HEFN currently supports funder collaboration in three particular areas:

• HEFN Catalysts for a Healthy Future is a funder collaborative to strengthen and align grantmaking in support of precautionary approaches towards chemicals and other environmental threats to health.
• Working Group on Environmental Health and Environmental Justice around environmental exposures, health disparities, capacity-building of low-income communities and communities of color.
• Working Group on Women and Environmental Health with interests both in environmental health issues of concern to women and in the roles of women in the environmental health movement.

Other Areas of Interest:

• Children’s environmental health and healthy schools.
• Integrity of science: a joint effort with other funder groups concerned about threats to the integrity of science on environmental health and other issues.
• Climate change, air quality, and health, including clean air standards and transitions from a “dirty energy” economy to clean energy.
• Key Communities, Constituencies, and Allies, including environmentally health-affected groups, health care professionals, labor, faith, industry