Crisis Resources for Grantees
As non-profits face new challenges in the current policy landscape, effective crisis management has become essential. This Grantmakers In Health toolkit provides resources and action steps for grantee nonprofits before, during, and after a crisis.
Youth Mentoring: A Social Development Approach to Youth Health Promotion
When health is defined as the absence of illness and injury, youth fare well. But when that definition is broadened to include emotional, social, and environmental health issues, it becomes clear that youth face significant health problems and health risks. This Issue Brief highlights the work of grantmakers who are supporting mentoring as a strategy for addressing the root causes of adolescent health problems and promoting healthy youth development.
Coping With Managed Care: Responding to the Needs of the Elderly
This Issue Brief discusses the challenges surrounding Medicare managed care and its ability to meet the needs of elderly beneficiaries. The publication presents related trends, issues related to the elderly as active health care consumers, and grantmaker opportunities and lessons learned.
Tracking Foundations Created from Conversions
Since 1980, more than 170 foundations have been created as the result of the conversion of nonprofit hospitals, health plans, and health systems. GIH periodically surveys these organizations to learn about their grantmaking and operations.
Childhood Immunization: Protecting Individuals and Communities
Childhood immunizations are one of the greatest public health achievements in modern times. Questions, however, have been raised about the value and safety of specific vaccines – underscoring the need for balanced, accurate information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent.
Philanthropy’s Newest Members: Findings from the 1999 Survey of New Health Foundations
This GIH report presents findings from our 1999 survey of new health foundations.
Spanning the Generations: Putting Health Grantmaking in an Intergenerational Context
This report features keynote addresses by Marian Wright Edelman, John W. Rowe, and Gene Cohen.
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