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Meridian Health Plan of Illinois (NYSE:CNC) will provide a $1.15 million grant over three years to Food On The Move, the St. Louis Area Foodbank's mobile pantry program, to expand healthy food access across Illinois.

The grant will support more than 300 mobile market distributions across Metro East and Southern Illinois and aims to help the program serve an anticipated 60,000 community members by 2028. Meridian will also add health resources and begin select vaccine and screening services with local providers starting in 2026.

Health Net (NYSE: CNC) announced more than $1.4 million in 2025 investments to address rising food insecurity across California amid disruptions to CalFresh and other federal nutrition programs. Key actions include a $1.1 million grant to the California Association of Food Banks, targeted grants in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, and $105,000 in local investments across four counties to offset lost SNAP benefits. Health Net employees contributed 500+ volunteer hours, and the company supports the California Food is Medicine Coalition.

Coordinated Care (NYSE: CNC) announced it has provided over 18 million meals across Washington since 2020, including medically tailored meals and the member program Coordinated Care Harvest Bucks. The effort supports food access amid SNAP and WIC disruptions and aligns with partnerships with Second Harvest, Northwest Harvest, Emergency Food Network, Lifelong, FareStart and others.

Key program details: staff volunteer events (5,000 Bite2Go bags, 200 medically tailored meals, 7,000 lbs repacked pears), more than $13,000 raised at FareStart, and Harvest Bucks offering up to $100 per member per year for produce redeemable at Safeway with Washington State Department of Health support.

AcariaHealth (NYSE:CNC) completed three national educational events in October focused on the U.S. biosimilars landscape.

Collaborations with the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy, Reuters Events, and an AcariaHealth webinar delivered practical guidance on biosimilar adoption, patient access, and specialty pharmacy readiness. Sessions covered regulatory and market updates, communication tactics to reduce provider and patient hesitancy, substitution rules, payer dynamics, and workflow optimization. On‑demand recordings of all three programs are available.

Centene (NYSE: CNC) and Health Net announced a $1.1 million investment to the California Association of Food Banks to expand access to nutritious food in 12 California counties on Nov 20, 2025. The grant will fund expanded food distribution, emergency food response, and refrigerated trucks and cold storage to serve rural communities in Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kings, Madera, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne.

The funds will be allocated to 10 local food banks; the initiative prioritizes nutrient-dense foods and infrastructure to improve delivery. From 2020 to 2025, Health Net reported $247 million committed to community organizations.

Centene (NYSE: CNC) / Sunshine Health announced a $410,000 investment on Nov 19, 2025 to address food insecurity in Florida.

The package includes $300,000 in emergency funding to Farm Share to distribute at least 125,000 pounds of food (over 104,000 meals) and $110,000 allocated to local organizations across every Florida Medicaid region. The effort is part of a broader $1.5 million Centene Foundation commitment to food banks nationwide and follows Centene's $77.1 million investment in food security in 2024.

Buckeye Health Plan and the Centene Foundation (Centene Corporation, NYSE: CNC) announced a combined $200,000 investment to the Ohio Association of Food Banks to strengthen local food resources across Ohio.

The investment is part of a $1.5 million Centene Foundation commitment nationwide and follows broader Centene nutrition work, including $77.1 million invested in 2024 and nutrition programs in more than 95% of its Medicaid plans. The release cites USDA figures: 47.4 million people face food insecurity nationally, including 13.8 million children; in Ohio about 1.4 million people (≈12% of the state) receive SNAP benefits across 723,870 households.

Wellcare (NYSE: CNC) announced its 2026 Medicare offerings, expanding Medicare Advantage (MA) coverage to more than 51 million beneficiaries in 32 states and continuing Prescription Drug Plans (PDP) to over 8 million members nationwide. The company added 51 counties across eight states and will launch the first phase of an enhanced integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) model across eight states, with the transition of existing Medicare‑Medicaid Plans (MMPs) to integrated D-SNPs effective Jan 1, 2026.

Notable benefits include the Wellcare Spendables® card, a network of >60,000 pharmacies, an insulin cap of $35 or 25% (whichever is lower), $0 copays for many preventive services, and two PDP products (Classic and Value Script) offered in all regions.

Canada Nickel (TSXV: CNC) announced its flagship Crawford Project was referred to the Government of Canada's Major Projects Office following an announcement on November 13, 2025.

The company said referral aims to accelerate permitting and financing to target construction by end of 2026. Crawford is north of Timmins with direct access to power, road and rail, co-developed with First Nations partners, and advances one of the world's largest nickel reserves while producing nickel, cobalt and North America's only domestic chromium source.

An independent economic assessment estimates $70 billion GDP over the life of the mine and roughly 185,000 person-years of employment, including about 1,000 full-time and 3,000 indirect roles.