GIH Bulletin: May/June 2025

After the 2018 Camp Fire – the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California’s history – the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI) understood that the community needed more than programming to recover. In response, the region’s Accountable Community for Health (ACH) was created – a community-rooted, cross-sector collaborative that invests in local leadership to shift systems, influence policy, and address both long-standing inequities and urgent crises.

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GIH Bulletin: June 2014

Greater Rochester Health Foundation (NY) announced a new funding opportunity in 2014 for its nine-county service area.

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GIH Bulletin: May 2014

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit) recently awarded three research grants to Michigan physicians to conduct pilot studies. Among the
grantees are University of Michigan, Amber Sabbatini, M.D., M.P.H.

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GIH Bulletin: April 2014

Most of Grantmakers In Health’s Funding Partners are local or state foundations, and I suspect that the majority of health funders are geographically based in some way.

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GIH Bulletin: March 2014

The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Anchorage) awarded a total of $86,248 in grants statewide for innovative small projects of $10,000 or less that are a direct benefit to trust beneficiaries, people with mental illness, developmental disabilities

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GIH Bulletin: February 2014

Aetna Foundation (Harford, CT) awarded more than $1.2 million in grants to 23 organizations nationwide to address the use of digital health technology to support minorities and other vulnerable populations.

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GIH Bulletin: January 2014

Allegany Franciscan Ministries (Miami, FL) awarded 118 grants totaling $4.8 million in 2013 to improve the overall health of residents of Miami-Dade County; Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie counties; and the Tampa Bay area of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.

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GIH Bulletin: December 2013

2013 was a transitional year for GIH. It was the beginning of my tenure as President and CEO and also the year we launched GIH 3.0.

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GIH Bulletin: November 2013

Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco) and California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland) announced the expansion of California Catalyst Fund, which provides grants to help community health centers explore and implement partnerships that include administrative consolidation and mergers.

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GIH Bulletin: October 2013

Archstone Foundation (Long Beach, CA) awarded 30 grants totaling $2 million to support programs and initiatives that address aging.

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