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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Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Advance a Bold Racial Equity Agenda at a Critical Moment

“What started out as a natural disaster became a man-made disaster.” This is how President Obama described Hurricane Katrina, referring to both the disparate and devastating impacts on New Orleans’ Black community, and the historical and structural inequity that created the conditions for devastation.

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Grantmakers In Health Announces 2025 Award Winners

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce Elizabeth Ripley of the Mat-Su Health Foundation in Alaska, as the 2025 recipient of the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award, and Jane Perkins of the National Health Law Program in Washington, DC, as the 2025 recipient of the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.

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Elizabeth Ripley of the Mat-Su Health Foundation to Be Honored with the 2025 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award

Elizabeth Ripley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mat-Su Health Foundation in Alaska, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2025 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award.

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Jane Perkins of the National Health Law Program to Be Honored with the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy

Jane Perkins, Litigation Director of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) in Washington, DC, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2025 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.

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Standing Together in Perilous Times

GIH urges our Funding Partners and others in our community to join us in signing onto this public statement—we stand a better chance together than if we go it alone.

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Transitions

Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – April 2025

The latest on transitions from the field.

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