A New Path for Philanthropy: Supporting Oral Health Through Community Partnerships 

Good nutrition is essential to good oral as well as overall health. A community-based organization in central Washington state called APOYO shares this belief with Arcora Foundation. Beyond food and nutrition services, the organization has long supported immigrant and Latinx families with culturally relevant outreach, advocacy, and resource navigation. But during the summer of 2025, their ability to support communities was in jeopardy.

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Welcoming and Belonging: Drivers for Equity and Growth

More than a decade ago, leadership at REACH Healthcare Foundation began exploring how a community would function if it truly embraced welcoming and belonging for immigrant and refugee populations. The mid-sized Midwest philanthropic foundation sought to invest in a plan to reveal, then address, the systemic barriers impacting Kansas City’s efforts of inclusion for all members of the community.

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Healing Takes Practice: Reaching People Is Only the Beginning

Violence is increasingly understood as a public health problem. That shift has changed the way communities respond—moving the conversation beyond policing and criminal justice and toward prevention, intervention, and the conditions that put people at risk. But treating violence as a health problem also requires us to reckon with trauma.

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We Didn’t Stop: Leading with Purpose When the System Stepped Back

The notice came the way these things now tend to come: abruptly, in writing, and without a transition plan. In April 2025, Public Health AmeriCorps programs were terminated nationally alongside about 900 other AmeriCorps programs. Funding halted. AmeriCorps service members who had built their careers and households around a year of community health service were left waiting for answers no one could give them. Organizations across the country scrambled.

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GIH Health Policy Update Newsletter

An Exclusive Resource for Funding Partners

The Health Policy Update is a newsletter produced in collaboration with Leavitt Partners and Trust for America’s Health. Drawing on GIH’s policy priorities outlined in our policy agenda and our strategic objective of increasing our policy and advocacy presence, the Health Policy Update provides GIH Funding Partners with a range of federal health policy news.

Transitions

Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – June 2021

The latest on transitions from the field.

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Awards

Philanthropy @ Work – Awards – June 2021

The latest on awards from the field.

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Reports

New York State Health Foundation: June 2021

A new New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) report examines variation in what is paid for childbirth in each of the five boroughs of New York City in 2017, using data on vaginal and cesarean deliveries in the Health Care Cost Institute commercial claims database.

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Requests for Proposals

FORE : June 2021

This RFP targets projects which can explore and/or evaluate new “outside-the-box” ideas, bring together approaches from several diverse fields and engage multi-disciplinary, cross-sector teams to solve some of the most intractable problems with the nation’s opioid crisis.

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Requests for Proposals

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: June 2021

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation is recruiting applicants for the 11th cohort of emerging leaders in the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership (MICHL) program that begins this fall.

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Grants and Programs

Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – June 2021

The latest on grants and programs from the field.

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