Healthier Information Ecosystems: Strategies for Health Philanthropy
Our information environment is transforming—including the places and people who help us make decisions about our health. Those health information ecosystems are fragmented; filled with information from a wide range of expertise and sources; and platform algorithms exert tremendous and unseen control over what messages are seen, shared, and amplified. These changes have many of our traditional health information sources racing to learn new skills to ensure they remain trusted and relevant.
Beyond Innovation: How Philanthropy Can Strengthen Systems to Improve Rural Health Outcomes
Sometimes innovation in philanthropy is associated with breakthrough technologies or new medical discoveries. But some of the most impactful investments fund something less visible: the coordination of people, protocols, and institutions already in place so they work together seamlessly to save lives.
A Philanthropic Tree of Life: Seeding Health Equity through Influence and Innovation
Philanthropy can function as a living ecosystem for change rooted in equity, nourished by trust, and bearing the fruits of community well-being. The Direct Relief Fund for Health Equity (DRFHE), launched with $50 million in initial investments, exemplifies a transformative philanthropic model supporting nearly 200 community-based organizations across the United States. Acknowledging DRFHE as a “Tree of Life” offers a framework grounded in community-led, trust-based, and unrestricted giving that challenges traditional philanthropic paradigms. Therefore, this article describes the fund’s origins, strategic priorities, and outcomes, and introduces the DRFHE Tree of Life framework as a replicable model for equity-driven philanthropy.
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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.
New York State Health Foundation: October 2021
NYSHealth Special Projects Fund awards are one-time, nonrenewable funding opportunities consistent with the foundation’s mission to improve the health of all New Yorkers but outside of its main priority areas.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: October 2021
People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice is a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, led and managed by Prevention Institute.
The Pisces Foundation: October 2021
The Pisces Foundation has announced a request for proposals in order to accelerate progress toward a healthy planet through purposeful connection, shared priorities, and scaled, collective action. The deadline to submit is October 29, 2021 at 5pm.
Impact Health: October 2021
Impact Health is officially opening the application process for participating Human Services Organizations (HSOs) that wish to be a part of the Pilot.
Con Alma Health Foundation: October 2021
on Alma Health Foundation is accepting applications for grants that support nonprofits in addressing the disproportionate impact Covid-19 has had on communities and the nonprofit sector in New Mexico.
Bristol Myers Squibb: October 2021
Bristol Myers Squibb announced a Request for Proposal for the “Development and Implementation of Innovative Interventions that Effectively Address Health Disparities in Access to Care for Medically Underserved Communities”.