LISC’s Health Access Fund is helping people who face barriers to transportation get to and from the places that contribute to their health and wellbeing by providing free access to non-emergency medical transportation in partnership with Uber. To date, 23 organizations supported by the Health Access Fund have booked close to 320,000 Uber rides for people in 23 states. Learn more about the individuals and organizations impacted by our work together.

LISC’s Health Access Fund helps people living on low incomes, in rural and urban places, get to and from the destinations that play into their health and well being, from doctor's appointments to social service centers to the grocery store. Last year, with support from Uber, PayPal, and Walgreens, that amounted to 137,000 rides, helping upend a host of barriers to accessing healthcare and essential services.

An article in QCity Metro describes the life-changing impact of LISC and Uber's partnership, the Health Access Fund, offering free rides to medical and other appointments that contribute to health and wellbeing. In Charlotte, NC, as in other cities where the Fund operates, rides are coordinated through locally rooted groups like Care Ring, a 70-year-old community organization that since March has been able to offer 2,600 rides to primary and specialist care appointments, food access points, case management meetings and much more.

LISC, Uber Eats, Visa and Streetsense

The first two years of the pandemic have required more flexibility and innovation within the restaurant industry than ever before. A new toolkit from LISC – developed in partnership with Uber Eats, Visa and Streetsense – offers restauranteurs some tips for tackling the wide range of situations they come across, especially in the current climate.

LISC is a partner in Grants for Growth, a new $1 million grant program announced by Uber and Visa. Grants for Growth will provide $10,000 grants to 100 restaurants in 10 U.S. cities that are currently active on Uber Eats. LISC will administer the grant program, which will bring much needed relief to restaurants challenged by COVID-19, natural disasters and other unexpected events.

Last year, Uber, Paypal, Walgreens and LISC teamed up to supply free rides to COVID vaccine appointments for people with barriers to transportation via an $11 million fund. Those rides have not only expanded vaccine access to underserved residents, they have turned out to be a vehicle to broader vaccine education and wellbeing.

As part of their worldwide vaccine access campaign, Vax Because, Global Citizen invited LISC CEO Lisa Glover and Uber's global head of social impact Julia Paige to discuss their $11 million Vaccine Access Fund, designed to upend barriers to transportation to vaccination sites—barriers that primarily affect undeserved communities of color. Said Glover in the video interview, together with Uber, “we can deliver the resources to our partners that are trusted on the ground, and they can work with their communities to get the transportation needs met.”

LISC, PayPal, Uber and Walgreens have announced the launch of their new Vaccine Access Fund, which allows customers to donate to vaccine access efforts to help connect people without transportation to COVID-19 vaccination sites, particularly those in underserved communities. Customers can donate to the Vaccine Access Fund directly through the Uber app using a new donate feature supported by PayPal Giving Fund.

By Lisa L. Glover, Interim LISC President and CEO

In a blog describing the new $11 million Vaccine Access Fund, a partnership of LISC, Uber, Paypal and Walgreens, LISC's Interim President & CEO Lisa L. Glover details how the fund tackles more than the transportation gap that is keeping tens of thousands of Americans from accessing COVID-19 vaccines. "The fund offers a practical solution to an immediate problem," writes Glover. "But this is absolutely part of our larger efforts to address equity as well."

In a letter to the Biden-Harris Administration, which has called for corporate America to help in the fight to end the pandemic, the CEOs of Uber, Paypal, Walgreens and LISC announced a new Vaccine Access Fund that will connect people with free rides to COVID-19 vaccine sites. LISC will administer the fund, helping close the gap for thousands of people, many of them seniors and others living in under-resourced communities, who have not been vaccinated yet because of lack of transportation.