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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2012 Terrance Keenan Institute Fellows Announced

GIH is pleased to announce the 2012 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy fellows.

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Food and Health for All: Health Equity for Agricultural Farmworkers

Farmworkers—the hands that grow and supply so much of our daily food—pay a high price with their health and often their lives to provide our nourishment. Living below the U.S. federal poverty level, those who feed our nation are a young workforce facing economic, educational, health, and linguistic challenges.

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Dental Hub and Spoke Project Links Kansans in Underserved Areas to Dental Care

Kansas, like many states with a vast rural geography, has substantial areas with little or no access to oral health services. Studies of the Kansas dental workforce show 93 of 105 counties do not have enough dentists to serve their population.  

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The Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality

In 2008 the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided CityMatCH, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the National Healthy Start Association with a $400,000 grant to create the Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality, focused on eliminating racial inequities contributing to infant mortality in U.S. urban areas.

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GIH Celebrates 30 Years of Helping Grantmakers Improve the Health of All People

In 2012 GIH celebrates its 30th anniversary. Ever since our modest beginnings as a three-year trial program of the Foundation Center, our charge has been straightforward: serve the field of health philanthropy to improve the health of all people. Today, GIH continues to carry out this challenging and rewarding mission, thanks in no small part to the ongoing support of our Funding Partners.

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Making the Connection with HIT

Health information technology (HIT) is now widely regarded as a promising tool for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of the health care delivery system – largely due to a major influx of federal funding and the Affordable Care Act. Despite its newfound prominence, the benefits of HIT were only championed by a small cadre of health care professionals a mere six year ago.

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