About Us: Background — Environmental Health Fund

Environmental Health Fund, Inc. (EHF) was founded in October 1998 as a coordinating and fundraising organization dedicated to protecting public health against the introduction and proliferation of toxic chemicals in the global environment.

For over 10 years, EHF has been a central architect of new strategies in the field of environmental health. Our strategies have helped galvanize a thriving movement for safer chemical policies, safer products, green jobs, and sustainable markets. We are working to transform the chemical industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the planet.

We seek to:

Incubate and catalyze environmental health organizing campaigns, networks, and initiatives that build the power of the health and justice movement;
Support campaigns for safer chemical policies, markets for environmentally preferable products, and a new relationship between civil society and global corporations; and
Leverage resources for the health, capacity, and sustainability of the domestic and global environmental health movement.

EHF has co-founded several organizations, campaigns and collaborations that continue to serve critical functions in the developing environmental health and justice movement. Health Care Without Harm, Coming Clean, the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN), the PBDE Strategic Collaboration, The Dow Accountability Network, and the National Chemical Policy Campaign have forged important ground in building a more expansive and cohesive movement for chemicals reform.

EHF connects institutions working at the local level to those working globally, including grassroots groups in the United States and 100 other countries, state and federal government agencies in the U.S., and United Nations organizations including the UN Environment Programme, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the UN Industrial Development Organization. We connect local groups with policy groups at state, federal and international levels, and help these groups to influence public policy. We strive to leverage necessary financial and intellectual resources for NGOs working together to address environmental health threats around the world.


About Us Background Staff Profiles Board		Background Environmental Health Fund, Inc. (EHF) was founded in October 1998 as a coordinating and fundraising organization dedicated to protecting public health against the introduction and proliferation of toxic chemicals in the global environment. For over 10 years, EHF has been a central architect of new strategies in the field of environmental health. Our strategies have helped galvanize a thriving movement for safer chemical policies, safer products, green jobs, and sustainable markets. We are working to transform the chemical industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the planet. We seek to: Incubate and catalyze environmental health organizing campaigns, networks, and initiatives that build the power of the health and justice movement; Support campaigns for safer chemical policies, markets for environmentally preferable products, and a new relationship between civil society and global corporations; and Leverage resources for the health, capacity, and sustainability of the domestic and global environmental health movement. EHF has co-founded several organizations, campaigns and collaborations that continue to serve critical functions in the developing environmental health and justice movement. Health Care Without Harm, Coming Clean, the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN), the PBDE Strategic Collaboration, The Dow Accountability Network, and the National Chemical Policy Campaign have forged important ground in building a more expansive and cohesive movement for chemicals reform. EHF connects institutions working at the local level to those working globally, including grassroots groups in the United States and 100 other countries, state and federal government agencies in the U.S., and United Nations organizations including the UN Environment Programme, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the UN Industrial Development Organization. We connect local groups with policy groups at state, federal and international levels, and help these groups to influence public policy. We strive to leverage necessary financial and intellectual resources for NGOs working together to address environmental health threats around the world.