Improving Health Outcomes for Seniors in Rural Communities

In this webinar, participants learned about an innovative telemedicine program supporting optimal healing and wellness for older adults in seven states that focuses on providing proactive medical care to avoid unnecessary transfers, hospitalizations, and read missions.

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Meeting Substance Use Needs with Medicaid Expansion

Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. This second strategic conversation in a series discussed progress in the 19 remaining states.

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Fourth Annual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting

Fourth Annual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting was held May 23-24, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

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Moving the Needle on Medicaid Expansion

Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Your grantmaking colleagues held a strategic conversation about making progress in the 19 remaining states.

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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.

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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.

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2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 9-11, 2016 in San Diego, California.

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Children’s Access and Coverage

The webinar helped grantmakers understand the range of experiences (within and across states) that low-income families face in obtaining children’s health coverage, and considered strategies for improving access to care.

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LGBT Health Funding Summit

The LGBT Health Funding Summit was held from November 19-20, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

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Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas

Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas was held on October 29, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

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Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session

Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session was held on October 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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Conversation with the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services

This webinar addressed children’s access to health care, and featured Anne Marie Costello, Acting Director, Children and Adults Health Programs Group at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.

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King v. Burwell: What You Need to Know (Part 2)

On June 25th, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax credits will continue to be available to eligible individuals, regardless of where they live. This webinar discussed the implications of the Supreme Court decision, what lies ahead for the Affordable Care Act, and potential roles for philanthropy moving forward.

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Medicaid Expansion: Economic Impact and Sustainability

This webinar reviewed findings from recent impact analyses, considered the implications for sustainability of the expansions, and discussed prospects for expansion in additional states.

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King v. Burwell: What You Need to Know

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule on King v. Burwell, deciding whether the health reform law’s language allows the government to provide insurance subsidies everywhere in the country, or only in states that have set up their own insurance marketplaces. This webinar discussed the basics of the case and its potential impact on health reform.

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Building a Legacy of Healthy Children

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children was held from June 9-10, 2015 in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Health Reform Five Years Later: Philanthropy Steps Up

This webinar featured Barbara Masters of Masters Policy Consulting discussing the findings of Grantmakers In Health’s latest report, which examines the health reform strategies that funders are using and identifies new challenges and opportunities on the horizon.

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Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in Florida

This webinar provided Florida funders the opportunity to discuss their grantmaking strategies, advocacy, and implementation efforts related to children’s health.

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Enrollment Results and Opportunities for 2015

This webinar provided updates on the federal funding picture, programming and coalition building efforts, and state and local outreach and enrollment opportunities.

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Upcoming Events on Access and Quality

When “Exempt” Isn’t Enough: Medicaid Work Requirements and Maternal Mental Health

Invitation: When “Exempt” Isn’t Enough: Medicaid Work Requirements and Maternal Mental Health

Medicaid work requirements are set to take effect soon, creating a burdensome administrative process that most enrollees will need to navigate to keep their coverage. Certain populations are exempt from these requirements—including people who are pregnant or postpartum, and those parenting a child age 13 or under. But exemption doesn’t mean automatic protection: in most cases, individuals must actively prove or attest to their exempt status, often through paperwork and verification processes that are easy to miss or misunderstand.

On paper, this should mean pregnant, postpartum, and parenting individuals face no risk to their health insurance. In practice, the complexity of federal rules—combined with the burden of proving an exemption rather than simply receiving one—will inevitably create confusion, fear, and unnecessary coverage loss for people who qualify.

For people who are pregnant, postpartum, or parenting, this could mean slipping through the cracks of a system that assumes they’re protected but doesn’t make that protection easy to keep—worsening maternal mental health in the process. For people of childbearing age more broadly, it could mean losing access to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy counseling that helps them achieve and maintain healthy pregnancies. Join Funders for Maternal Mental Health and Grantmakers In Health on October 14th from 2 pm – 3:15 pm ET / 11 am – 12:15 pm PT for a webinar on this timely topic.

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CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs

It is a difficult time for many, but especially for those who are new to their role. Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in October, to offer foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years the opportunity to discuss the challenges they are facing as new CEOs with one another and seasoned leaders in the field. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.

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