Fostering Emerging Institutes Project

NNPHI Announces Funding to Support Emerging Public Health Institutes

The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has awarded grants to six emerging public health institutes to build capacity and address challenges facing the public health system.

The funding will enable the six institutes – the Florida Public Health Institute, Healthy Appalachia Institute, Institute for Public Health Innovation, Rhode Island Public Health Institute, South Carolina Public Health Institute and the Tennessee Institute for Public Health – to undertake a range of activities intended to cultivate partnerships, enhance executive leadership and build the capacity to inform health policy.

To learn more, Please visit the March 23, 2010 Press Release Here!

Keys to Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership

Entrepreneurial Leadership has been identified through the Fostering Emerging Institutes Project as an important component to the success of an institute. The ability to take risks, work between boundaries and leverage resources are all valuable tools for leaders in the creation of a public health institute. To view a definition and the characteristics of social entrepreneurs, please click here

Sustainability Curriculum: 2007-2009

A series of webinars was created for the grantees of the Matching Grant Program, April 2007- March 2009.  This series was based on the Georgia Health Policy Center’s recommendations for a sustainability curriculum that would promote sound organizational development among emerging institutes.  Topics included Foundation Funding, Emotional Intelligence, Evaluation Tied to Return on Investment, Communication for Multiple Stakeholders, among others. Click here to access the materials, such as summaries, MP3 recordings and the Power Point slides for these webinars.

About FEIP

NNPHI’s Fostering Emerging Institutes Project is designed to help emerging public health institutes operate with heightened efficiency and direction, benefiting from lessons learned by the existing members of NNPHI. NNPHI provides technical assistance and offers a mentoring network to staff and boards of emerging public health institutes so that they are able to carry out their roles with greater skills and confidence.

Primary areas of work include:

• strategic planning
• board development
• the 501©3 application process
• resource development and budgets

• program development

NNPHI provides technical assistance to emerging public health institutes through a number of venues, including:

• comprehensive needs assessments conducted via telephone interviews
• educational sessions at the NNPHI annual conference
• educational group teleconferences
• individual consulting and referrals
• Guide for Emerging Public Health Institutes (published in Fall, 2004)
• pairing with mentors from established public health institutes

• facilitating site visits to established public health institutes

This project is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Please contact Erin Marziale(emarziale@nnphi.org or 504-301-9823) for more information.