accomplishments, we said that in 2025 we would act with love in partnership. We did so by meeting communities where they were, working with mutual respect, and supporting their ability to heal and claim their own power in the current climate. In turn, learning from communities strengthened not only our Community-Centered Practice, but all of our work.
- Accountability: We remained accountable to the communities we partner with, our partners, our funders, and ourselves—sometimes by showing up in familiar ways, and sometimes by adapting. On the familiar side, we maintained strong fiscal stewardship, including another clean audit. We continued to prioritize transparency in our policy and advocacy work while recognizing that full visibility is not always safe in the current climate. We chose to be transparent about our boundaries as well as our actions, and we focused even more intentionally on our nonprofit hygiene amidst the growing threats to the sector. Finally, against the backdrop of sector-wide funding uncertainty, we decided to invest our unrestricted net assets in our own organizational stability so that we remain a steady, reliable force within the ecosystem when it is most needed.
Our 2025 accomplishments are organized by our 4 interrelated strategies:
- Community-Centered Practice: Partnering with communities in support of community-driven change.
- Practitioner Knowledge & Skill Building: Strengthening practitioner capacity to achieve equitable health, safety, and wellbeing.
- Policy & Systems Transformation: Changing policies and systems to produce equitable health, safety, and wellbeing.
- Momentum Building: Strengthening a prevention and health equity ecosystem while shifting fields, norms, and narratives.
The past year was difficult. We spent it leaning into our values and making strategic decisions to chart a path forward—showing up in the present even as we planned for what comes next, including shaping systems and narratives that serve communities that are most vulnerable. We know the year ahead will also be challenging. Our focus will be collective sustainability. For us that means standing in solidarity, showing up with community partners, staying grounded in impact for communities, and investing in a just and equitable ecosystem—now and in the future.
None of this would be possible without the generous support of our funders to whom we are deeply grateful. We are equally grateful to our partners and the communities that we work with and learn from. To all of you, your partnership will remain essential as we navigate 2026.
In solidarity,
Rachel A. Davis
Executive Director
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