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September 11, 2025
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1 in 4 Project Strategy Work Group September 2025 Session

September 04, 2025
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Medicaid’s Role in Preventing & Ending Homelessness

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September 03, 2025
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Rising Heat, Rising Risks: Protecting Farmworkers in a Changing Climate

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August 06, 2025
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Pottstown Regional Community Foundation: August 2025

August 14, 2025
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Collaborating for Impact: Providing Trust-Based Grantmaking and Technical Assistance to Support Local Resilience to Extreme Weather Events

July 11, 2025
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Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Advance a Bold Racial Equity Agenda at a Critical Moment

April 11, 2025
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Latest Resources

Solving the Connecticut Data Deficit through Collaboration

December 17, 2012
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Without data that could be monitored over time, how could those interested in improving the health of Connecticut residents track progress or measure success?

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Rethinking Juvenile Justice: Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Crossover Youth

September 17, 2012
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Over the past decade, the Sierra Health Foundation has invested in community efforts to improve the health and well-being of youth. As they focused efforts around juvenile justice, the foundation believed it to be a critical and opportunity-laden moment in which a regional funder could influence juvenile justice policy and practice across the entire state and perhaps the nation.

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Another Call to Go Upstream: Housing Is Health

July 16, 2012

Research over the decades has indicated that factors, such as education, income, occupation, housing, neighborhood environment, race, and ethnicity, have a powerful influence on health and are often referred to as the “root cause” of poor health.

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Food and Health for All: Health Equity for Agricultural Farmworkers

June 18, 2012

Farmworkers—the hands that grow and supply so much of our daily food—pay a high price with their health and often their lives to provide our nourishment. Living below the U.S. federal poverty level, those who feed our nation are a young workforce facing economic, educational, health, and linguistic challenges.

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The Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality

March 19, 2012
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In 2008 the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided CityMatCH, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the National Healthy Start Association with a $400,000 grant to create the Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality, focused on eliminating racial inequities contributing to infant mortality in U.S. urban areas.

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Healthy Places NC: Better Results through Place-Based Philanthropy

January 23, 2012

Place-based philanthropy brings together a wide range of local actors around an ambitious community-change agenda, with the foundation providing resources to implement key components in whatever strategy the community develops.

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Reports and Publications

Behavioral Health Strategies

August 18, 2025

GIH conducted a survey in late 2024 on funder engagement in behavioral health. This fact sheet, based on a sample of 139 health funders, summarizes the current trends, gaps, successes and challenges for funders. It also highlights philanthropy’s continued commitment to behavioral health while also signaling concern about the upcoming funding environment.  

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2024 Health Equity Survey: Understanding the Changing Landscape

March 19, 2025
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In 2024, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) surveyed its Funding Partners to understand how their health equity work has evolved. The survey consisted of 40 questions including demographic information, program focus areas, partner engagement, organizational strategy, priority population, successes, and challenges. This report summarizes findings from the Health Equity Survey titled, “Understanding the Changing Landscape.”

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2023 Survey Summary: Climate Change Strategies

October 12, 2023
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This infographic summarizes the responses to a Grantmakers In Health funder survey, conducted in May and June 2023, on how philanthropy is addressing climate change, and the barriers and opportunities that exist to support climate-related efforts.

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