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.
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Announces $4.8 Million in New Grants
The FORE Foundation announced 11 new grants totaling $4.8 million as part of a new Innovation Program to support solutions to some of the opioid crisis’ most challenging problems, including professional education and training to address stigma, timely and actionable data, and supporting the transition from treatment to recovery.
New Infographic: Climate Change Is Affecting Our Mental Health
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation released an infographic that highlights how climate change is affecting mental health and offers steps that can be taken to build mental health resilience.
America’s Oral Health Is Improving Thanks to Better Prevention, Expanded Access to Care
The Pew Charitable Trusts are wrapping up their long-term dental campaign, which worked to address policy changes that would increase access to dental care.
Grantmakers In Health Announces 2022 Award Winners
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce Janice B. Yost as the 2022 recipient of the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy, and Evelyn Delgado as the recipient of the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.
Evelyn Delgado to Be Honored with the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy
Evelyn Delgado, President and Executive Director of Healthy Futures of Texas and Chair of the Women’s Healthcare Coalition will receive Grantmaker In Health’s (GIH) 2022 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.
Janice B. Yost to Be Honored with Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy
Janice B. Yost, Ed.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s (GIH) 2022 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.