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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

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Going Beyond Grants to End Health Disparities

January 9, 2012

Several years ago, Hallmark Health System, which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and is located north of Boston, realized it had a substantial challenge: while its patient population had changed dramatically in terms of language and culture, its staff and management had not.

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Creating Healthier Communities to Reverse Childhood Obesity

January 9, 2012
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Learn how the YMCA’s Healthier Communities Initiatives, which include Pioneering Healthier Communities, Action Communities for Health, Innovation, & Environmental Change, and Statewide Pioneering Healthier Communities, are helping to address the obesity epidemic.

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Disparities in Food Access and in Opportunities for Physical Activity

September 19, 2011

This article discusses the causes for the rising tide of preventable chronic disease, not only in Massachusetts but across the country. It also highlights some of the key factors that have produced this change and the parts of the population that are often more affected.

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An Unprecedented Health Challenge Working with Border Communities

August 12, 2011

The Paso del Norte region is experiencing an unprecedented public health challenge – over the past three years, more than 8,000 individuals were murdered in Ciudad Juárez.

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Creating Common Ground: Working Together for Food Systems Change

May 23, 2011

A growing number of segments of the philanthropic community are paying attention to the food system and its interconnectedness with other major health, environmental, justice, and community issues.

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Ingredients for a Healthy School Lunch Movement

November 12, 2010
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From a comfortable distance, the solution to the childhood obesity problem sounds deceptively easy: children need to move more and eat healthier foods. Yet, as you examine the many causes of childhood obesity, the simple solution is not quite as simple as it sounds. Encouraging children to adopt healthy habits is challenging because unhealthy eating and sedentary lifestyles are engrained in our culture.

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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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