In February, 2018, Idaho lawmakers came together for a common cause – the Steps for Schools Walking Challenge. For the fourth year in a row, Idaho’s senators, members of the… Read more »
Steps for Schools: Walking 10 Million Steps
Stories of Impact
KTVB Viewpoint: Grants Aim to Transform Communities
In late January, the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation’s executive director Kendra Witt-Doyle joined Nampa mayor Debbie Kling and KTVB’s Doug Petcash to discuss the Community Transformation Grants and how… Read more »
2017: A Year In Transformation
At the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation we are driven by our mission to bring transformation through engagement and collaboration. That is a lofty goal, but in 2017 we saw… Read more »
Entrepreneurship: It Isn’t Just for Business Anymore
Most of us have grown up thinking of entrepreneurship as strictly the domain of businesspeople: someone has an idea, invests their hard-earned dollars (or someone else’s), works to make it… Read more »
Walking the Walk: Idaho Mayors Gather to Learn
Some things you can learn from a book. Other things are best experienced first-hand. For participants in the 2017-2018 Community Health Champions Learning Collaborative, that meant a bit of class… Read more »
Mayors Talk About Their 2017 Walking Challenge
In 2017 mayors across Idaho woke up early, put on their shoes and walked for their communities. We met up with a few of them and asked a few questions,… Read more »
Asking the “Why?”
Anyone who has children, or even watched children, knows that at a young age the “why” questions begin. Consider a “why dialogue” I had recently with my five-year-old son, Finn:… Read more »
Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Overview
Kendra Witt-Doyle, the executive director for the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health and past board chair Dr. Rhonda Robinson Beale, discuss the work and goals of the foundation… Read more »