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.
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.
Fall Forum 2022 FAQs
GIH COVID Policy, Non-Solicitation Policy, Code of Conduct, Social Media, Photography/Video/Audio Taping Release, Liability Waiver, Registration Eligibility, Cancellation Policy.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – September 2022
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Grantmakers In Health Strategic Plan Cited in Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services Guest Editorial
The Grantmakers In Health strategic plan was referenced in a Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services guest editorial about the need for greater collaboration and understanding between philanthropy and nursing.
Grantmakers In Health and National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers Bring Philanthropy Consultant Directory to GIH Funding Partners
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers to share an online resource that brings expert skills and knowledge to our Funding Partners.
Cara V. James in Inside Philanthropy: Funders Send a Message to Biden on Hunger and Health
GIH President and CEO Cara V. James was quoted in an August 30, 2022 Inside Philanthropy article about a recent letter that GIH, along with The Funders Network, Grantmakers for Education, Native Americans in Philanthropy, and 49 other organizations in philanthropy sent to the Biden administration in support of the upcoming White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.
Task Force Releases Report to Inform White House Conference
Authored by the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, “Ambitious, Actionable Recommendations to End Hunger, Advance Nutrition, and Improve Health in the United States” offers policy recommendations and actions to advance the goals of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to end hunger, improve nutrition, and reduce diet-related diseases in the United States by 2030.