Policy Engagement by Local Health Funders
Policies made at the local level have a tremendous influence on people’s health. Our new publication explores how health funders inform and influence local policy decisions that play a critical role in shaping community health and well-being.
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children
In this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children Webinar
On this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard from advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
2016 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff, Founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, discusses the pressing health challenges facing veterans and issues a call to action to philanthropy to invest in the well-being of post-9/11 veterans. Listen to his speech, “We Are Vets Rising,” delivered at the 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy.
2015 Fall Forum
The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
Crafting Media Strategies that Accelerate Policy Change
This strategy session at the 2015 Fall Forum examined how the strategic use of media can expedite health policy objectives and will consider how funders can optimize their media investments.
2015 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
The 2015 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 4-6, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Beyond Grantmaking: Health Foundations as Policy Change Agents
This GIH report seeks to help the field of health philanthropy maximize its strategic potential and minimize the difficulties inherent in taking on new roles by both describing ways funders are directly engaging in policy change efforts and distilling the key lessons learned from these experiences.