GIH Bulletin: January/February 2026
One year ago, as we were just one month into the new administration, I wrote that “At a moment when so much has been described as ‘unprecedented,’ and so much of what we value is being attacked, we need to ask ourselves as individuals, organizations, and a field, what do we stand for? What values do we hold, and what will we do and say to defend them?” Today, the answers to these questions are needed more urgently than ever.
GIH Bulletin: June 2013
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation (Durham) announced a partnership with the North Carolina Council of Churches (Raleigh) to provide equipment for 20 faith-based organizations to bring healthier food to their members and communities.
GIH Bulletin: May 2013
Aetna Foundation (Hartford, CT) made a $100,00 gift to the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) (Hampton, VA) to support victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and the recent fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.
GIH Bulletin: April 2013
Austin Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH) approved grant requests totaling $173,950 to 14 nonprofit organizations located in Ohio’s four-county area that encompasses Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne counties.
GIH Bulletin: March 2013
Philosophers and sociologists have written about the essential role social engagement and good connections between people play in building strong communities. At this year’s annual meeting I was reminded of this by all three plenary speakers.
GIH Bulletin: February 2013
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit) awarded two research grants to physicians from the University of Michigan to conduct pilot studies.
GIH Bulletin: January 2013
BHHS Legacy Foundation (Phoenix, AZ) awarded more than $4.6 million in grants to Arizona nonprofits to support health-related programs.
GIH Bulletin: December 2012
In 2011 Grantmakers In Health (GIH), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, launched the GIH State Grant Writing Assistance Fund.
GIH Bulletin: November 2012
Aetna Foundation (Hartford, CT) awarded a $40,000 grant to The Center Helping Obesity In Children End Successfully (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) (Atlanta, GA), a nonprofit organization that works with communities in metropolitan Atlanta to fight childhood obesity.
GIH Bulletin: October 2012
Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH) approved funding totaling $167,530 to support 12 nonprofit organizations located in Ohio’s
four-county area of Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne.