Webinars
The Long View: FORESIGHT in Philanthropy
In order to meet this moment, The Rippel Foundation has launched a series of informative and interactive webinars for funders. The first call in the series, was codesigned by Grantmakers In Health, and we heard from futurist Richard Lum of Vision, Foresight, Strategy. Dr. Lum led a conversation on how foundations can orient their work towards an equitable horizon, and what practices can begin to bridge to this future. Participants finished the hour with an understanding of how to assess where they are today plus how to marshal the resources and will to begin building more equitable and innovative pathways.
Affordable Housing and Health: Long-Term Solutions
This webinar explored innovative measures to address how The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of Americans who have faced the risk of eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness due to job loss, medical debt, and illness over the past year and a half.
Health Equity Starts with the Data
This webinar featured a dive into the findings and a discussion on the reports’ recommendations for improving health equity data and to discuss how philanthropy can help ensure that we can effectively monitor progress towards achieving health equity.
Racial Inequities in Medical Debt: Causes and Potential Solutions
This discussion covered viewpoints on the problem of medical debt, the people most at risk, and potential points of engagement for philanthropy.
Equitable and Sustainable Children’s Oral Health Services in the Carolinas
VirtualA robust conversation was held about an exciting effort to expand oral health services to rural and underserved communities in North and South Carolina, through a school-based model supported by three foundations and their state partners.
Centering Health and Racial Equity: It’s an Inside Job
This webinar explored long-term plans, promising processes, and lessons learned in centering equity and racial justice at their foundations.
Rural Health Care Workforce: Urgent Challenges and Promising Opportunities
This webinar started with an update on rural health care workforce challenges and opportunities which led to an in-depth discussion about philanthropy’s engagement in filling gaps and supporting communities.
Roundtable Discussion for Funders with Limited Assets
Foundations with assets less than $30 million face unique challenges as they seek to maximize their impact in the communities they serve. At this informal networking session, peers had a robust conversation around the most important issues.
Disability Justice: What Funders Can Do to Address Disparities, Equity, and Health
This webinar explored innovative measures to address how philanthropy can advance disability justice and how grassroots organizations are helping to change the national dialogue on disability, health equity, and race.
The Long View: New Year, New Practices
VirtualCo-designed by the Rippel Foundation and Grantmakers In Health, this webinar featured Cassie Robinson, a futurist and philanthropic leader who works, as she describes it, in the “entanglement of what-is and what-might-be.”