Using Strategic Philanthropy to Advance State Health Care Reform: Maine’s New Dirigo Health Plan
Learn about development of Maine’s innovative Dirigo Health Plan, an ambitious, comprehensive health care reform initiative. Dirigo Health will offer a health insurance product to individuals, the self-employed, and small businesses; expand eligibility in Maine’s Medicaid program; and improve quality and contain costs.
Taking Action in Aging Issues: Creating an Agenda, Finding Common Ground
Explore intersections between health and aging that could benefit from funder collaboration, including environment, disability, family caregiving, civic engagement, elder abuse, exercise and wellness, and workforce development.
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Case for Advocacy Funding
Funding public policy work is as important to health improvement as funding for direct services. Lessons learned from funding advocates include the importance of providing core operating support, the need to engage the grassroots, and how to empower community members.
Support Cover the Uninsured Week: Making Uninsured Americans a Priority on the Nation’s Agenda
The issue of the uninsured is one of America’s biggest health challenges, and the situation is growing worse. In response, health philanthropies from coast to coast and some of the nation’s most influential organizations in the United States are joining together to support Cover the Uninsured Week from March 10-16, 2003. We hope you will join us in supporting this unprecedented foundation-led educational effort so that we can speak with one voice on behalf of the nation’s uninsured.
If the Dow Breaks, Will Health Philanthropy Fall? Strategic Grantmaking During Economic Uncertainty
If we were measuring the health of our foundations by financial growth over the past two years, some of us might be considering life-support systems. Fortunately for the field, and for those we support through our grantmaking, the health of our organizations is not measured by dollars alone. The measure of our work is defined in people
Efficient Philanthropy: Modest Beginnings at The Health Funders Partnership of Orange County
A recently released report from The Center for Effective Philanthropy, Indicators of Effectiveness, comments on foundations’ growing understanding and interest in assessing their overall performance, noting that many are “convinced that better performance assessment will lead to greater effectiveness and, in turn, to more social impact on the people and issues they affect.”
Putting Knowledge to Work for Mental Health
A challenge to the philanthropic community: do better when it comes to funding for mental health. Dr. Garduque describes how grantmakers can – and should – play a key role in charting new territory, challenging service systems to do better, and promoting the adoption of evidence-based practices.
What Patient Safety is Teaching Us
This Views from the Field spotlights the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, a regional health care quality and patient safety improvement program. With initial funding from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and support from a wide variety of community stakeholders, this initiative has evolved into a nationally recognized model for improving health care quality.