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.
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.
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.
Making Space for New Leadership
Every year brings important opportunities for Grantmakers In Health, and this year will be no exception. I recently informed the GIH board and staff that I have decided to leave the organization at the end of 2019.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – November 2018
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – November 2018
The latest on transitions from the field.
RCHN Community Health Foundation Report: November 2018
A new report, issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation, is a follow-up study to an earlier survey that examined the experiences of Puerto Rico and USVI health centers in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Kresge Foundation Report: November 2018
The Kresge Foundation issued a new report, Human Progress and Human Services 2035, that examines what the future holds for human services in the United States, including how the sector will manage federal and state safety nets, government assistance, universal basic income, job training, and employment in an era of automation and technology innovation.