Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – January

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health convened a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in Maryland

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children was held on January 14, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community December

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health is convened a learning community for funders supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Exploring the San Joaquin Valley: A Land of Change and Promise

Exploring the San Joaquin Valley: A Land of Change and Promise, a learning tour, was held from December 4-6, 2013 in Fresno, California.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – November

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Why the Affordable Care Act Matters to Diverse Older People

This webinar highlighted both national and state-specific examples on what is being done to ensure that older people know about the changes that are taking place under the ACA and how it affects them.

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Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning from Kids’ Coverage Initiatives

On this webinar, participants joined an in-depth discussion of the monitoring, learning, and evaluation plans for the Finish Line and KidsWell initiatives and to hear from Bruce Lesley of First Focus, who will briefly discuss Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – October

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health convened a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – Sept

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health launched a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Connecting the Health Workforce to Underserved Communities through the State Loan Repayment Program

On this webinar participants learned more about what the NHSC is doing to meet health care workforce needs, how states are managing these efforts, and what foundations are doing to support this work.

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ACA Implementation: How Will Children and Families Fare?

On this webinar, participants heard about two new efforts: one focused on messaging and the other focused on monitoring.

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CMS Update on Health Insurance Marketplaces

On this webinar, participants heard the latest from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on their outreach, education, and enrollment plans for the health insurance marketplaces, including the newly available on-line educational tools at healthcare.gov.

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Access = Health: A Conversation on Funding Access to & Retention in Care with AIDS United

This conversational case study discussed ways to discover how new grantee collaborations reach beyond HIV/AIDS to improve the total wellness of communities and individuals most impacted by the epidemic.

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Better Together: EITC and ACA

On this webinar, speakers discussed opportunities for health funders and economic security funders to complement one another’s outreach efforts.

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How to Talk about Medicaid Expansion in Your State

On this webinar, Bruce Lesley of First Focus joined the GIST/GCYF/GIH Communications Collaborative to provide an update on the status of the Medicaid expansion, as well as advice about how funders might improve communication about Medicaid expansion in their states.

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Consumer Assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace

On this webinar, participants learned about navigators and in-person assistors: their roles, responsibilities, training, and financing.

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ACA Impact Survey

Like many funders, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is interested in learning how the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects important outcomes such as coverage, access, and affordability, and believes that state-level estimates are important to this monitoring effort. On this webinar, participants learned more about this opportunity.

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Understanding the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

On this webinar, GIH and Funders Concerned About AIDS explored the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, the $2 billion dollar federal investment that provides care & services to half a million People Living with HIV/AIDS each year.

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Federally-Facilitated Health Insurance Marketplaces

On this webinar, participants learned more about the Administration’s current plans for the implementation of federally-facilitated health insurance marketplaces, and participated in a funder-led discussion on the potential roles of philanthropy.

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Upcoming Events on Access and Quality

Funder Briefing: Healthcare Access for Immigrant AANHPI Women+

As immigration enforcement intensifies and economic pressures mount under the newly passed tax bill, immigrant Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women face growing challenges to accessing affordable and culturally responsive healthcare and safety net programs. The increase in workplace raids and fear of detention and deportation has profoundly impacted AANHPI immigrants that many refrain from leaving their homes to seek medical care, go to work, or even attend school, deepening inequities in immigrant communities. This webinar will bring together policy experts, community leaders, and funders to discuss the critical role of Medicaid in immigrant communities with an emphasis on the intersecting effect of immigration status, gender, economic strain, and healthcare access.

Join us to explore actionable strategies for philanthropy to strengthen safety nets, advance immigrant health equity, and ensure that immigrant AANHPI women are not left behind during the changing political climate.

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Mental Health Meets Firearm Safety: Innovative Strategies to Reduce Firearm Suicide

Firearms are involved in 55 percent of suicides in the United States, accounting for more than 27,000 deaths every year as documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.  Yet this crisis remains largely invisible in public discourse. This webinar makes the case that the tools to act are already within reach.

This webinar brings together practitioners, funders, and public health leaders working at the intersection of mental health and firearm safety. Hear how mental health systems can integrate firearm access screening across the continuum of care, and why culturally responsive assessments are essential to making these approaches effective and equitable. Learn from Stanislaus County’s firsthand experience adopting this model and join a candid conversation about the funding strategies, system changes, and community partnerships that make this work possible. 

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Values, Voice, and H.R. 1: When Should Foundations Speak Out?

The stakes for health remain high in 2026 as implementation of H.R. 1 ushers in harmful changes to health and social safety net programs. Foundations are increasingly speaking publicly about the damaging effects of these and other federal actions on the health of communities. This webinar will explore when and how to issue a public statement. Chrystal Okonta, Director of FGS Global’s Health team, will discuss key factors when crafting a public statement such as urgency, mission alignment, and organizational capacity. Kerry Jones Waring, Vice President for Communications at the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, will share the foundation’s decision process, advice for crafting messages, and managing feedback.  

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