Standing Together: Philanthropy’s COVID-19 Relief Funds and Immigrant Communities

This webinar featured a dive into the findings and a discussion on how foundations can prepare for future relief efforts.

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Terrance Keenan Institute Alumni Network Convening

Grantmakers In Health was pleased to convene the Terrance Keenan Institute alumni network for a dialogue exploring how health funders are investing in people, becoming more creative about the roles foundations can play, and rethinking risk.

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The Power of Intergenerational Health and Wellness

This webinar explored how grantmakers can increase the impact of their investments by supporting multigenerational solutions.

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CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage Quarterly Call

Grantmakers In Health convened the CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage to strategize about philanthropy’s role in addressing challenging topics.

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Nutrition Incentives: Lessons and Opportunities to Improve Healthy Food Access

This webinar discussed how these effective nutrition incentive programs have enabled vibrant public-private partnerships across the country, the current state of the field and research, and the opportunities for health funders to leverage these opportunities to improve healthy food access.

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Advancing Social Connections for All

This discussion covered how philanthropic leaders can support the redesign of community-level systems to advance meaningful social connections.

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Preparing for the End of the Public Health Emergency: State Strategies for Coverage Retention

This webinar explored the key issues that states will face at the end of the PHE and strategies that are being designed to ensure families no longer eligible for Medicaid will not go uninsured.

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Strong, Healthy Communities: Reaching Beyond Health Care

This session, the third in the series Designing a Roadmap for a Post COVID-19 Recovery Centered on Health Equity, was designed to stimulate new thinking and identify strategic actions that can be taken to advance health equity and racial equity as the nation rebuilds after COVID-19.

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Engaging Faith Communities to Improve the Health and Well-being of Communities of Color

This webinar discussed how the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), by partnering with AARP and others, has worked with faith leaders and community-based organizations in Louisville, Kentucky to build trust in the health care system and improve health outcomes.

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Rural Health Leadership Group

During this fourth conversation in the GIH leadership series on rural health, we learned about key resources available for rural communities through the American Rescue Plan. Including large federal funding programs that are seeking applications, or will be rolled out in coming months.

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COVID-19’s Long Tail: Developing a Mental Health Strategy for Recovery

On this webinar participants explored how funding is sensitive to the disparate impacts of COVID-19 and discuss ways that funders can be advocates for the mental health needs of individuals, families, and communities that have suffered multiple losses due to weather-related disasters, pandemics, and economic suffering.

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Elevating Equity in Children and Families Grantmaking

In this on-demand webinar, participants will hear about one funder’s efforts to ensure that all families have access to the resources they need to raise thriving children, with a health equity lens at the center of their internal and external work.

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Caring About Care Workers: Essential to the Future of Health

Join us for an on-demand conversation featuring community-based leaders and funders about why investing in care workers is vital to the future of health and our economy. This panel also explores the policy opportunities that can drive change in the nation’ s pandemic recovery and innovative local practices that can lead to greater health, racial, and gender equity.

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Health Across the Life Course: Mobilizing New Opportunities

This session, the second in the series Designing a Roadmap for a Post COVID-19 Recovery Centered on Health Equity, was designed to stimulate new thinking and identify strategic actions that can be taken to advance health equity and racial equity as the nation rebuilds after COVID-19.

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

This meeting focused on the current state of food and nutrition incentives, with a particular emphasis on the impact of the pandemic and the future of these interventions. The meeting featured Oran Hesterman, Noah Fulmer, and Katie Jones of Fair Food Network.  

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2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Embedding Rural Issues in Equity Conversations

Tim Putnam, Chief Executive Officer of Margaret Mary Health, and Justin Maxson, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture discuss embedding rural issues into equity conversations, in a conversation moderated by Nashville Health Founder and Chairman, Senator Bill Frist.

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2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Carolyn Wang Kong & Tiffany Hall

Carolyn Wang Kong, Chief Program Director of Blue Shield of California Foundation, accepts the 2021 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy. Tiffany Hall, Executive Director of Recover Alaska, accepts the 2021 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.

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2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: A New Behavioral Health Paradigm

Arthur Evans, Jr., American Psychological Association, discusses the need for a new behavioral health paradigm at the GIH annual conference, Building a Just and Equitable Future.

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2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Climate Change, Health, and Equity

Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director of UPROSE, discusses climate change, health, and equity at the GIH annual conference, Building a Just and Equitable Future.

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2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Reprioritizing Public Health

Mona Hanna-Attisha, Founder and Director of Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities of The California Endowment discuss reprioritizing public health in a conversation moderated by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust President Laura Gerald. 

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

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

Cosponsored with Funder for Maternal Mental Health (FMMH)

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 does not 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.

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Health Equity Roundtable: October Convening on Immigration and Philanthropy

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us for a continued conversation on advancing health equity. This is a dedicated time for collaboration, learning, and action for program staff leading health equity efforts at their foundations and is only open to GIH Funding Partners.

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Environmental Health, Data Centers, and the Case for Equity in the Southeast

This webinar opens with a grounding in the region’s environmental health landscape and what the data center build-out means for community health. The conversation then turns to a community leader, whose work has reshaped national policy, followed by a funder with investment in environmental health, who will share what meaningful partnership and effective philanthropy look like on the ground.

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