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.
Who was Terrance Keenan, and Why is There a Terrance Keenan Institute?
Held biennially, TKI nurtures talented foundation staff, nominated by their CEOs, helping them to build relationships and to connect with established figures in the field.
Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – October 2018
The latest on transitions from the field.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – October 2018
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
New York State Health Foundation RFP: October 2018
The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) 2019 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals (RFP) is now available.
RCHN Community Health Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation Reports: October 2018
The nation’s community health centers play an increasingly visible role in the maturing, post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) market and continue to show major growth, according to two new studies issued by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.

