Nourishing Healthier Pregnancies: Project Angel Heart Receives $150,000 Grant from Telligen Community Initiative

Project Angel Heart is honored and grateful for a $150,000 grant from Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) to prepare and home-deliver medically tailored meals to neighbors experiencing high-risk pregnancies.

The funding, part of TCI’s Strengthening Families and Communities program, will support our efforts to deliver 63,000 meals to more than 700 pregnant clients and their dependent children.

“Funding from Telligen Community Initiative will help us provide medically tailored meals to pregnant clients with complex health needs,” said Project Angel Heart President and CEO Dr. Marti Macchi, DrPH, MPH, MEd. “Understanding how nutrition can strengthen care during pregnancy is key to improving outcomes for families. We are grateful for Telligen Community Initiative’s commitment to innovative solutions that help people live healthier lives.”

“We are proud to support Project Angel Heart’s innovative work to improve maternal health through medically tailored meals,” said Matt McGarvey, executive director of Telligen Community Initiative. “By addressing nutrition during high-risk pregnancies, this effort supports healthier outcomes for families and demonstrates the power of community-driven solutions to meet complex health needs.”

Beyond providing meals, TCI’s grant also supports a qualitative evaluation to help us learn, more broadly and directly from those served, how our meals improved their health and well-being, and where we can improve. By pairing meal delivery with evaluation, Project Angel Heart is not only able to meet immediate needs, but also to build knowledge to help shape even stronger care in the future.

We’re grateful to Telligen Community Initiative for their partnership and belief in this work.

Read about Alyssa, one of the first clients Project Angel Heart served who was experiencing a high-risk pregnancy.