Policy Resource: Overview of the Executive Branch
Developed in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, this resource provides a detailed overview of the U.S. executive branch, including the White House, Cabinet, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including organizational charts of key members of the White House policy team and HHS leadership.
Humana Foundation Advances Equity Through Community-Engaged Research Practices
Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Heather Hyden and Soojin Conover of the Humana Foundation about the Foundation’s recently published report, Strengthening Science and Community Impact Through Equitable Research Practices. The report examines innovative research methods adopted by the Foundation’s partners to promote health equity in public health research through community-engaged research practices.
Collaborating for Impact: Providing Trust-Based Grantmaking and Technical Assistance to Support Local Resilience to Extreme Weather Events
In the last few years, there has been an increased number of extreme weather events, including wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and heatwaves in the United States. In 2023, the United States experienced 28 disasters that cost at least $1 billion, the largest number of billion-dollar disasters in a single year on record (Smith 2024). While some areas of the country are more susceptible to these threats, there are no regions immune to disasters. According to a recent Gallup poll, 37 percent of adults in the United States report they have been personally impacted by at least one extreme weather event in the last two years, which is higher than the 2022/2023 survey result at 33 percent.
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Report: December 2016
If Kentuckians looking for 2017 health plans on the federal marketplace are anything like those who obtained their 2016 plans through Kentucky’s state exchange, about 95 percent will enroll in Medicaid, according to a report released by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.
Moving Forward Together
There’s a movement afoot within philanthropy to forge closer working relationships among affinity groups, regional associations, and other philanthropy-serving organizations.
Philanthropy’s Future Leaders
In 2010 GIH established the biannual Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy as a living legacy through which Terrance Keenan’s words and deeds could inspire the field’s future leaders.
Promoting Health Equity through Paid Leave
Universal paid family and medical leave promotes health equity by improving health and well-being across the life span and reducing socioeconomic disparities.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – November 2016
The latest on grants and programs from the field.