Self-Assessment for Health Foundation Boards
This webinar explores why foundations should consider a board self-assessment process and how this practice contributes to organizational effectiveness.
Tools that Heal: Core Competencies for Frontline Complex Care Providers
In this webinar, Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health discussed recommendations for strengthening the complex care field and opportunities for health and aging philanthropy to support complex care providers.
Making Healthy School Food Accessible: Key Lessons from the Pandemic
This webinar discussed the challenges school meal programs are facing due to the pandemic, key lessons learned, and roles grantmakers can play to ensure that schools and communities are equipped for success.
Supporting Seriously Ill Elders in the COVID Era
This webinar discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic, examples of best and promising practices and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and what funders of all levels of experience serving these populations can do to make a difference.
Investing in Transformative Change: Helping States and Communities Align and Deploy Federal Funds
This webinar featured Jeffrey Levi of the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Participants learned more about the scale, scope, and distribution of federal COVID funding and explore how health funders are seeking to inform, influence, and facilitate forward-thinking investment decisions.
How Does Climate Change Affect Children’s Mental Health?
This webinar explored both the effects of climate change on children's mental health and the variety of approaches funders can take to build children's resiliency and support the connections with community, adults, and educators that help children cope with uncertainty.
Virtual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting
Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held the 2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health virtual meeting on June 3 and 4, 2021.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Advancing Health and Equity with Ballot Measures: Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative
Listen to this Quick Take to hear more about decriminalization as an essential component to treating drug use as a health issue, the historic campaign that brought this policy to life, and the vision for what comes next.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Advancing Health Equity for the Homebound
Older adults who are homebound are often socially isolated, have unmet care needs, and suffer high mortality—and being homebound is not uncommon. In 2011, data showed that more older adults were homebound than living in nursing homes. This Quick Take will highlight the epidemiology and characteristics of homebound older adults, a population often invisible to society, and discuss why funders should include the homebound in their efforts to advance health care equity.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Closing the Gap: Evaluating Rural Communities with a Health Equity Lens
Using Healthcare Georgia Foundation’s The Two Georgias Initiative as a guiding framework, this Quick Take will explore the role of philanthropy and intermediaries, innovative evaluation tools and resources, and lessons learned about what it takes to build rural community capacity to measure health equity impacts.
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