Potential Impact of a Government Shutdown on Health Care Priorities

This resource provides an overview of the September 2025 government shutdown and insights into its impact on the Department of Health and Human Services.

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GIH Awards

Grantmakers In Health Seeks Nominations for 2026 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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Administration Actions Targeting Domestic Terrorism and Their Implications for Nonprofits

This resource provides an overview of the legal implications of the September 22, 2025 executive order designating certain groups as engaging in domestic terrorism.

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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.

Better Health Through Better Philanthropy - Grantmakers in Health

A Healthy Public Needs More Than Public Health: Lessons for Addressing Substance Use

The longstanding invisibility of substance use disorders simply cannot continue if we truly want to improve communities. We have a window of opportunity to make great strides if physical and behavioral health policymakers, advocates, and foundations work together.

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In Memory of Andy Hyman

The field of health philanthropy lost one of its greatest champions when Andy Hyman of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation passed away on February 25, 2015.

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Is the Energy Boom in Your Backyard? Oil and Gas Extraction Threatens Health and Communities Across the United States

The increasing use of a process called hydraulic fracturing–commonly called fracking–is transforming not only the nation’s energy supply, but also its landscape.

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Better Health Through Better Philanthropy - Grantmakers in Health

The Health Care Neighborhood: Philanthropy’s Role in Aging Well

Many primary care physicians do not feel confident in their capacity to meet their patients’ social needs, and they believe this impedes their ability to provide quality care. Despite evidence that social determinants such as education, employment, and economics can influence health outcomes, a service coordination gap remains.

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All Politics are Local: Preemption and Public Health

To accelerate progress toward healthier communities, one of the most important things foundations can do is protect local control by helping their grantees, policymakers, public health advocates and the general public “get smart” about preemption.

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Youth Mental Health First Aid: Implementation Lessons from Pennsylvania

In the fall of 2013, the Brandywine Health Foundation and key area leaders learned from the Pennsylvania Youth Survey about the high rates of depression among Coatesville-area youth compared with youth in the remainder of Chester County and the state as a whole.

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