Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children Webinar
On this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard from advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children
In this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
The Flint Water Crisis: A Primer on Philanthropy’s Role
This webinar explored philanthropy’s role in supporting families in Flint and preventing future crises in other communities, and provided updates about on-the-ground operations, including challenges in reaching all community members.
Supporting Family Caregivers: A Look at State and National Trends
Drawing from Caregiving in the U.S. 2015, this webinar explored the “new normal” of caregiving, which includes millennials, those ages 75 and older, and higher hour caregivers.
Children’s Access and Coverage
The webinar helped grantmakers understand the range of experiences (within and across states) that low-income families face in obtaining children’s health coverage, and considered strategies for improving access to care.
Lessons Learned in Supporting Health Care Quality
This webinar discussed the results of Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s effort to lift the overall quality of health care in 16 targeted markets throughout the country.
Addressing the Behavioral Health Needs of Older Adults
This webinar explored important behavioral health challenges facing older adults, some of the promising practices and interventions being studied and implemented, and opportunities for health funders to make a difference.
Spreading and Scaling Health Care Innovations that Improve Quality and Lower Costs
This webinar discussed efforts to transform U.S. primary care. The Peterson Center on Healthcare, established by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, has identified 10 distinguishing features of primary care practices that deliver high-quality care at a lower-than-average total cost and is examining how to replicate these features in other primary care practices.
Behavioral Health Equity: Advancing Systems Change
The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
Crafting Media Strategies that Accelerate Policy Change
This strategy session at the 2015 Fall Forum examined how the strategic use of media can expedite health policy objectives and will consider how funders can optimize their media investments.
2015 Fall Forum
The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
Partnering to Support Veterans and Military Families
This webinar discussed ways funders can integrate support into existing program areas, and to learn about resources available through the Veterans Philanthropy Exchange.
Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas
Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas was held on October 29, 2015 in Houston, Texas.
Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session
Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session was held on October 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies
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.
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.