2021 -2022 Fiscal Year Annual Report

Pandemic Refresh

As we all endured the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, we saw all around us the social implications that were affecting community health and well-being. Our work during the previous fiscal year instilled in us the need to be flexible and responsive to community need, and that ethos continued into this fiscal year (July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022). We also knew it was time to reassess and refine our priorities to better meet the changing environment. 

As the fiscal year began, Vitalyst started to re-evaluate its grants and programs to determine if changes needed to be made. We reflected on the previous 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, asked our Trustees and community partners statewide for feedback, and we listened.  

We reassessed if our programmatic priorities properly addressed the community’s needs. This process came in several stages: 

1. Vitalyst staff had guided conversations with a consultant and wrote a draft plan. 
2. This draft plan was presented in two community meetings with more than 60 partners. 
3. Vitalyst conducted our second Collaboration Continuum Survey to understand how stakeholders had changed their way of integrating health in their work. 
4. Feedback from the partner engagement was incorporated into Vitalyst’s Strategic Roadmap Refresh, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in February 2022. 

Between Vitalyst’s staff, partners and Trustees, a common set of answers emerged: 1) Siloed systems and organizations create inefficiencies and missed opportunities to improve community health; 2) Talented nonprofits are often hamstrung by limited capacity and resources; and 3) decision makers are often unaware of health-promoting solutions and/or lack the will to take action. These factors set the stage for Vitalyst’s three new goals:  

• Collaborative Networks working to improve the conditions that impact health.  
• Strong Community Partners equipped to advance health equity.  
• Informed Decision-Makers prioritizing community health and well-being.  

The Annual Report outlines the work Vitalyst and partners accomplished this fiscal year as part of this new framework.  

As you will read in the report, our partners worked very hard to improve the well-being of Arizonans. We wanted to learn more about our partners’ achievements, learnings, and common trends. You can dig deeper into what we learned in the Evaluation Report Fiscal Year 2021 – 2022.

View our audited financials here.

 

Joshua Peterson                                                Suzanne Pfister
Board Chair                                                         President and CEO