Optimal Healing Environments: Creating a Culture of Wellness
This webinar featured organizations that have adopted a holistic healing framework and discussed ways philanthropy can help optimize wellness and prevention.
Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – June
This month’s call was an exchange of ideas on grantmaker roles in outreach and enrollment going forward.
2015 GIH Annual Conference: Call for Sessions
Pathways to Health One of the most exciting things about working in health philanthropy today is witnessing the plethora of strategies that health funders have at their disposal. Most grantmakers share a similar vision: for individuals, families, and communities to achieve health, resilience, healing, and well-being. But there are many routes to that destination. By…
Integrated Care: Building a Skilled Workforce
This webinar discussed the latest research on workforce competencies and shared examples of successful integrated care practices.
Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in Texas
Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in Texas was held on June 3, 2014 in Austin, Texas.
Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – May
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened this learning community for funders who have been supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.
The Affordable Care Act and Pregnant Women
This webinar explored current eligibility levels and benefits that can help improve women’s health, potential coverage gaps for women who may become pregnant or who are pregnant, and potential roles funders can play.
Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York
Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York was held on May 20, 2014 in New York, New York.
Update on the National Dialogue on Mental Health
In June 2013, GIH hosted a webinar on the first stages of the National Dialogue on Mental Health. This follow-up webinar provided an update on the initiative’s activities to date as well as next steps.
Opportunities for Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Care
Opportunities for Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Care was held on May 12-13, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Creating an Integrated Child Health System Using a Population Health Perspective
Creating an Integrated Child Health System Using a Population Health Perspective was held on April 29, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Monitoring the Impact of the ACA
This call examined the convergence of statewide and national research on tracking the impact of the ACA, and explored possibilities to share information and coordinate efforts.
Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – April
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened a learning community for funders who are supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.
Hospital Community Benefits and Community Health Improvement
This audioconference clarified the ACA’s hospital community benefit provisions, including requirements for hospital-sponsored Community Health Needs Assessments, and examined the promise (and potential pitfalls) of leveraging these rules to promote investments in community health.
Collective Impact: A High Performing Approach to Change
This webinar presented the collective impact model, and explored the role of funders in creating and sustaining the collective process.
Achieving Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity
This webinar focused on opportunities for philanthropy to help advance behavioral health equity at the local, state, and national levels.
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.