The first step to creating diverse healthcare opportunities begings with confronting the challenges that a community is facing, such as implicit biases and systemic racism.

The traditional approach in philanthropy often overlooks the importance of compensating community members for their contributions. This oversight not only undervalues their input but can also perpetuate systemic inequalities.

Black women experience cancer at significantly higher rates than their white counterparts, and the economic disparities are glaring. Closely working with the community using a trust-based philanthropy model uncovered the relationship between physical and economic health. How can we, in philanthropy, prevent Black women from getting caught in a vicious cycle of poor financial and physical health?

Root Cause Analysis helped us go beyond surface level problem solving. By asking “why” at each layer of an issue, we can delve deeper into the true origins of a complex challenge that moves us beyond superficial symptoms and uncovers the core factors at the foundation.

Access to quality health care is a fundamental determinant of health outcomes. Similarly, economic disparities have an equal and direct impact on accessibility to quality healthcare. In this blog, we discuss the web of socioeconomic factors and their role in shaping Black women’s experience navigating cancer.