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CINCINNATI, October 14, 2025– Interact for Health has announced five organizations that will receive funding through the Advocacy Capacity Building grant, a cohort-based model that aims to support nonprofit organizations to strengthen their organizational culture, mindsets, and practices for local policy and advocacy efforts focused on the vital conditions for health and well-being — the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age, and the wider set of forces and systems that shape our daily lives.
The cohort will be led by Robin Wright-Pierce, MPA, Chief Executive Officer and Rev. Nelson Pierce Jr., Chief Political Strategist of Transforming Change, and will include both individual and group coaching, training, strategy development, and support.
“Advocacy allows nonprofit organizations to go beyond treating the symptoms of societal problems and instead move toward addressing the root causes,” said Robin Wright-Pierce. “By the end of the cohort, they will have developed robust, actionable, and community-centered policy agendas and strategies for change.”
The five organizations selected for funding will each receive $40,000 to address inequities, such as economic injustice, systemic racism, and other forms of marginalization that shape the experiences of some groups of people, leading to wide disparities between different places and the health of the people who live in them. These organizations are:
Imagine Cincinnati: From Play to Policy: Turning neighborhood care into advocacy for low-income families Imagine Cincinnati is rethinking parenting by creating supportive, connected spaces that nurture early learning, mental health, and community belonging. Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses: Community Leadership & Civic Muscle: From Participation to Power Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses is evolving its Community Ambassador Program into a resident-driven policy advocacy initiative, aiming to advance housing stability, safety, and equity in Cincinnati’s West End. Cincinnati Parent Empowerment Network (CPEN): Amplified — Educational Equity, Advocacy, and Policy Change The Cincinnati Parent Empowerment Network is shifting its focus toward parent-led policy advocacy to drive sustainable, long-term educational reform in Hamilton County’s five lowest-performing school districts. Black Women Cultivating Change: Building Culturally Responsive Black Mental Health Advocacy Black Women Cultivating Change is working to champion mental health equity for the Black community in Greater Cincinnati through community-driven policy advocacy. Kentucky Refugee Ministries: Northern Kentucky Language Access Advocacy Kentucky Refugee Ministries – Covington is launching a policy strategy to improve language access across Northern Kentucky, ensuring refugees and other displaced individuals can equitably navigate essential services like healthcare, education, and public benefits.
About Interact for Health Interact for Health works to ensure that people in our region have a just opportunity to live their healthiest lives, regardless of who they are or where they live. We advance health justice through grantmaking, collaboration, learning, convening, and engagement. Interact for Health is an independent foundation that works in 20 counties in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. More information is available at www.interactforhealth.org.
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