GIH Bulletin: August 2025
Access to abortion care in Ohio. The chance to support city candidates with democracy vouchers in Seattle. Promoting judicial ethics in Colorado. An $11 an hour minimum wage in Arkansas. What do these policy changes have in common? They were all enacted through the ballot initiative process, and they all support healthy, thriving communities, both in process and in outcome. But multiple states are seeing efforts to curtail the ballot measure process, limiting the voices of voters.
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.
GIH Bulletin: September 2012
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Anchorage) awarded $96,789 in grants for 10 projects statewide.
GIH Bulletin: August 2012
BHHS Legacy Foundation (Phoenix, AZ) and its affiliates announced that they have awarded $2,361,533 in grants in the greater Phoenix region and $956,352 in grants in their tri-state region (Bullhead City, Mohave Valley, and Topock, AZ; Needles, CA; and Laughlin, NV) during the first half of 2012.
GIH Bulletin: July 2012
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit) awarded three research grants to Michigan-based physicians.
GIH Bulletin: June 2012
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Anchorage) awarded $86,339 to support 11 programs throughout Alaska.