Healthy Aging Meetings

Grantmakers In Health and Grantmakers In Aging convened a series of three meetings from April 4-7, 2016 in Rochester, Buffalo, and Utica.

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Using Housing as a Platform to Improve Health

This webinar discussed how foundations are collaborating across sectors to address housing barriers, and supporting innovative approaches such as permanent supportive housing.

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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.

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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.

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2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 9-11, 2016 in San Diego, California.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities?

How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities? was held on December 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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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.

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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.

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Behavioral Health Equity: Advancing Systems Change

The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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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.

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2015 Fall Forum

The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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LGBT Health Funding Summit

The LGBT Health Funding Summit was held from November 19-20, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

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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.

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Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas

Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas was held on October 29, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

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Building Healthy, Strong, and Vibrant Neighborhoods

This webinar presented concrete examples of how foundations can partner with community development corporations and community development financial institutions to improve neighborhood conditions and address the social determinants of health.

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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.

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

Funder Briefing: Healthcare Access for Immigrant AANHPI Women+

As immigration enforcement intensifies and economic pressures mount under the newly passed tax bill, immigrant Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women face growing challenges to accessing affordable and culturally responsive healthcare and safety net programs. The increase in workplace raids and fear of detention and deportation has profoundly impacted AANHPI immigrants that many refrain from leaving their homes to seek medical care, go to work, or even attend school, deepening inequities in immigrant communities. This webinar will bring together policy experts, community leaders, and funders to discuss the critical role of Medicaid in immigrant communities with an emphasis on the intersecting effect of immigration status, gender, economic strain, and healthcare access.

Join us to explore actionable strategies for philanthropy to strengthen safety nets, advance immigrant health equity, and ensure that immigrant AANHPI women are not left behind during the changing political climate.

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Climate, Health, and Food: Empowering Communities to Work at the Intersections

Join us for a conversation with Environmental Health Watch and Sprout, two communities that are successfully putting this mode of action into practice. They will share strategies on how they are responding to climate change, health, and food security at the same time, showing what is possible when philanthropy stops treating these issues as separate and allows communities to truly work at the intersections.

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Mental Health Meets Firearm Safety: Innovative Strategies to Reduce Firearm Suicide

Firearms are involved in 55 percent of suicides in the United States, accounting for more than 27,000 deaths every year as documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.  Yet this crisis remains largely invisible in public discourse. This webinar makes the case that the tools to act are already within reach.

This webinar brings together practitioners, funders, and public health leaders working at the intersection of mental health and firearm safety. Hear how mental health systems can integrate firearm access screening across the continuum of care, and why culturally responsive assessments are essential to making these approaches effective and equitable. Learn from Stanislaus County’s firsthand experience adopting this model and join a candid conversation about the funding strategies, system changes, and community partnerships that make this work possible. 

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