Policy Resource: Regulatory Comment Writing

This resource provides an overview of how to write and submit a regulatory comment to the federal register.

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Behavioral Health Survey Results

To better track how philanthropy is investing in behavioral health, Grantmakers In Health surveyed our Funding Partners in the spring of 2015 about their behavioral health focus areas, strategies, and target populations. The survey results have been compiled into summary charts and a funder directory to help grantmakers with a focus on behavioral health learn from and connect with each other.

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Philanthropy and Community Development: Partners In Health

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are funding projects across the nation to support health care centers and clinics, grocery stores with healthy food options, and healthy housing. Read this Issue Focus on how CDFIs are a valuable potential partner for health philanthropy.

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Health Reform Five Years Later: Philanthropy Steps Up to the Challenge

In this report, GIH describes the full spectrum of ways in which foundations have engaged in health reform-related efforts—both coverage expansion and health system transformation—since passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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The Cuban Prescription: Human-Centered Care

Earlier this year, members of Grantmakers In Health’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S.Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba. The primary objectives of the trip were to see the Cuban approach to health in action, and to consider whether there were takeaway lessons for the U.S. health system.

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¡Que Viva! Latinos and Health Care in the South

The Latino population in the southern United States is flourishing, which offers the region an opportunity to enrich the fabric of their communities with dynamic and vital young families who are eager to thrive. This demographic shift has sparked strategic conversations within health philanthropy about how best to ensure that Latino communities in the southern states have access to quality, affordable health care.

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Beyond Grantmaking: Health Foundations as Policy Change Agents

This GIH report seeks to help the field of health philanthropy maximize its strategic potential and minimize the difficulties inherent in taking on new roles by both describing ways funders are directly engaging in policy change efforts and distilling the key lessons learned from these experiences.

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