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.

United Hospital Fund Report: August 2016

A new report issued jointly by United Hospital Fund (UHF) and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy presents potential value-based payment models for children’s health services under New York Medicaid.

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One Funder’s Role in Medicaid Expansion and Affordable Care Act Implementation

The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, a 19-year-old conversion foundation, has elevated its health policy agenda to advocate for health reform and create a key role for health philanthropy in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Ohio.

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Measuring the Impact of Policy-Focused Work: Difficult but Necessary

What do we know about what works to improve the complex U.S. health care system? How can we spread what works in one setting to other states, health systems, and provider groups? What can we do to move the policy discussion forward and ensure that they are grounded in evidence?

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Reaffirming GIH’s Mission and Values

Our mission and values are at the heart of everything we do, whether it is our programs, fund development, recruitment of new Funding Partners, or outreach to the field.

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2016 Call for GIH Board Nominations

GIH seeks nominations for its board of directors for terms beginning immediately after the annual conference in March 2016. Nominations are due Friday, September 2.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – July 2016

The latest on grants and programs from the field.

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