The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) has worked for over 30 years to improve the housing conditions of low-income households around the country. Through our direct services programs, advocacy, and policy development, we have worked to protect children and families from harmful health hazards that may be present in their homes, many of which … Continued
Today, in concert with numerous advocates and cities around the country, we celebrate National Energy Efficiency Day. A concept that began as a strategy to mitigate the effects of climate change, energy efficiency is the practice of reducing the amount of energy resources required to provide products and services. To reduce carbon emissions, individuals, communities, … Continued
GHHI is advancing a national cohort of projects looking at Pay for Success to fund healthy homes services. The model involves funding services such as remediating asthma triggers like mold or putting in home repairs to prevent falls through private sector investment. If those services lead to positive outcomes such as people not going to … Continued
Six award recipients to receive funding and technical assistance services for Pay for Success project development through a 2016 Social Innovation Fund award from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) has received funding for the second year of a three-year grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the result of a highly competitive open grant competition focused on reducing public exposure to indoor pollutants. This funding will allow GHHI to provide technical assistance to organizations in two … Continued
Krystal Myers is Program Manager for Aging in Place. A Baltimore Corps fellow, Krystal comes to GHHI proficient in developing and executing effective program strategies aimed at increasing awareness, educating, engaging, and generating a response to a call for action. She has worked as a Communications Strategist for the University of Maryland Medical System, served as … Continued
Kavya Sanghavi is the Senior Environmental Health Educator at Green and Healthy Homes Initiative. In this role, she works directly with families to identify unhealthy conditions in their homes and provides education on safe and healthy housing. Kavya has a diverse background as a former dentist and researcher in Mumbai, India. She graduated from Johns Hopkins … Continued
Victor Arthur serves as the Controller at GHHI. In this role, he oversees GHHI’s administrative, financial, accounting and risk management operations. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with more than 10 years of progressive finance and corporate accounting experience. As a seasoned finance and accounting professional with an entrepreneurial mind, Dr. Arthur has been … Continued
Adriane Harris is Senior Strategic Advisor for Client Services and Development. Ms. Harris leads business and national partnership development as the organization scales its innovative model with state and local jurisdictions across the United States. Ms. Harris most recently served as Director of the Office of Housing for the City of Nashville from 2015-2018 and was … Continued
Presence Health, working with community organizations, is completing a pilot program to address asthma triggers in patients’ own homes. Preliminary data suggests that the effort is resulting in better asthma control for patients.