On August 29, 2026, a brand-new music festival called Daisy Chain Fields will bring joy, community, and live music to crowds — and its very first beneficiary is a team that has quietly worked for 35 years to close some of the deepest health gaps in America.
The festival, founded by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo, was built on a simple belief: that joy, creativity, and music can spark real social change. When her team went looking for organizations advancing women and girls, they found the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, based at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. Rodrigo herself was inspired by the Center's work and chose it as a beneficiary.
The numbers behind the partnership are striking. For 35 years, the Center has worked alongside Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities to build Indigenous-led solutions across the entire lifespan — improving health for women, children, families, and communities across the United States, plus global partnerships in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Indigenous communities face some of the nation's greatest health inequities, yet have seen significant underinvestment in philanthropy and limited public visibility for generations.
The money will support programs that touch every stage of life. Family Spirit sends Native American paraprofessionals into homes as Indigenous Family Health Coaches, offering in-home education, parenting support, and community connections during pregnancy and early childhood — now used in hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America. A Cancer Care Initiative improves breast cancer screening and early detection for Indigenous women. Vaccine programs create culturally tailored messaging to help pregnant women protect their newborns from serious diseases like RSV and whooping cough. And the Anishinaabe Canoe Migration Project reconnects Ojibwe women, girls, and nonbinary community members to water ceremonies, songs, language, and land- and water-based healing traditions in partnership with Heart Berry House.
The Center is also launching the nation's first Indigenous-focused Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program in 2026, alongside a new Indigenous concentration in the Master of Public Health — supporting Indigenous students from high school all the way through graduate education.
Behind it all is a message the Center carries with pride: "Her Strength Is Our Future." Across many Indigenous cultures, women are honored as the life force for generations to come. Supporting them, the Center says, strengthens families, communities, and the future itself.
For Rodrigo's team, the connection runs deep — a member had followed the Center's work since the COVID-19 pandemic and kept connecting philanthropists to its mission. Beyond the financial support, this partnership shines a spotlight on the strengths, resilience, and priorities of Indigenous communities. For a cause that has long been underfunded and overlooked, that visibility may be the most powerful gift of all.