About HATS - Sponsor

HATS was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline through its SHARE Awards Program during its first three-year cycle. The SHARE Awards program awarded money via its request for proposal process. A review committee of renowned North American figures chose the community-based organizations that the committee believed to be leaders in providing culturally-sensitive health care and/or access to health care services.

The SHARE Awards are administered by the University of Pennyslvania's Institute on Aging. St. Christopher House, a United Agency in Toronto, Canada, won the award in 2000 to continue and expand the use of the Action Theatre model for two years and to apply it to health promotion in general.