2023 Annual Report

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Over the past decade, Healthy Babies Bright Futures has funded innovative toxics reduction projects in 44 cities, tested more than 1,200 homes for lead in tap water, authored groundbreaking original reports, and built advocacy campaigns that have lowered the levels of lead and arsenic in the foods babies eat.

And while we didn’t continue to find significant sources of new funding, we did continue to succeed in our mission of finding measurable ways to reduce babies’ neurotoxic exposures. But we can’t stop there: there’s still so much work to be done.

Download the report here.

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