The 2023 Grantmakers In Health (GIH) Year in Review report explores a year’s worth of innovative programming, details the launch of GIH’s inaugural policy agenda, provides an update on the ongoing implementation of GIH’s strategic plan, and previews GIH’s priorities for 2024.
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Nominate a Rising Star for the 2024 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy.
The nomination period is now open! The program emphasizes leadership development, exploration of critical issues facing the field, and building collegial connections that can endure throughout fellows’ careers.
Terrance Keenan Institute fellows will spend two days with seasoned leaders from the field of health philanthropy. The institute will take place October 8-9, 2024, in Washington, DC.
Deadline Extended: Nominations must be received by Thursday, March 28, 2024.
Announcing GIH's 2024 Policy Priorities
GIH seeks to take a more active role in defining the key issues that will advance better health for all and support health philanthropy with thought leadership and programming to make a lasting impact by influencing advocacy, policy, and funding in targeted areas
This policy agenda identifies our public policy priorities for the coming year. We selected priorities that effect policy and systems change towards health and health equity; align with GIH’s strategic plan; are actionable, timely, relevant, evidence-based, and realistic for GIH’s involvement; galvanize staff, Board, Funding Partners, and health philanthropy; leverage GIH’s organizational resources and unique positioning to lead; and allow GIH to remain nonpartisan. We hope these priorities will also inspire the field of health philanthropy and encourage greater collaboration and commitment to common policy goals among funders. We look forward to working with funders and others to advance this agenda.
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The Health Policy Update is a new monthly newsletter produced in collaboration with Trust for America’s Health. Drawing on GIH’s policy priorities outlined in our policy agenda and our strategic objective of increasing our policy and advocacy presence, the Health Policy Update provides GIH Funding Partners with a range of federal health policy news.
Trends in leadership are changing—just take the Terrance Keenan Institute as an example. When the program started in 2010, it focused on general leadership tactics with topics that ranged from leveraging resources and building partnerships to board dynamics. Since then, the Institute’s curriculum has moved towards a recognition that leaders possess individual strengths that can be embraced to make our organizations and the broader field of health philanthropy more effective.
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Paid Leave and Job Protection for Parents, People Who Are Sick and People Who Have Sick Family Members
Lack of paid family caregiving and medical leave policy at the national level makes the United States a global outlier. In the absence of a national guarantee, more than a dozen states have passed and implemented necessary paid family and medical leave. WORLD Policy Analysis Center has developed a database and policy briefs that describe paid leave laws and policies.
A Compendium of State Policies to Curb Hospital Prices and Reduce Medical Debt
Health care in the United States is the most expensive in the world by far and the reason is simple – health care providers keep increasing the prices of services. Hospitals, which represent the largest component of health care spending, have an outsized influence on medical debt in their communities through their policies and behavior.
Stupski Foundation
“Our approach to grantmaking in health has been deeply shaped by our choice to spend down, and all for the better. I welcome the chance to connect with others considering how having an end date can transform their work and that of their partners. For us, spending down has liberated us to drastically increase the amount we can spend to advance health equity in Hawai’i and the San Francisco Bay AreaOur approach to grantmaking in health has been deeply shaped by our choice to spend down, and all for the better. I welcome the chance to connect with others considering how having an end date can transform their work and that of their partners. For us, spending down has liberated us to drastically increase the amount we can spend to advance health equity in Hawai’i and the San Francisco Bay Area.”
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GIH Signs Organizational Commitment to Thrive Through Civic Health Initiative
GIH has signed an organizational commitment to the Thrive through Civic Health: We Will Vote initiative. The focus of the Initiative is to implement a health sector strategy to build awareness, commitment, and momentum and increase voter participation of health sector workers.
Recent Reports
The Story of Care: A Snapshot of the Care Narrative Change Landscape
At some point, every one of us will need care or need to provide care. The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the extraordinary contributions of caregivers and exposed the failings caused by our nation’s lack of care policies, especially for communities of color. Deploying narrative-change strategies across care-related issues will help create the conditions for cultural and policy progress. The goal of this report is to share with funders the promising narrative-change strategies and tactics that have been identified, a directory of funders and grantees who are supporting this work, and how philanthropy can best support this effort.
Funder Support for Health Care Transformation
This infographic summarizes the responses to a Grantmakers In Health funder poll, conducted October 2022, on how philanthropy is supporting health care transformation efforts, especially those concerned with improving quality of life, coordinating complex care, and taking patient preferences into account.
Perspectives From Health Philanthropy
Philanthropy’s Impact on Health Care Systems: Supporting the Creation of a Community-Health Worker-Based Chronic Care Management Model in Appalachia
Guided by its mission of “helping people help themselves,” the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation strategically invests in the creative problem-solving activities of local communities and individuals. For the past decade, the Benedum Foundation has accomplished this mission in its support of a particular health care delivery model: efficient chronic disease management through a medical model leveraging the skills of community health workers in Appalachia. This model provides unique patient care, has shown success for improving the health conditions of a target population, and reduced health care costs—accomplishments that align with the Institute of Health Improvement’s Triple Aim framework.
Engaging Youth to Guide Research on Their Own Well-Being
In 2019, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Equity and Inclusion unit hosted a convening with young people from Black, Latinx, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) cultural affinity groups, along with adults who support the work and leadership of these youth and young adults. The young participants, many of whom were from the Aspen Institute’s Fresh Tracks program, expressed the need for young leaders to be the ones defining youth well-being and finding solutions that help their own communities support the well-being of young people.
Upcoming Webinars
Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff
Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences collaborating with philanthropic liaisons in state government.
Advocacy for the Older Americans Act Reauthorization: What Can My 501c 3 Foundation Do?
Join us for a workshop that will provide you with a clear understanding of what advocacy activities your 501(c)(3) organization can engage in, what communications count as lobbying, and how to maximize your non-lobbying advocacy.
Upcoming Convenings
Chief Communications Officer
Mat-Su Health Foundation (MSHF) seeks a strategic communications executive with a passion for building connections through communications to serve as Chief Communications Officer (CCO). A critical partner to the CEO and leaders across the organization, the CCO will create a cohesive plan to advance the organization’s mission and values through communications.
President/Secretary
The next President/Secretary of the HealthPath Foundation will have the opportunity to make a difference in the health of Ohioans. This leader will oversee grant investments across Ohio and use HealthPath’s access and influence to advance public health outcomes through collaboration and advocacy.
Senior Officer for Public Opinion Insights
The Foundation is happy to announce an opening for the position of Senior Officer for Public Opinion Insights. This unique position leads a signature body of work within the Foundation focused on equipping advocates for health equity and racial justice with research-based insight into what shapes Coloradans’ opinions about controversial public policy topics.
Director of Health Insurance
The Health Insurance Program Director is responsible for leading 11 grantees and the 21 outreach workers they employ in targeted localities throughout the state; supervising VHCF’s Application Assistance Specialist; spearheading the Foundation’s Medicaid/FAMIS training efforts; working with key state agencies to improve related systems and policies; engaging in other health insurance-related initiatives as appropriate; helping identify and create new opportunities and program models related to outreach and enrollment; and, assisting with special projects.
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