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.
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.
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.
2013 Fall Forum
The 2013 GIH Fall Forum was held from October 23-24, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Consumer Assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace
On this webinar, participants learned about navigators and in-person assistors: their roles, responsibilities, training, and financing.
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.
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.
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.
Optimizing the Role of CBOs in Public Health Insurance Outreach and Enrollment
In 2009 The Colorado Trust launched a three-year, $3.3 million strategy to enroll traditionally hard-to-reach populations of eligible children into public health insurance programs. This webinar described the successes and challenges of that outreach and enrollment strategy, focusing on the findings of a multiyear evaluation study.
Leveraging Federal Matching Funds
This webinar reviewed the general concept of matching federal funds, identifying the advantages, the challenges, and a few model approaches.
Upcoming Events on Access and Quality
Foundations Take Action on Medicaid
Congress is considering significant cuts to Medicaid as part of the budget reconciliation process being used to advance the new administration’s legislative priorities. Cuts to Medicaid funding would dramatically impact the 80 million people served by the program today. This webinar will provide an overview of potential federal policy changes to Medicaid and considerations for foundations and corporate giving programs as they consider how to take action in their communities. The webinar will feature a panel discussion with the leadership of state foundations to highlight their key initiatives and collaborations on Medicaid defense. Speakers include Patti Baum of Manatt Health, Heather Howard of State Health and Value Strategies, Kaitlyn Kenney Walsh of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Sheldon Weisgrau of Missouri Foundation for Health, and Aaron Wernham of Montana Healthcare Foundation.
State of the Union for the Disability Community
The current U.S. landscape for people with disabilities is growing more complex as changes to critical policies such as Medicaid and Social Security are being proposed and enacted. Join us for a “state of the union” briefing and discussion on disability priorities that highlights both the current realities and the actions needed to improve access, quality, and outcomes. Speakers include Sandy Ho of Disability & Philanthropy Forum, Dom Kelly of New Disabled South, Sean Jackson of Disability Rights Texas, and Mai Pham of Institute for Exceptional Care. Cosponsored with Disability & Philanthropy Forum and WITH Foundation.