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FORE: August 2021
FORE (Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts) will provide grant support for specific projects that aim to improve, expand, and/or scale evidence-based family-, school-, and/or community-based prevention services for children and families, particularly for those at highest risk.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation: August 2021
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation announced two upcoming funding opportunities for nonprofits in Massachusetts.
New Oral Health Policy Equity Tool
A user-friendly, interactive resource, the tool is designed to help key stakeholders center equity and community engagement in oral health policy agenda-setting. It is flexible and can be used to foster important advocacy conversations or analyze a specific piece of legislation or a comprehensive policy agenda.
FORE : June 2021
This RFP targets projects which can explore and/or evaluate new “outside-the-box” ideas, bring together approaches from several diverse fields and engage multi-disciplinary, cross-sector teams to solve some of the most intractable problems with the nation’s opioid crisis.
Dying from Drugs: A New Look at Overdose Deaths in the U.S.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on people living with substance use disorder. The NIHCM Foundation recently released a new infographic with analysis of the latest data and trends for overdose deaths.
Tracking Health Policy Trends in Texas
The Episcopal Health Foundation recently released the latest Texas Health Policy Poll Report, a statewide public opinion survey that gathers Texans’ opinions on a variety of important state health policy issues. Our objective is to use the poll findings to inform the discussion on state health policy priorities.
Publications and Reports
2024 Survey Summary: Health Workforce Strategies
Concerns about the supply, diversity, cultural responsiveness, geographic distribution, and safety of the health workforce have reached a critical level across the country. Philanthropy has a role to play in maximizing the health workforce to achieve patient safety, provider well-being, equitable access, care quality, and improved health outcomes. Therefore, GIH recently conducted a survey to learn about funders’ strategies related to their health workforce investments.
Funder Support for Health Care Transformation
This infographic summarizes the responses to a Grantmakers In Health funder poll, conducted October 2022, on how philanthropy is supporting health care transformation efforts, especially those concerned with improving quality of life, coordinating complex care, and taking patient preferences into account.
Aligning Efforts to Achieve Equitable Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health and Well-Being for Children and Youth
This report issues a call to action for philanthropic organizations and public-sector partners that are ready to move forward in improving mental, emotional, and behavioral health. It describes existing philanthropic and federal initiatives and offers a potential portfolio of aligned strategies for private- and public-sector partners to consider.