Behavioral Health Strategies

GIH conducted a survey in late 2024 on funder engagement in behavioral health. This fact sheet, based on a sample of 139 health funders, summarizes the current trends, gaps, successes and challenges for funders. It also highlights philanthropy’s continued commitment to behavioral health while also signaling concern about the upcoming funding environment.  

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Improving Access to Care: New Solutions to an Old Problem

This GIH Issue Focus looks at some of the more recent and creative efforts to make sure that people can get health care when they most need it.

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Strategic Initiatives: Finding Your Niche

This GIH Issue Focus answers common questions about strategic initiatives and provides examples to highlight the wide variety of health grantmaking being conducted through these initiatives.

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Youth Mentoring: Creative Strategies for Promoting Youth Health

This GIH Issue Focus describes the methods and strategies of youth mentoring programs, research findings on program effectiveness, and foundation support of youth mentoring programs.

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Prevention and Women’s Health: Can Philanthropy Make a Difference?

This GIH Issue Focus makes the case for funding in prevention and women’s health and describes approaches being taken by grantmakers.

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Long-Term Care Quality: Facing the Challenges of an Aging Population

As our population ages, and the need for long-term care services grows, issues surrounding the quality of care, as well as the quality of life, will become increasingly important. Based on a recent GIH Issue Dialogue, this Issue Focus explores ways in which grantmakers can partner with policymakers, health care professionals, advocacy groups, and patients and their families to improve the quality of long-term care.

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Peer Assessment: A Pilot Program for Health Philanthropy

This GIH Issue Focus discusses GIH’s new peer assessment pilot program.

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Health Philanthropy and Communities: Grantmakers Share Their Views

This GIH Issue Focus recaps a preconference session at the GIH Annual Meeting, in which Sue Bunting (Foundation for Seacoast Health), Ed Meehan (The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust), and Patricia O’Connor (The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati) addressed the role of foundations in communities.

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