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The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1,967,500 in grants to 50 community organizations in Massachusetts whose missions include promoting the health care needs of uninsured and low-income residents. The grants, which range from $20,000 to $75,000, will be used to fund a range of activities that promote access to coverage and care.

 Eleven medical journalists from across the nation today are being named to the 2011 class of the Health Coverage Fellowship.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has launched an online resource dedicated entirely to Massachusetts health reform. The new website offers the most thorough and accurate picture to-date of what the state's groundbreaking health reform law does, how it is working, and what still remains to be done. In its fifth year of implementation, Massachusetts health reform remains a resounding success, resulting in the coverage of nearly 400,000 newly insured Commonwealth residents and serving as a model for national health reform. The new site is the first comprehensive clearinghouse of resources on Massachusetts health reform. It captures the unique accomplishments of the law, the work of stakeholders across the state to realize and sustain reform, and the implications of the Massachusetts experience for national health reform.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1.25 million in grants to 11 coalitions around the Commonwealth to address health care disparities. Each coalition will receive $113,636.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1,205,000 in grants to 24 community organizations in Massachusetts whose missions are dedicated to promoting the health care needs of uninsured and low-income residents. The grants range from $40,000 to $75,000 per year, and represent the first of two years of funding.