Dear Partners and Friends of Elevate:
As we approach the close of 2025, I want to take a moment—as executive director of Elevate and the MOMS Partnership® at Yale Child Study Center—to extend my deepest gratitude for your commitment, collaboration, and belief in what is possible when we come together to support mothers, families, and communities. Navigating challenges together, this year has been one of growth and momentum, made possible through our strong partnerships with you.
Together, we have expanded the reach and impact of MOMS programming, bringing evidence-based mental health and social and economic mobility supports to more mothers. A highlight of the year was the successful launch of the Baltimore MOMS PartnershipSM. Through partnership with leaders at the Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Employment Development and local organizations including Jeremiah Program Baltimore, Focus Point Behavioral Health, and The Adjacent Possible, mothers in Baltimore now have greater access to culturally-responsive, community-based mental health support. This milestone reflects not only program innovation, but a shared belief that mothers deserve resources that meet them where they are and honor their lived experience. We are so grateful to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Weinberg Foundation, and the Abell Foundation for supporting the launch of this work.
We also continued to strengthen programming across the MOMS Network, with our partners in New York City, Vermont, Maine, and the District of Columbia, Together, we adapted interventions for new populations of mothers, tested new MOMS delivery models, and expanded workforce pathways for community health workers—ensuring that those closest to the community are centered in the work. Our team has been energized by the commitment and expertise each of you brings, whether through research, delivery, policy, philanthropy, lived experience, or systems leadership. We are grateful to the Robin Hood Foundation and the John T. Gorman Foundation for their continued support.
As we look to the year ahead, we do so with excitement and purpose. In 2026, Elevate and MOMS will continue to scale access to maternal mental health supports and deepen our integration with systems that touch the lives of mothers every day. A signature goal for the coming year is advancing a “Superbundle” with our partners at the National Diaper Bank Network, the Urban Institute, and the New School Institute on Race, Power and the Political Economy.
The Superbundle takes a bold approach to improving maternal health, addressing root causes of inequities and offering a combination of powerful upstream solutions. The Superbundle will reduce maternal stress by meeting basic material needs and building skills for stress management and emotional regulation, provide income supports through cash transfers, and protect families from economic shocks experienced during the childbearing years through wealth-building strategies like baby bonds. We see this as a blueprint for bold, evidence-based social policy—one that has the potential to inform impactful changes at the state and national levels. We are currently raising funds for a first pilot in Vermont, in collaboration with the VT State Office of the Treasurer, to be launched in 2026.
In closing, thank you to all our partners and stakeholders—thank you for your trust, your ideas, your partnership, and your commitment to mothers. Our progress this year reflects what we can achieve together, and I am eager to continue building a future in which every mother has the support she deserves to thrive.
With warm appreciation and optimism for the year ahead,
Hilary Hahn
Executive Director
Elevate & The MOMS Partnership