The Magnolia Project has served a section of “the Northwest Corridor” of Jacksonville, FL, providing reproductive and well-woman care and intensive case management to reduce infant mortality in the African American community for more than a quarter century. As a grantee of the Federal Healthy Start Program, the Magnolia Project must adhere to certain benchmarks concerning women’s health, strengthening families, and promoting system change. As with many U.S. Federal funded initiatives, these benchmarks are known to change over time. In this paper, we examine a snapshot from the 2019 to 2022 grant period to assess how the Magnolia Project fared with the federally required benchmarks.
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