From Recovery to Resilience: Investing in Collaborative Infrastructure for Health and Equity

After the 2018 Camp Fire – the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California’s history – the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI) understood that the community needed more than programming to recover. In response, the region’s Accountable Community for Health (ACH) was created – a community-rooted, cross-sector collaborative that invests in local leadership to shift systems, influence policy, and address both long-standing inequities and urgent crises.

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Broken Triangle: A Framework for Reparative Philanthropic Relationships

Traditional philanthropic practices have often created imbalanced power dynamics and barriers for Black-led, Black-serving organizations. When the REACH Healthcare Foundation performed a portfolio review in 2018 that revealed this same exclusion within the foundation’s grantmaking investments, REACH committed to reshaping their funding approach, which aims to repair previously neglected —and in some cases, damaged —relationships.

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New York State Health Foundation RFP: August 2018

Funding is now available through a New York State Health Foundation Request for Proposals, “Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans’ Health.”

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1889 Foundation RFP: August 2018

The 1889 Foundation has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) that seeks community interventions aimed at prevention and/or control of type II diabetes.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Awards – August 2018

The latest on awards from the field.

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RCHN Community Health Foundation Report: August 2018

A new Health Center Data Insight by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at Milken Institute School of Public Health shows that for the six-year period 2010-2016, community health centers nationwide experienced a growth in patients served of one third, or 33 percent.

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New York State Health Foundation Report: August 2018

With NYSHealth funding, HonestHealth conducted an inventory of more than 230 health care transparency tools across the United States. The resulting interactive, online database evaluates tools in four categories: physicians, hospitals, prescription drug pricing, and health insurance purchasing.

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Vitalyst Health Foundation Report: August 2018

Helios Education Foundation, Arizona Grantmakers Forum, and Vitalyst Health Foundation are proud partners in the release of Arizona’s Community Schools: Beyond Education.

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