Advancing Health Beyond Health Care: How Policy Wins in Texas Reflect Philanthropic Strategy

At Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF), our vision is to build healthy communities for all by focusing on health beyond the walls of the doctor’s office. In 2024, we launched a new strategic framework that centers on three major action areas: health and health care services, healthy communities, and health policies. Across these areas, we also are prioritizing food and nutrition security, maternal health, and diabetes prevention, as these are critical levers for improving health outcomes in Texas.

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Transitions

Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – October 2025

The latest on transitions from the field.

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Reports

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust: October 2025

Three new fact sheets inform funders about how recent federal budget cuts will impact health care access, food assistance, and the health of immigrant families. The fact sheets detail what is being cut, when the cuts will take effect, and what to do next.

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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.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation Report: January 2018

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation released the results of a comprehensive mixed-methods study, Access to Outpatient Mental Health Services in Massachusetts.

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RCHN Community Health Foundation Report: January 2018

An analysis produced by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) concluded that if the Community Health Center Fund is not restored, millions of patients served by community health centers may lose access to crucial health care and up to 161,000 jobs could be lost in communities across the nation.

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New York State Health Foundation Report: January 2018

A new New York State Health Foundation-produced data snapshot examines opioid prescribing trends by county in New York from 2010 to 2015. New York is taking numerous steps to combat the opioid crisis.

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RCHN Community Health Foundation Report: January 2018

The proposed public charge rule, issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on October 10, 2018 is likely to have a significant spillover effect on community health center services and capacity.

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Episcopal Health Foundation Report: January 2018

Two-thirds of Texans without health insurance live in working families and more than half are in families that include at least one full-time worker. These are just some of the findings from a detailed report on the uninsured in Texas written by Urban Institute analysts and sponsored by Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF).

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Maine Health Access Foundation Report: Access to Health Care Services for Adults in Maine

The Maine Health Access Foundation released a new data brief developed with the University of Southern Maine that found ongoing inequality in the ability of people in Maine to get quality health care

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