Survey Findings: Perceptions of Health Funders

November 20, 2025

In July and August 2025, FGS Global conducted research on behalf of Grantmakers In Health (GIH) to help health funders better understand how they are viewed by the public. The research included an online survey of engaged voters nationwide and an online focus group with Washington, DC, policy professionals. An overview of the survey and online focus group findings is now available to all GIH Funding Partners.

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Bridging Community Development, Health, and Metrics

May 17, 2016

The community development sector plays a vital role in improving neighborhood conditions, lifting people and places out of poverty, and transforming the health of low-income communities. Increasingly, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are partnering with health foundations to invest in health-promoting efforts such as affordable housing, health clinics, grocery stores, and child care centers.

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Charting a New Course: Roadblocks, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries

March 3, 2016

Each year, GIH asks health funders to share their thoughts on our annual conference theme. This year’s authors wrote essays about what it means to chart a new course in health philanthropy.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Innovations in Health Equity

February 18, 2016

As foundations begin to think differently about how to improve the health of all people, many grantmakers are looking outside of health care and collaborating across sectors to address the root causes of persistent health disparities and inequities. Achieving health equity requires innovative solutions that result from the combined forces of philanthropy, policymakers, government, community-based organizations, and other partners.

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Policy Unsweetened: Tackling Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

January 19, 2016

Grantmakers’ interest in supporting healthy eating policies has grown over the past two decades and been rewarded with considerable progress. Nonetheless, the next phase of policy work brings new challenges, opportunities, and questions. To explore these issues, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies, a strategic conversation for funders, practitioners, and experts in Sacramento, California. 

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Lessons Learned from Advocacy to Expand Children’s Coverage: A Recipe for Success

December 15, 2015

From 2008 to 2014, the number of uninsured children in the United States fell from 7.3 million to 4.4 million, an astonishing 40 percent drop (Annie E. Casey Foundation 2015). This striking progress toward the goal of universal health insurance coverage of children shows what can be achieved when sufficient resources are marshaled and directed in the right way, at the right time.

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Building on Achievements in Extending Children’s Health Coverage

November 17, 2015

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly known as the ACA, included a range of measures to improve the health of children and secure children’s access to needed health services. This publication takes stock of progress in implementing those measures and considers what will be needed to keep the momentum going and address outstanding challenges.

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Healthy Eating and Active Living: Checking in on Philanthropy’s Investments

November 17, 2015

The Surgeon General’s Call to Action in 2001 sparked widespread public concern about the rising prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States. Since then, many health funders have supported obesity prevention, healthy eating/active living, and healthy living.

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