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.
2017 Call for GIH Board Nominations
GIH is seeking nominations for its board of directors for terms beginning in March 2018. Nominations are due Friday, September.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – July 2017
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
RCHN Community Health Foundation Report: July 2017
Compared to doctors’ offices and other providers, community health centers lower the cost of children’s primary care by approximately 35 percent, according to an analysis published by researchers at the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.
The Colorado Health Foundation Report: July 2017
Colorado Health Foundation released a new white paper explaining its decision to create and endow Healthier Colorado, a 501(c)(4) political organization that is free to engage in lobbying and elections.
Grantmakers In Health Celebrates 35 Years of Support to Health Philanthropy
Since its inception, GIH has grown to be the leading national network dedicated to the needs and concerns of health funders. Over the past 35 years, the organization has strengthened health philanthropy through its meetings, publications, leadership trainings, and strategic advice—operating with the core belief of better health through better philanthropy.