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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Riding Wild Horses: Philanthropic Strategy in An Era of Unpredictable Health Policy

In 2015, Montana passed bipartisan legislation to expand Medicaid for low-income adults. The new coverage went into effect in January 2016. Within a year, Montana’s uninsured rate dropped from 15 to 7.4 percent and more than 30,000 thousand newly-insured people had already obtained preventive services.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – July 2018

The latest on transitions from the field.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – July 2018

The latest on grants and programs from the field.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation RFP: July 2018

The Weinberg Foundation is seeking strong capital projects, specifically from its priority communities, including Maryland, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, rural communities throughout the United States, and the State of Israel.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Awards – July 2018

The latest on awards from the field.

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2018 Terrance Keenan Institute Fellows Named

GIH is delighted to announce the 2018 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy class of fellows.

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