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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Reports

REACH Healthcare Foundation and United Methodist Health Ministry Fund: May 2025

The United Methodist Health Ministry Fund and REACH Healthcare Foundation recently partnered with experts from Manatt Health to shed light on the potential impacts of $880 billion in cuts to the Medicaid program on Kansas.

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Requests for Proposals

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: July 2023

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation announced a call for proposals for its Special Initiatives grant program. In addition, the foundation is now recruiting applicants for the 12th cohort of emerging leaders in the health leadership program that begins this fall.

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Reports

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: July 2023

This study, commissioned in collaboration with the Health Equity Compact, aims to quantify that economic burden associated with solutions for reducing inequities in health (which require investments of time and resources for which there will always be competing priorities.)

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Grants and Programs

Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – July 2023

The latest on grants and programs from the field.

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2023 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy Plenary Videos

Video recordings of the 2023 Grantmakers In Health (GIH) Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy plenary sessions are now available to registered attendees. An email with the passcode was sent to all attendees and speakers July 18. If you have not received the passcode, please contact us to request it. Welcome Message from GIH President and…

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Grantmakers In Health President and CEO Cara V. James Spoke at 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival About Philanthropy’s Influence on U.S. Health

Grantmakers In Health President and CEO Cara V. James participated in a June 22, 2023 Aspen Ideas: Health panel entitled “How Philanthropies Influence the Nation’s Health.”

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