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.
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
A new report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine synthesizes available research, taking an in-depth look at this disadvantage in health and lifespan. On this webinar, we heard from the report’s editors about key findings and discussed implications for the work of health grantmakers.
February Kids’ Access Funders Network Call
On this Kids’ Access Funders Network call participants learned more about the framework that states will use to create EHB plans, the implications for children and families, including children with special health care needs, and next steps.
Post-Election Philanthropy: Votes, Values, and Vision
Post-Election Philanthropy: Votes, Values, and Vision was held from December 17-18, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
2012 Fall Forum: Health Care Transformed: Better Delivery for Those Most in Need
The 2012 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 15-16, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Addressing the Dental and Medical Workforce Needs of Rural Communities
On this webinar, we explored how the health and dental workforces in rural communities can be improved through innovations in programs and policy, including the role of funders and the promising areas they can consider for investment.
What Health Funders Need to Know About HIV/AIDS: Part I
This webinar was the first in a two-part series to explore the challenges and opportunities for addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable communities.
How Health Reform’s Medicaid Expansion Will Affect State Budgets
In this webinar, Bob Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities discussed the decision facing states, and what recent estimates suggest about the fiscal implications of the Medicaid expansion.
The Supreme Court’s ACA Decision: What It Will Mean for the Advocacy Agenda
This webinar discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s ACA decision for the advocacy agenda, the types of activities that advocates are considering, and the ways in which foundations might help inform reform.
Women and the Affordable Care Act: Factoring in the Supreme Court Decision
This webinar to discussed the key health reform issues for women, the implications of the Court’s decision, and the role philanthropy can play in supporting issues related to women’s health and the ACA.
Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act
Grantmakers In Health and the Council on Foundations were pleased to cohost an audiocast briefing to explain the Supreme Court decision on the ACA, its policy implications, and what it means for foundations.
Inside National Health Reform: The Second Anniversary of the ACA
This webinar engaged John McDonough, a professor of practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and the author of Inside Health Reform, who between 2008 and 2010 served as senior advisor on national health reform to the U.S. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where he worked on passage of the Affordable Care Act.
2012 GIH Annual Meeting Preconference Sessions
2012 GIH Annual Meeting Preconference Sessions were held on March 7, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Using the Telenovela to Increase Latino Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP
This audioconference explored Encrucijada, and shared how funders could adapt and license the series for broadcast in their own community.
Kids’ Access Funders Network February Call
On this call, Jocelyn Guyer, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families (CCF), discussed the recently proposed ACA rules on eligibility and enrollment systems, and their implications for children and families.
Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Coverage and Cost
This webinar discussed next steps in the determination process, and why this is important to consumers and other stakeholders, including foundations.
Upcoming Events on Access and Quality
Safeguarding Medicaid and SNAP in the Wake of H.R. 1
As H.R. 1 begins to reshape the landscape of safety programs, charitable foundations face a pivotal moment. The legislation delivers sweeping tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners—while dramatically reducing funding for essential programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These cuts threaten the well-being of millions of families, children, and seniors, and shift the financial burden to already overstretched state and local governments.
Now more than ever, philanthropic organizations must act swiftly and strategically to mitigate harm. A key opportunity lies in supporting states as they navigate urgent administrative and implementation challenges—ensuring vulnerable populations don’t fall through the cracks.
SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Advocacy Opportunities
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health are forming a funder Working Group for a coordinated, strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. The Working Group comes as an actionable response to insights shared by field leaders in a SNAP-focused webinar earlier in October.
Recognizing the far-reaching implications of SNAP for food security, health, and economic equity, this Working Group will serve as an information hub and a strategic coordination space, designed to help funders act quickly, effectively, and in alignment with one another. We will organize three Working Group meetings to start and then assess next steps.
The first call will focus on opportunities for funders to support and engage in policy advocacy to protect SNAP on a federal and state level. In addition to connecting with peers, funders will hear from Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, who will provide a policy landscape update from D.C., and Joey Hentzler, Program Manager at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, who will share about MAZON’s policy engagement and rapid response funding.
GIH Health Policy Exchange 2025
The GIH Health Policy Exchange provides policy-engaged funders with information on current issues, access to leading thinkers, and connections with grantmaking peers. This year’s theme is Protecting the Freedom to Give. Against a backdrop of recent federal funding cuts, executive orders, and threats to philanthropy, it is more important than ever for health funders to educate, advocate, and collaborate to support the people, places, and things that are important to us. This year’s Health Policy Exchange will be held November 18 – 21, 2025, at The Westin Arlington in Arlington, VA.