Advancing Health Equity with Harm Reduction Strategies

On this webinar, funders learned how harm reduction approaches are being effectively implemented in community health centers and other settings, with a particular focus on services supporting homeless individuals and women with behavioral health conditions.

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What Funders Need to Know About “Public Charge”: An Analysis of the Published Rule

In this webinar, participants discussed the recently proposed “public charge” rule would allow federal officials to consider immigrants’ use of Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Program, and several housing programs in determining whether to deny entry into the United States or make adjustments to legal permanent resident status. Listeners learned more about the proposed rule and discussed ways that funders can take action.

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Medicaid Waivers: An Update

On this webinar, funders learned about approved and pending Medicaid waivers, explored the response to flexibilities such as work requirements and managed care contracting, and discussed how foundations might work within these processes to promote health outcomes and protect consumers.

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HEAL Funder Learning Community Meeting #3

This third convening of the GIH HEAL Learning Community was held September 24-25, 2018 in Richmond, Virginia.

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Expanding Family-Friendly Workplace Policies

This webinar discussed the emerging policy consensus and current efforts to make comprehensive paid leave a reality across the country.

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Open Enrollment: Challenges and Strategies

During this webinar, funders learned how to share outreach and enrollment tactics, available resources, and potential strategies to overcome anticipated obstacles.

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Ensuring that Medicaid and CHIP Meet the Needs of Vulnerable Children

This webinar reviewed the latest policy updates, forecasted gaps, and opportunities to protect Medicaid and CHIP coverage for children with special health care needs and children in immigrant families.

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Improving Health Outcomes by Connecting to the EITC: A Conversation for Funders

On this webinbar, funders learned about the importance of EITC in improving health, explored examples of how philanthropy is engaging in this work, and increased cross-sectoral connections between health and economic security funders.

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The Critical Role of Medicaid for People with Disabilities

On this webinar, funders heard an overview of Medicaid’s role for this critical population; understood the potential impact that new policies—such as basing Medicaid eligibility on employment—may have on people with disabilities; and discussed recent delivery system changes, such as the movement to commercial managed care.

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Invitation to Innovation Funder Call Series – July

As part of our collaborative Invitation to Innovation initiative, Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health cosponsored a monthly series of funders-only discussions focused on the challenges of and opportunities for improving care for people with complex health and social needs.

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Replicating Global Maternal and Child Health Innovations in the United States

This webinar taught participants about domestic maternal and child health innovations adapted from global initiatives.

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

1 in 4 Project Strategy Work Group September 2025 Session

This webinar is hosted by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

Join us for a strategic conversation on how funders can respond to the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025 and its impacts on immigrant children and their families. The law’s profound harms are far-reaching; among other things, they include extensive cuts to health care, nutrition assistance, and other public benefits; skyrocketing immigration fees; decreased protections for unaccompanied minors; and increased funding for immigration enforcement.

We will examine emerging movement and field responses to these cuts and explore opportunities for aligned strategy and coordinated action. In addition to hearing from speakers on this issue, we will also hold space for work group members to share the challenges you are facing and strategies you are employing to support immigrant children and their families.

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Roundtable on Advancing Health Equity and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Philanthropy

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us in continuing the conversation on advancing health equity, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion in health philanthropy. This is a dedicated time for collaboration, learning, and action for program staff leading health equity efforts at their foundations (open to funding partners only).

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Medicaid’s Role in Preventing & Ending Homelessness

While it was never the pathway to ensuring health care as a human right unto itself, Medicaid inarguably saves lives. Millions would be homeless if not for the services Medicaid supports, and those who experience homelessness rely on it to survive. But the federal government has drastically threatened Medicaid’s power. Join this webinar for a timely discussion on how Medicaid prevents and helps to end homelessness, the status of federal funding for Medicaid, state-level opportunities for organizing, and what philanthropy can do to mitigate the harms of defunding this crucial component of the social safety net. Speakers include Michelle Schneidermann of the California Health Care Foundation and Bobby Watts of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

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