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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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Building Consensus Around a Health Funding Agenda

This GIH Issue Focus explores consensus building as a critical means of effective problem solving in society.

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Beyond Access: Family Centered Care

This GIH Issue Focus explores family centered care, an approach to health care delivery that offers a new way of thinking about the relationships between families and health care providers.

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Intergenerational Programs: Drawing on the Resources of Youth and Elderly

Intergenerational programs recruit older adults to work with young people, train children to serve older adults, bring youth and elders together to serve others, or serve youth and the elderly in the same facilities.  This Issue Focus highlights foundation funding in this area, ranging from the support of intergenerational mentoring programs to the development of initiatives to gather data on the effects of intergenerational programs on health.

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Early Childhood Development: Opportunities for Improving the Field

Much is known about the process of child development, and how many factors – health, parental involvement, economic status, and the environment, among others – can affect future outcomes. Based on a 2000 Issue Dialogue, this Issue Focus explores the importance of good health for young children, suggests common elements of successful child development programs, and discusses strategies and opportunities for grantmakers interested in this field.

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Building Healthy Communities

This GIH Issue Focus examines the underlying principles of healthy communities.

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