Abounding Prosperity CEO Kirk Myers The Dallas-based non-profit to immediately increase vaccination efforts in underserved communities Abounding Prosperity, Inc.
has just been awarded $1 million by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ramp up efforts to get more people in underserved communities vaccinated against COVID-19.
The grant to APInc. was among more than 100 awards from HHS to “trusted community-based” organizations. In Dallas County alone, COVID-19 was the top cause of death for all populations.
Nearly 75% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were among Black and Latinocommunities. As of May, before the Delta variant surge, more than 84% of Black people in the county had not been