Grantmakers In Health Announces 2026 Award Winners
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce Mark Constantine, Senior Vice President of Community Investment at the Dogwood Health Trust in North Carolina, as the 2026 recipient of the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health, and Gladys Vega, President and CEO of La Colaborativa in Massachusetts, as the 2026 recipient of the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.
Gladys Vega of La Colaborativa to Be Honored with the 2026 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy
Gladys Vega, President and CEO of La Colaborativa in Massachusetts, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2026 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.
Mark Constantine of the Dogwood Health Trust to be honored with the 2026 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award
Mark Constantine, Senior Vice President of Community Investment at Dogwood Health Trust in North Carolina, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2026 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award.
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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.
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.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: January 2023
This report, “A Focus on Health Care: Five Priorities for the Next Administration,” synthesizes the findings from stakeholder interviews, describing five health care priorities for the new governor and legislative leaders to immediately pursue.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – January 2023
The latest on grants and programs from the field.