A New Path for Philanthropy: Supporting Oral Health Through Community Partnerships
Good nutrition is essential to good oral as well as overall health. A community-based organization in central Washington state called APOYO shares this belief with Arcora Foundation. Beyond food and nutrition services, the organization has long supported immigrant and Latinx families with culturally relevant outreach, advocacy, and resource navigation. But during the summer of 2025, their ability to support communities was in jeopardy.
Welcoming and Belonging: Drivers for Equity and Growth
More than a decade ago, leadership at REACH Healthcare Foundation began exploring how a community would function if it truly embraced welcoming and belonging for immigrant and refugee populations. The mid-sized Midwest philanthropic foundation sought to invest in a plan to reveal, then address, the systemic barriers impacting Kansas City’s efforts of inclusion for all members of the community.
Healing Takes Practice: Reaching People Is Only the Beginning
Violence is increasingly understood as a public health problem. That shift has changed the way communities respond—moving the conversation beyond policing and criminal justice and toward prevention, intervention, and the conditions that put people at risk. But treating violence as a health problem also requires us to reckon with trauma.
We Didn’t Stop: Leading with Purpose When the System Stepped Back
The notice came the way these things now tend to come: abruptly, in writing, and without a transition plan. In April 2025, Public Health AmeriCorps programs were terminated nationally alongside about 900 other AmeriCorps programs. Funding halted. AmeriCorps service members who had built their careers and households around a year of community health service were left waiting for answers no one could give them. Organizations across the country scrambled.
GIH Health Policy Update Newsletter
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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.
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Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – September 2022
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Grantmakers In Health Strategic Plan Cited in Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services Guest Editorial
The Grantmakers In Health strategic plan was referenced in a Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services guest editorial about the need for greater collaboration and understanding between philanthropy and nursing.
Grantmakers In Health and National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers Bring Philanthropy Consultant Directory to GIH Funding Partners
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers to share an online resource that brings expert skills and knowledge to our Funding Partners.
Cara V. James in Inside Philanthropy: Funders Send a Message to Biden on Hunger and Health
GIH President and CEO Cara V. James was quoted in an August 30, 2022 Inside Philanthropy article about a recent letter that GIH, along with The Funders Network, Grantmakers for Education, Native Americans in Philanthropy, and 49 other organizations in philanthropy sent to the Biden administration in support of the upcoming White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health.
Task Force Releases Report to Inform White House Conference
Authored by the Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, “Ambitious, Actionable Recommendations to End Hunger, Advance Nutrition, and Improve Health in the United States” offers policy recommendations and actions to advance the goals of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to end hunger, improve nutrition, and reduce diet-related diseases in the United States by 2030.