Infosheet: Key Provisions in the House-passed Reconciliation Bill—H.R. 1, the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’
An infosheet provides analysis of key health, philanthropy, and nonprofit provisions in H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22, 2025. Changes include an estimated $715 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending including work requirements, new eligibility requirements to the Affordable Care Act that will reduce access to the ACA’s Advanced Premium Tax Credits, $300 billion in reductions to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, an excise tax on foundations, and new authority for the Secretary of the Treasury to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits the administration deems as “terrorist support organizations.”
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.
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.
Policy Matters: How the Affordable Care Act Has Changed Our Grantmaking
Health reform is not for the faint of heart. When we began drafting this article, it took shape as a reflective piece on the ways in which the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) had affected our grantmaking.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – January 2017
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – January 2017
The latest on transitions from the field.
de Beaumont Foundation RFP: January 2017
The de Beaumont Foundation’s BUILD Health Challenge is issuing a new call for applications. It joins 10 funding partners to support 18 communities who are collaborating across sectors to find bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven solutions to health issues.
Consumer Health Foundation Report: January 2017
The Consumer Health Foundation (CHF) released a briefing paper on “Immigration Status as a Social Determinant of Health.” The vision statement in CHF’s 2014-2016 strategic plan included “immigration status” as one of the identities or factors around which barriers are often created that limit people’s ability to live a healthy and dignified life.
New York State Health Foundation Report: January 2017
A new NYSHealth-funded report in the Consumer Reports January 2017 issue offers ratings of health cost estimator tools, both nationally and New York State-specific.