SCOTUS: Expanding Philanthropy’s Equity Lens

Virtual

Several recent Supreme Court decisions, including Dobbs, Loper Bright, and Students for Fair Admissions, have significant implications for philanthropy’s health improvement and health equity goals. Reprising a popular panel discussion held during GIH’s 2024 Health Policy Exchange, this session explored the many ways SCOTUS rulings have shifted the health policy landscape and how health funders can become more engaged in supporting legal advocacy to influence judicial decision making. Speakers included Michele Bratcher Goodwin of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center, Giridhar Mallya of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Skye L. Perryman of the Democracy Forward Foundation.

Health Care Policy in 2025: What to Expect from Congress and the Trump Administration

Virtual

 In this timely webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners provided an overview of what to expect from Congress and the Administration, focusing on key legislative priorities and executive actions, and shared their predictions for what to watch over the first 100 days. Speakers addressed the role that budget reconciliation could play in shaping the nation’s policy landscape, the implications for funders, and the challenges and opportunities presented while navigating this expedited process.

GIA & GIH Funder Briefing on the Older Americans Act Reauthorization

Virtual

Despite bipartisan attempts until the 11th hour, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024 was not passed. With a new Congress and Administration, there is a new landscape for what may come next for the OAA and other important health and aging policies. Join us for an update on OAA reauthorization, a discussion of national aging policy and funding, and GIH and GIA's plans for supporting OAA reauthorization and other important aging policies in 2025. Speakers include Amy Gotwals of USAging and Marci Phillips of National Council on Aging.

How the Care Movement is Organizing Against Devastating Federal Tax and Budget Cuts

Virtual

This important webinar examined the potentially devastating impact of possible federal budget and tax cuts on women, children, older adults, and people with disabilities and the care movement’s planned response. These budget cuts could shift costs onto states, undermining family health and income security. The effects could reverberate across generations, reverse gains for women, children, older adults, people with disabilities, and workers, and hinder future federal public investments in equitable childcare, paid leave, aging, and disability care. Watch the recording to learn how a cross-issue, cross-generational state and federal movement is raising the voices of the families most impacted, and how philanthropy can engage at this pivotal moment.