Reimagining Rural Health and Well-being
To inform positive change, Grantmakers in Health (GIH) and the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) are partnering to reimagine a unified vision for health and well-being in rural America. The Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) was engaged to conduct a landscape analysis and facilitate listening sessions with rural health stakeholders at the local, state, and national levels.
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.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: January 2023
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation announced a call for proposals for its two responsive grantmaking programs: Special Initiative and Catalyst Funds.
VNA Foundation: January 2023
VNA Foundation recently released the report, “Utilizing a Mixed-Methods Analysis to Differentiate Models of Healthcare for PSH Residents.” In it, the foundation describes a data project that was piloted to determine how healthcare can be best provided to residents in permanent supportive housing.
RRF Foundation: January 2023
The RRF Foundation for Aging released a call to action to address Older Adult Debt Burden. In The Call to Action, RRF Foundation for Aging illuminates a problem hidden for too long and calls on advocates, researchers, service providers, funders, and others to get involved with addressing this urgent issue.
MetroWest Health Foundation: January 2023
Concerned about the health impacts associated with the lack of affordable housing, the foundation released a report detailing the affordable housing crisis in the MetroWest area of Massachusetts. The report, “Shut Out: Understanding the affordable housing crisis in MetroWest,” details the high costs of and instability in the region’s housing market over the past decade, and how the pandemic has intensified these issues.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina: January 2023
A recent external evaluation and new report from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, “Centering Equity in Grantmaking,” has identified several successes as well as lessons learned related to the foundation’s efforts to center equity and to design a grantmaking process that is inclusive and accessible.