Strategic Thinking for Health Funders

2012

• Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field
  July 24, 2012
  Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field is an exploration of grantmaking options to support health equity goals. Strategies discussed describe opportunities for intervening along a continuum of upstream and downstream approaches to address health disparities.
  
  Striving for Health Equity July 2012
  
  
  Striving for Health Equity Executive Summary July 2012
  
  Subject Areas: Disparities

• Better Outcomes, Lower Costs: How Community-Based Funders Can Transform U.S. Health Care
  April 4, 2012
  In a newly available document from FSG, published in association with GIH, Mark Kramer and Dr. Atul Gawande discuss the untapped potential for community-based funders to transform the cost and quality of health care in the United States.
  
  Better Outcomes, Lower Costs 4-2012
  
  Subject Areas: Health Reform

• Transforming Health Care Delivery: Why It Matters and What It Will Take
  March 7, 2012
  Transforming health care delivery so as to better meet the needs of patients will require changes to strengthen delivery of care for patients who already have good access to services, as well as changes to improve care for patients who find it harder to get the care they need. This primer provides an overview of why system transformation matters, what it will take, and what philanthropy can do.
  
  Transforming Health Care Delivery (A Primer), March 2012
  
  Subject Areas: Health Reform, Quality

2011

• Guide to Impact Investing
  April 29, 2011
  This guide provides a framework to help funders think strategically about the potential of impact investing, part of a growing practice that incorporates environmental, social, and governance criteria into investment decisionmaking.
  
  Guide to Impact Investing May 2011 — 729KB
  
  

2010

• Implementing Health Care Reform: Funders and Advocates Respond to the Challenge
  August 26, 2010
  With provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set to take effect over the next four years, grantmakers and advocacy groups have been developing activities to address the early stages of health care reform implementation. This report is based on over 40 interviews with national and state grantmakers and advocacy organizations about their initial work around implementation. 
  
  Full Report — 588KB
  
  
  Subject Areas: Health Reform

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