Policy Resource: 2025 Congressional Calendar
Developed in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, this calendar tracks when each house of congress will be in session in 2025.
Policy Resource: Overview of Congressional Staff and Member Outreach
Developed in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, this resource provides a detailed overview of how congressional offices, committees, and leadership are staffed. In addition, it provides recommended best practices for meeting with Members of Congress and their staff.
Policy Resource: Overview of the 119th Congress
Developed in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, this resource provides a detailed overview of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, including leadership in both houses and key committee and subcommittee members.
Trends in Health Philanthropy: Leveraging Policy Change
Over the years, GIH has developed considerable programming to help funders learn from one another about effective policy change strategies, to increase awareness of what is legally possible, and to decrease anxiety about emerging strategies.
RIZE Massachusetts: March 2019
RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE) released a report by the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine division on recovery coaches, a peer support professional used in treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). The report was commissioned to study the effectiveness of recovery coaches, define and examine their role in treatment, and understand current payment methods.
San Joaquin Valley Fund: March 2019
Survey results from San Joaquin Valley demographic experts show that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census would be likely to have a major impact in suppressing census response among San Joaquin Valley Latino immigrants and their social networks, who make up one-third of the region’s total population.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – March 2019
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Grantmakers In Health Announces 2019 Award Winners
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce Diane Kaplan, President and CEO of the Rasmuson Foundation, as the 2019 recipient of the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award, and Benet Magnuson, Executive Director of Kansas Appleseed, as the 2019 recipient of the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy
The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts RFP: March 2019
e Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts is inviting new grant applications for its Activation Fund and its Health Care and Health Promotion Synergy Initiative (“Synergy Initiative”) in 2019.