Healthier Information Ecosystems: Strategies for Health Philanthropy
Our information environment is transforming—including the places and people who help us make decisions about our health. Those health information ecosystems are fragmented; filled with information from a wide range of expertise and sources; and platform algorithms exert tremendous and unseen control over what messages are seen, shared, and amplified. These changes have many of our traditional health information sources racing to learn new skills to ensure they remain trusted and relevant.
Beyond Innovation: How Philanthropy Can Strengthen Systems to Improve Rural Health Outcomes
Sometimes innovation in philanthropy is associated with breakthrough technologies or new medical discoveries. But some of the most impactful investments fund something less visible: the coordination of people, protocols, and institutions already in place so they work together seamlessly to save lives.
A Philanthropic Tree of Life: Seeding Health Equity through Influence and Innovation
Philanthropy can function as a living ecosystem for change rooted in equity, nourished by trust, and bearing the fruits of community well-being. The Direct Relief Fund for Health Equity (DRFHE), launched with $50 million in initial investments, exemplifies a transformative philanthropic model supporting nearly 200 community-based organizations across the United States. Acknowledging DRFHE as a “Tree of Life” offers a framework grounded in community-led, trust-based, and unrestricted giving that challenges traditional philanthropic paradigms. Therefore, this article describes the fund’s origins, strategic priorities, and outcomes, and introduces the DRFHE Tree of Life framework as a replicable model for equity-driven philanthropy.
GIH Health Policy Update Newsletter
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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.
Missouri Foundation for Health RFP: March 2020
Organizations in our service area are invited to apply for funds to plan the development of a community-based, multi-sector, collaborative program that aims to reduce gun suicides in a population of interest.
Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts RFP: March 2020
The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts is inviting grant applications for its Activation Fund in 2020. Letters of Intent are due April 30, 2020. The Activation Fund supports discrete, one-year projects in Central Massachusetts.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – March 2020
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 website provides data, guidance, and resources on the evolving situation.
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials: COVID-19
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ (ASTHO) Coronavirus webpage provides information on state emergency declarations, COVID-19 case count data from the CDC, and links to ASTHO statements, blog posts, and other articles.