The Commonwealth Fund
Organization URL(s)
cmwf@cmwf.orgwww.commonwealthfund.org
Other Contact Information
One East 75th Street
New York,
NY 10021-2692
212-606-3800 (Voice)
212-606-3500 (FAX)
Description
The Commonwealth Fund is a philanthropic foundation established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good. The Fund carries out this mandate through its efforts to help Americans live healthy and productive lives and to assist specific groups with serious and neglected problems. The Fund's current four national program areas are improving health care services, bettering the health of minority Americans, advancing the well-being of elderly people, and developing the capacities of children and young people. The fund's international program in health policy seeks to build a network of policy-oriented health care researchers whose multinational experience and outlook stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. In its own community, the Fund makes grants toward improving public spaces and services.