Remembering Patricia Mathews, Founding President and CEO of Northern Virginia Health Foundation

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is saddened to learn of the recent passing of Patricia Mathews, a longtime fixture in health philanthropy and a former member of the GIH board of directors. Please join us in celebrating Patricia Mathews’ memory, as well as her many contributions to the field of health philanthropy and GIH.

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Responsible Exits: Insights from Three Funders

Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Stephanie Teleki of The California Health Care Foundation, Laila Bell of The Skillman Foundation, and Jaime Vazquez of The Pew Charitable Trusts about their recently published article in The Foundation Review, “When Shift Happens: Navigating Toward a Framework for Responsible Philanthropic Exits.”

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The Keys to Successful Collaboration Between a State-based Health Foundation and a National Funder Collaborative

Discussions about firearms in the US are often focused on urban gun violence and mass shootings. But firearm injury and death is a public health crisis that touches every community—urban and rural, red states and blue—and it intersects with issues many health funders care about: mental health, suicide prevention, and health equity.

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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 Partnersi 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.

Reports

Episcopal Health Foundation: August 2020

A recent survey of low-income Californians and communities of color reveals widespread concern about the health and economic impacts of COVID-19.

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Reports

Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts: August 2020

A recent survey of low-income Californians and communities of color reveals widespread concern about the health and economic impacts of COVID-19.

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Grants and Programs

Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – August 2020

The latest on grants and programs from the field.

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COVID-19 Grants and Programs – August 2020

The latest on COVID-19 grants and programs from the field.

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Views from the field by Amy Duggan

Rethink, Reorient, Reimagine Health and Housing

The pandemic has blatantly exposed the longstanding inequities in America due to institutional and systemic racism that people of color have experienced for far too long. It has brought to
light the need to urgently rethink and reorient our role in reimagi
ng the affordable housing
sector — one that brings health in reach for all.

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views from the fielf by brenda solorzano & erin switalski

Rural Food Insecurity: COVID-19 and Beyond

According to Feeding America, one in ten people and one in six children face hunger in our state (Feeding America 2020). As a foundation focused on the social and economic barriers to health, food insecurity has always been important to us

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