Advancing Health Beyond Health Care: How Policy Wins in Texas Reflect Philanthropic Strategy
At Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF), our vision is to build healthy communities for all by focusing on health beyond the walls of the doctor’s office. In 2024, we launched a new strategic framework that centers on three major action areas: health and health care services, healthy communities, and health policies. Across these areas, we also are prioritizing food and nutrition security, maternal health, and diabetes prevention, as these are critical levers for improving health outcomes in Texas.
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust: October 2025
Three new fact sheets inform funders about how recent federal budget cuts will impact health care access, food assistance, and the health of immigrant families. The fact sheets detail what is being cut, when the cuts will take effect, and what to do next.
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.
Guide to Impact Investing
Read GIH’s latest report, Guide to Impact Investing, which offers a framework to help funders think strategically about the potential of impact investing, part of a growing practice that incorporates environmental, social, and governance criteria into investment decisionmaking.
GIH State Grant Writing Assistance Fund
Grantmakers In Health, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, announces the availability of the GIH State Grant Writing Assistance Fund. The fund will provide up to $15,000 in matching funds per state to grantmakers who are interested in offering grant writing support to state government agencies.
GIH Announces State Grant Writing Assistance Fund Awards
GIH is pleased to announce the 11 states that received awards under the GIH State Grant Writing Assistance Fund.
Promoting Family-Centered Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
There are approximately 10.2 million children in the United States with special health care needs, which translates into one out of every five households (MCHB 2007).
Access to Care for the Categorically Ineligible
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will expand health care coverage to 32 million Americans (CBO 2010), many states remain concerned about providing their residents access to clinical and preventive services.
Educating Californians about the Affordable Care Act
he California Endowment launched a consumer education effort aimed at explaining the contents of the Affordable Care Act for one simple reason: our organization’s mission is “to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.”