The Community Health Endowment (CHE) was formed in 1998 from the proceeds of the sale of Lincoln General Hospital by the City of Lincoln to Bryan Health. Since inception, CHE has reinvested more than $43.6 million back into the community in grants to support health related projects.
Community Conversations. CHE hosted several community conversations in 2023-2024. These are events that provide the public an opportunity to hear from expert panels regarding various topics, and to ask their burning questions. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a landmark public health advisory regarding the impact of social media on youth mental health. In April 2024, Dr. Murthy visited Lincoln to challenge our community to respond to this public health crisis. In May 2024, CHE hosted a follow up conversation “Youth Mental Health and Social Media Use in Lincoln” with local experts. Recordings of both events can be found on the CHE website.
Past events, as well as information regarding upcoming events, can be viewed on the CHE website. Stay up to date with CHE info and events by following them on Facebook and sign up to receive email updates.
Place Matters 5.0. How does where we live, learn, work, and play affect our health? The Community Health Endowment initiated the Place Matters community mapping project in 2015 to answer this question. By mapping factors such as poverty, access to healthy foods, life expectancy, and youth fitness, we can get a more complete picture of health in Lincoln. CHE, in partnership with the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, released the fifth rendition of Place Matters in September 2023. The maps are available in Spanish for the first time and can be found on the CHE website.
Funding. To achieve the vision of making Lincoln the healthiest community in the nation, the CHE Board of Trustees will make $3.1 million available in the 2024-25 fiscal year. Of this amount, over $700,000 will be available for new projects in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 funding cycles combined. Information about funding can be found on the CHE website.
