CMS Update on Health Insurance Marketplaces

On this webinar, participants heard the latest from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on their outreach, education, and enrollment plans for the health insurance marketplaces, including the newly available on-line educational tools at healthcare.gov.

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Access = Health: A Conversation on Funding Access to & Retention in Care with AIDS United

This conversational case study discussed ways to discover how new grantee collaborations reach beyond HIV/AIDS to improve the total wellness of communities and individuals most impacted by the epidemic.

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Better Together: EITC and ACA

On this webinar, speakers discussed opportunities for health funders and economic security funders to complement one another’s outreach efforts.

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How to Talk about Medicaid Expansion in Your State

On this webinar, Bruce Lesley of First Focus joined the GIST/GCYF/GIH Communications Collaborative to provide an update on the status of the Medicaid expansion, as well as advice about how funders might improve communication about Medicaid expansion in their states.

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National Dialogue on Mental Health

This webinar discussed the Obama administration’s new national initiative to increase awareness of mental health and reduce the stigma that too often prevents people from seeking care.

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Consumer Assistance in the Health Insurance Marketplace

On this webinar, participants learned about navigators and in-person assistors: their roles, responsibilities, training, and financing.

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Equity for All: Elevating LGBT Health

Equity for All: Elevating LGBT Health was held in Chicago, Illinois on June 14, 2013.

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Building a Strong Foundation: Creating and Communicating a Health Equity Grantmaking Strategy

Building a Strong Foundation: Creating and Communicating a Health Equity Grantmaking Strategy was held in Chicago, Illinois on June 13, 2013.

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ACA Impact Survey

Like many funders, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is interested in learning how the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects important outcomes such as coverage, access, and affordability, and believes that state-level estimates are important to this monitoring effort. On this webinar, participants learned more about this opportunity.

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Understanding the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program

On this webinar, GIH and Funders Concerned About AIDS explored the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, the $2 billion dollar federal investment that provides care & services to half a million People Living with HIV/AIDS each year.

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Federally-Facilitated Health Insurance Marketplaces

On this webinar, participants learned more about the Administration’s current plans for the implementation of federally-facilitated health insurance marketplaces, and participated in a funder-led discussion on the potential roles of philanthropy.

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Coordinated School Health: Opportunities to Support Healthy, Active Schools

This webinar discussed innovative approaches to promoting and implementing the coordinated school health approach, as well as opportunities for funders to support coordinated school health programs, especially those focused on promoting HEAL.

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Healthy Food Choices in SNAP: Financial and Other Incentives to Change Purchasing Patterns

Healthy Food Choices in SNAP: Financial and Other Incentives to Change Purchasing Patterns was held on May 14, 2013

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Latinos and Health Care: Assets and Opportunities in the South

Latinos and Health Care: Assets and Opportunities in the South was held from May 9-10, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Optimizing the Role of CBOs in Public Health Insurance Outreach and Enrollment

In 2009 The Colorado Trust launched a three-year, $3.3 million strategy to enroll traditionally hard-to-reach populations of eligible children into public health insurance programs. This webinar described the successes and challenges of that outreach and enrollment strategy, focusing on the findings of a multiyear evaluation study.

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Innovative Crossroads: The Intersection of Creativity, Health, and Aging

Innovative Crossroads: The Intersection of Creativity, Health, and Aging was held on May 1, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

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Leveraging Federal Matching Funds

This webinar reviewed the general concept of matching federal funds, identifying the advantages, the challenges, and a few model approaches.

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Leveraging the BP Settlement Health Outreach Program to Address Disparities in the Gulf Coast

On this webinar, funders learned more about the opportunities to leverage the BP investment to promote health among those affected by the oil spill.

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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): An Issue at the Heart of the Food/Ag/Health Nexus

This call shared a farmers’ perspective on GMOs, highlighted where the science stands and described why GMOs are a concern for many working in public health.

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U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health

A new report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine synthesizes available research, taking an in-depth look at this disadvantage in health and lifespan. On this webinar, we heard from the report’s editors about key findings and discussed implications for the work of health grantmakers.

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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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