Ardmore Institute of Health Announces Spring 2026 Grant Recipients

Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) is delighted to announce its Spring 2026 grant recipients. Through grant-making, AIH partners with mission-aligned organizations by funding innovative projects that support AIH's strategic objectives.

This spring, AIH awarded $1,381,237 across 9 projects that will help advance our vision: a future where healthcare and communities support whole person care, and healthy choices are accessible and effective in preventing, treating, and reversing chronic disease.

Click the links below to learn more about each project.

1. 4Roots Foundation: Culinary Health Institute – Lifestyle Medicine Collaboration

2. American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation: Whole Health Primary Care Practice Implementation Playbook

3. City of Laredo Public Health Department: Vida Plena (Full Life): Laredo Lifestyle Medicine Consortium

4. Massachusetts General Hospital: Scaling Food-As-Health: A Whole Family Plant-Based Approach

5. National Academy of Sciences: Whole Person Primary Care: A New Paradigm for Chronic Conditions

6. Patient-Centered Primary Care Foundation: How Primary Care Can Support Whole Person Care and Behavior Change (Year 3)

7. Think Regeneration: Tucson Family Food Project Food-is-Medicine Pilot

8. Tufts University: Catalyzing Family-Based Weight Wellness Treatment through Food is Medicine and Group Medical Visits in Pediatric and Adult Primary Care

9. UI Health Mile Square Health Center: HEAL (Healthy Eating, Activity & Lifestyle) Collaborative: A Community-Based Lifestyle Medicine Expansion for Underserved Populations

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