Blog Post
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
“We believe funders are game changers; we have a significant opportunity to change the health care landscape,” said Rick Ybarra, program officer for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, located in Austin, Texas. Ybarra, together with Octavio Martinez, executive director of the Hogg Foundation, and Enrique Mata, senior program officer for Paso del Norte Health Foundation, located in El Paso, Texas, met with three dozen foundation leaders in early November during Philanthropy Southwest’s 2014 Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The panelists sought to show funders how their differing efforts, ranging from small to large in scope, can add up to help eliminate mental health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.