Grantmakers In Health Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce the elections of David Jordan, President and CEO, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund; and Regan Gruber Moffitt, Vice President of Community Investments, St. David’s Foundation; to its Board of Directors.

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Deadlines in Health-Related Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda

This GIH policy resource details many of the health-related executive orders issued by the administration and includes a calendar of upcoming implementation deadlines.

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GIH President and CEO Cara V. James Joined The Rural Impact Podcast for a Conversation about the Intersections of Policy and Philanthropy

On December 4, 2025, Cara V. James, President and CEO of Grantmakers In Health (GIH), was featured in an episode of The Rural Impact podcast. She joined Michelle Rathman, host of The Rural Impact and strategic communications advisor in health care policy, for a conversation on the intersections of policy and philanthropy, challenges with rural health funding, and more. “Policies that are impacting rural communities are…

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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.

GIH Announces New Board Members

Ned Calonge, Nichole Maher, Elena Marks, Patricia Mathews, Donald Moulds, and David Rousseau have been elected to the GIH board of directors. Their terms begin immediately after the GIH annual conference in March.

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Recipe for In-Clinic Nutrition Education

When The Colorado Health Foundation began funding in the healthy living space in 2007, staff saw nutrition education as an avenue to encourage the consumption of healthy foods.

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Transforming Philanthropy through Relationships

In the fall of 2014, the third cohort of the Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy came together and reached a provocative conclusion: the social capital of grantmakers may be as valuable as grant funding.

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Sparking a Patient Activation Movement

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation believes that a great health care consumer awakening is upon us. Read this Views from the Field on how a patient activation movement could lead to a health revolution and transform population health.

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Help All Children Grow Up at a Healthy Weight

Nearly a decade ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation set an ambitious goal for itself and for the nation: reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.

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Bagels, Pasta, and Pajamas: Importing Ideas to Build a Culture of Health

In this Views from the Field, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shares how it’s exploring and learning from promising approaches from other countries.

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