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Healthy Futures Solution Fund

The Family Van mobile health clinic, a bright turquoise van with colorful graphics advertising free health screenings, parked on an urban street with a smiling driver visible through the window.
The Family Van, a recipient of the Health Futures Solutions Fund, improves healthcare access by partnering with underserved Boston communities.

In 2025, Sanofi launched the Healthy Futures Solution Fund with a commitment to support trusted community-led organizations working to address the conditions that shape health and well-being across Massachusetts’ under-supported communities. Today, the Fund’s first-year results demonstrate what can happen when organizations closest to their communities are given the support and flexibility to lead.

Health doesn’t start in the clinic. Through our strategic support, 13 nonprofit partners have responded to evolving community needs across food and hygiene insecurity, housing, transportation and access to care, turning local knowledge into meaningful impact for patients and families across Massachusetts.

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Healthy Futures Solution Fund at a Glance

$1.1M+

Invested in community-based health equity programs

13

Long-term nonprofit partners across Massachusetts

11,000+

People directly reached through programs and services supported by Sanofi in the first year

Healthy Futures Solution Fund in Action

Four people inside a mobile health van during a community health screening.
Preventive health screenings taking place inside a mobile health van serving Greater Boston and surrounding communities.

The Family Van

  • Focus: Mobile community health services that deliver preventive health screenings, health education, and referrals in Greater Boston communities.
  • Year One Impact: The Family Van experienced substantial growth in both reach and impact, resulting in a 33% increase over the prior year, conducting over 3,055 health encounters, servicing over 1,778 clients, and providing over 5,600 comprehensive preventive health screenings.
A Community Servings team member stands beside a branded delivery van with bags of prepared meals ready for delivery.
Community Servings delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals to individuals and families managing critical and chronic illnesses.

Community Servings

  • Focus: Provides medically tailored meals (MTMs), designed by registered dietitians to support individuals living with serious illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and diabetes.
  • Year One Impact: With support from Sanofi, Community Servings reduced its Food Is Medicine program waitlist by one-third, down to approximately 100 patients, and delivered more than 10,000 medically tailored meals to new clients.
Sanofi’s Healthy Futures Solution Fund exemplifies the best of nonprofit-corporate partnership. Sanofi’s flexible support has helped Community Servings reduce our waitlist and expand access to medically tailored nutrition for people living with critical or chronic illness and nutrition insecurity. We value Sanofi’s partnership and commitment to building healthier, more equitable communities—through both philanthropic support and employees who volunteer alongside us.
David B. Waters

David B. Waters

CEO, Community Servings

A healthcare provider speaks with a young child seated on an exam table in a clinical setting.
Boston Children’s Hospital’s Healthy in the City program supports community-based efforts to improve health and well-being for children and families.

Boston Children’s Hospital - Healthy in the City

  • Focus: Boston Children’s Hospital’s Healthy in the City provides Boston families with the tools and resources needed to live healthy and active lives. It is also designed to help motivate families to set goals and participate in fitness and nutrition activities.
  • Year One Impact: 1,042 children enrolled at 10 community health centers. Over one year, 50% of participants decreased their BMI; an additional 4% maintained their BMI — a meaningful outcome given the upward trajectory prior to intervention.

 

Thanks to the Sanofi grant, I've been able to provide small but meaningful items: water bottles, jump ropes, yoga mats, soccer balls -- all from our supply closet based on each child's interests. These little things make a big impact.
Kristin McLaughlin

Kristin McLaughlin

Corporate Relations Officer at Boston Children's Hospital

A young patient in a hospital bed smiles alongside four adults in a hospital room.
A patient and family receive support through Hospitality Homes while traveling to Boston for medical care.

Hospitality Homes

  • Focus: Matches out-of-town patients with volunteer host homes and donated apartments, finding patients and their caregivers a place to stay during their medical treatment. They host people from all over the country and the world, enabling them to receive the care they need – from some of the best medical providers in the world in Boston.
  • Year One Impact: 133 families directly impacted; 515 nights of housing. This work supported alternative lodging options, including corporate apartments and discounted hotels, for patients who are unable to stay with volunteer hosts because of medical needs, cultural or language considerations, or longer stays.
Sanofi’s support has helped Hospitality Homes provide safe, affordable lodging for patients and families who must travel to Boston for specialized medical care. By helping remove the burden of where to stay, this partnership allows families to focus on what matters most, their health and being together during an incredibly challenging time. We are so grateful to Sanofi for recognizing that access to housing is an important part of access to healthcare.
Debbie Pepper

Debbie Pepper

Executive Director, Hospitality Homes

Healthy Waltham volunteers distribute fresh produce to community members at an outdoor food distribution event.
Healthy Waltham connects community members with fresh, nutritious food and other resources that support health and well-being.

Healthy Waltham

  • Focus: Healthy Waltham works to address food insecurity in the Waltham community through its food pantry and evolving Community Market model, helping families access fresh, nutritious food.
  • Year One Impact: With support from Sanofi, Healthy Waltham expanded its food pantry operations and continued developing its new Community Market model to better respond to evolving community needs. The organization is also providing direct home delivery to families who face barriers to accessing the pantry, with plans to expand this service as the Community Market reaches full capacity.
Healthy Waltham has been dedicated to serving communities around Massachusetts for many years, and the work that we do would not be possible without the support of Sanofi. When things became harder for our pantry patrons Sanofi helped us stand up to the challenge. This partnership has helped put food directly on our most vulnerable neighbors’ tables, and for that Healthy Waltham, and the community at large, are forever grateful.
Chukwuemeka (BJ) Osuagwu

Chukwuemeka (BJ) Osuagwu

Executive Director, Hospitality Homes

A woman wearing a graduation cap and sash holds a framed certificate of achievement outdoors.
A St. Mary’s Center for Women & Children participant celebrates an educational achievement.

St. Mary's Center for Women & Children

  • Focus: Through housing, education and workforce development, life skills, behavioral health and family medicine, St. Mary’s Center helps families build greater stability and a path toward long-term economic independence.
  • Year One Impact: Supported approximately six families transitioning to independent housing, 22 behavioral health sessions, five clinical group sessions, six children under age five accessing daycare, and helped five heads of household in education or workforce programming.
Over the past year, we have been so grateful to continue this incredible partnership with Sanofi through the Healthy Futures Solution Fund. Sanofi is a leader in health equity, promoting the work of mission-driven organizations like St. Mary’s Center and investing in behavioral health and supportive services for those experiencing deep poverty and homelessness. Their continued investment in our work has supported 478 women, children and families experiencing homelessness in our Dorchester community with critical services to break multigenerational poverty and homelessness.
Alexis Steel

Alexis Steel

President, St. Mary’s Center for Women & Children

Meet All Healthy Futures Solution Fund Grant Recipients

The Healthy Futures Solution Fund supports 13 nonprofit organizations working to address barriers to health and well-being across Massachusetts. In addition to the partner stories highlighted above, the Fund’s grant recipients include:

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The Family Van mobile health unit, a Harvard Medical School program, parked in a community neighborhood offering free health screenings and outreach services.

Building on a Legacy of Community Impact in Boston

One year into the Healthy Futures Solution Fund, Sanofi’s community partners across Massachusetts are showing what’s possible when local organizations have the resources and flexibility to address the health needs they know best.

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