Closing the Gap in Childhood Obesity: A Forum Without Walls

Closing the Gap in Childhood Obesity: A Forum Without Walls was held on May 8, 2014 in Newark, New Jersey.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How Do We Save Recess?

This webinar provided funders with an update on what some are calling a “War on Recess” and discuss different policy and program strategies being implemented to help keep recess in schools.

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Using Technological Innovation to Promote Community Wellness: A Strategy for Equity

This webinar explored the opportunities for health funders to support digital health innovation as a strategic approach that enhances community wellness and promotes racial and ethnic health equity.

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2014 GIH Annual Meeting

The 2014 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held March 5-7, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community February

The call gave members a chance to learn about the types of evaluations that are being funded, get their questions answered, and share their experience and insights with colleagues.

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What’s on Deck for Kids’ Access in 2014?

This call focused on in-depth discussion of the research and advocacy priorities for children’s access in 2014.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – January

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health convened a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in Maryland

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children was held on January 14, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community December

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health is convened a learning community for funders supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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What Natural Disasters Could Mean for Water, Agriculture, and Health

In this webinar, participants discussed the devastating impacts natural disasters have on communities across the world, focusing on examples of various natural disasters in the United States, and what these disasters have meant or could mean for food security, the environment, and human health.

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Improving Mental Health Conditions Worldwide

This webinar discussed the WHO Quality Rights Project and offered participants the opportunity to view a live demonstration of the recently launched MiNDbank database, a new online platform for the sharing of resources in mental health, human rights, disability, and development.

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Wellness in the Health Care Workforce

On this webinar, participants learned about innovative approaches to support wellness in the health profession including The Healer’s Art, a course which explores topics such as mindfulness, deep listening, grief, healing, and self-care and is now taught in half the nation’s medical schools as well as several countries abroad.

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Investing in Early Childhood

On this webinar, funders learned about a new Child Trends report’s key findings, the McCormick Foundation’s challenge, how one funder has joined this challenge, and how other funders can get involved.

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Scaling-Up: Connecting Effective Nonprofits to Capital: Part Two

Part 2 of this series focused on the Social Impact Exchange and its work to scale proven solutions to critical social problems.

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

Roundtable on Advancing Health Equity

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us in continuing the conversation on advancing health equity within 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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2026 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

Every year, GIH brings together the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy to discuss the important issues facing the field.

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

A growing number of health funders employ staff whose responsibilities focus exclusively or predominantly on public policy engagement. Do you lead your organization’s policy or government affairs work? Participants joined this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Agenda forthcoming.

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