LGBTQ and Racial Equity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
This plenary covered recent policy threats affecting LGBTQ and BIPOC communities and explored how philanthropy can help build alliances that change systems and advance health equity for all.
Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy and the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy 2022 Recipients
This special plenary luncheon honored the winners of GIH’s 2022 awards: Janice B. Yost and Evelyn Delgado.
Advancing Equitable, Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
This dynamic conversation explored the challenges people with serious illness face in receiving quality care, why addressing these needs is critical to achieving health equity, and where there are opportunities for philanthropy to chart a better path forward.
2022 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: 40 Years Together and Focused on the Future
Our opening plenary reflected on health philanthropy’s last 40 years and discussed the current state of health care, public health, and the challenges ahead.
Caring for Our Health Care Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for Philanthropy
This webinar helped participants to better understand the landscape of health care workforce needs, discuss the strategies that attendees are currently engaged in, and highlight the ways philanthropy can build on existing state and federal efforts to ensure a comprehensive response.
Accelerating Healthy Aging Through Impact Investing
Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health codesigned a webinar that taught participants about strategies to structure and deliver capital to drive and sustain solutions.
Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health
Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were pleased to convene the Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health meeting on June 2 and 3, 2022.
Millions of Children Still at Risk of Losing Health Insurance Coverage
Despite recent progress toward expanding health insurance access for families, millions of children are at risk of losing coverage when the public health emergency comes to an end.
Aligning Foundation Communications to Restore Trust in Public Health
Communications professionals connected for a series of candid, confidential, and unscripted discussions designed to strengthen our alignment and explore the potential for collective action.
Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Workforce for Children and Families
Participants explored multi-year initiatives that build the capacity of community health centers to deliver high-quality, evidence-informed, trauma-responsive, integrated behavioral health care to children and adolescents.
Trends in Routine Vaccination and Preventive Services for Children
A robust conversation was held on evidence to date about missed immunizations and well-child visits, gaps in data, and implications for children’s health and public health.
The Long View: Operating in Complexity
Codesigned by The Rippel Foundation and Grantmakers In Health, this webinar featured Carolyn Wang Kong of Blue Shield of California Foundation. She shared how the foundation infuses adaptive learning cycles, experimentation, and the centering of lived experience into its approach of operating in complexity.
Reinforcing the Safety Net: Ensuring the Future of 340B
This webinar focused on the critical role the 340B Drug Pricing Program plays in financing health services in the United States.
Addressing the Urgency of Youth Mental Health
This webinar explored issues our youth are facing and uplifting ways that philanthropy can take action to support youth mental health, especially in ways that are culturally responsive and center collective healing.
Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies
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.