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FAQ: American Heart Association's 2026 Impact with Heart Recognition and Innovators Removing Health Care Barriers
TL;DR
The American Heart Association's Impact with Heart program offers innovators like Mammha and ThriveLink investment and coaching to scale solutions addressing cardiovascular health barriers.
The American Heart Association supports community health innovators through Social Impact Funds and the EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator with capital, coaching, and strategic guidance.
Mammha and ThriveLink are removing barriers to perinatal mental health care and essential program enrollment to improve cardiovascular health outcomes in diverse communities.
AI-powered voice technology from ThriveLink helps families enroll in Medicaid and food assistance by voice, overcoming internet and literacy hurdles.
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The article covers the American Heart Association's 2026 Impact with Heart recognition, which honors two community-focused innovators—Mammha and ThriveLink—for developing scalable solutions to remove barriers to health care and essential benefits, particularly in addressing cardiovascular health challenges.
It's significant because at least 6 in 10 U.S. adults are projected to have some form of cardiovascular disease, with related health care costs expected to triple by 2050, and heart disease and stroke already kill more than all forms of cancer combined annually.
The Association supports them through its Social Impact Funds, venture philanthropy program, and the EmPOWERED to Serve Business Accelerator™, providing investment capital, coaching, and strategic guidance to help ensure their success.
Mammha, based in Miami and led by CEO Maureen Fura, transforms perinatal mental health care with a text- and web-based platform for screening, referral, and treatment. ThriveLink, headquartered in St. Louis and led by CEO Kwamane Liddell, uses AI-powered voice technology to enroll families in essential programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and utility support.
The recognition was announced during annual honors on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in New York City.
Both Mammha and ThriveLink have programs that are available nationwide.
They address barriers such as access to coverage, transportation, nutritious food, stress-reducing support, internet and literacy hurdles, and paperwork complexities in health care applications.
ThriveLink removes internet and literacy hurdles by allowing people to complete complex applications by voice, reducing paperwork barriers and connecting families to life-changing resources like Medicaid, food assistance, and utility support.
The Social Impact Funds, part of American Heart Association Ventures, support for-profit and nonprofit organizations tackling key social drivers of health, such as health care access and quality, and have provided recent investment to accelerate ThriveLink's reach.
People should know that this initiative showcases scalable ideas to make health care and essential benefits easier to reach, aiming to change the future of health for everyone everywhere by removing barriers to care and improving lives through community-driven innovation.
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