GIH Awards

Grantmakers In Health Seeks Nominations for 2027 Leadership and Advocacy Awards

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce a call for nominations for both its Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy and Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.

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GIH Comments on the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Framework for FY27–FY31

GIH submitted a comment in response to a Request for Information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Framework for FY27–FY31. The Strategic Plan outlines NIH’s vision for biomedical research direction, capacity, and stewardship, and lays out NIH’s proposed priorities over the next five years. 

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Taking the Risk to Shift Our Focus Upstream

For nearly three decades, we at the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation have operated with a clear and compassionate mission: to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children from birth to five years old and their families throughout New Hampshire. Yet after 28 years, we have made a deliberate and strategic decision to evolve our approach—shifting our focus “upstream” to address poverty as a root cause of the challenges we have long sought to mitigate.

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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 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.

Health Foundation for Western & Central New York Report: June 2017

The Health Foundation for Western & Central New York’s vision of improving health care for vulnerable older adults and young children impacted by poverty is reliant on the work of advocates in the community.

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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Report: June 2017

Heroin use has increased and opioid abuse remains high in Kentucky, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll (KHIP) report.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – May 2017

The latest on transitions from the field.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery

A new GIH report describes an innovative and transformative approach to health care delivery called the Nuka System of Care.

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Reimagining a Patient-Centered Health Care System

NYSHealth’s approach for putting patients at the center is to support efforts–at the individual, system, or policy level—that empower patients to be drivers of and partners in their own health and health care.

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The Power of Collaboration for Environmental Health and Justice

Eboni Cochran knows when there has been a chemical release from one of the manufacturing facilities near her home in west Louisville, Kentucky. Not because of a warning siren, but because she smells it, then feels the symptoms almost immediately: sinus pain, headache, trouble breathing.

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