WellPoint Foundation

The WellPoint Foundation is committed to addressing health disparities and improving public health across the country. Through its Healthy Generations grant program, the WellPoint Foundation works to identify and address the public health issues most in need of attention. Increasingly, its efforts are focused on the serious health problems caused by inactive lifestyles and skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity.

In 2011, the WellPoint Foundation awarded several significant grants to improve the health of young people, including a three-year, $5 million grant to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Triple Play program, and a two-year, $2.7 million grant to bring the OASIS Institute’s CATCH Healthy Habits wellness program to 18 locations in 14 states.

Other national and local grants by the WellPoint Foundation are helping to provide prenatal care in the first trimester, reduce rates of heart-related deaths, promote healthy lifestyles, prevent adult diabetes, provide adult vaccinations against flu and pneumonia, and help people stop smoking.

The WellPoint Foundation also coordinates the company’s annual Associate Giving Campaign. Backed by a 50 percent match from the Foundation, WellPoint associates pledged more than $6.8 million to six public health charities in 2011.