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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de Beaumont Foundation RFP: February 2017

The BUILD Health Challenge is issuing a new call for applications. De Beaumont Foundationwill join ten funding partners to support 18 communities that are collaborating across sectors to find bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven solutions to health issues.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Awards – February 2017

The latest on awards from the field.

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Allegany Franciscan Ministries RFP: February 2017

The Overtown Council for the Common Good, launched by Allegany Franciscan Ministries, is seeking proposals from qualified community stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skill sets, and perspectives to collaborate around one of the community’s priorities, ensuring that Community Voices in Overtown Inform Policies and Decisions.

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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Report: February 2017

The Health Equity Roundtable (“Roundtable”) is a program of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, designed to help Harvard Pilgrim and the health care industry tackle some of the important health disparities by soliciting input from those individuals most directly impacted by disparities in health and health status.

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Health Philanthropy in 2017

In 2017, every American community will be affected by changes to the health policy landscape. Major modifications of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are already under consideration, while other new or revised policies with the potential to affect access to health care or coverage may be revealed in time.

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All Hands on Mission

Allegany Franciscan Ministries is a mission-driven grantmaker whose staff, board, and community volunteers strive to understand and connect with the realities faced by the marginalized communities served by the organization.

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