LGBT Health Funding Summit

The LGBT Health Funding Summit was held from November 19-20, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

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Partnering to Support Veterans and Military Families

This webinar discussed ways funders can integrate support into existing program areas, and to learn about resources available through the Veterans Philanthropy Exchange.

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Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas

Advancing Children’s Health Care in Texas was held on October 29, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

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Building Healthy, Strong, and Vibrant Neighborhoods

This webinar presented concrete examples of how foundations can partner with community development corporations and community development financial institutions to improve neighborhood conditions and address the social determinants of health.

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Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session

Building Public-Private Partnerships to Enhance Disaster Resilience: A Listening Session was held on October 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies

Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies was held September 29-30, 2015 in Sacramento, California.

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Advancing a Public Health Agenda for Native Communities

This webinar discussed the findings of the report, Seven Directions: A Blueprint for Advancing the Health and Wellness of Our Native Communities, and shared their insights and ideas about how philanthropy can help achieve health equity for Tribal and Urban Indian communities.

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Making a Difference in Addressing the Graying of HIV and AIDS

This webinar provided an overview of the changing face of HIV and aging, including how HIV manifests among older adults, with a particular emphasis on diverse racial, ethnic, and geographical communities across the country.

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Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities

This webinar discussed what the Surgeon General hopes to accomplish with his Call to Action, what the recommendations are and the science behind them, what the Call to Action means for health funders, and how grantmakers can play a role in the work ahead.

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Fostering Partnerships to Improve Native American Health

This webinar explored how foundations can foster meaningful partnerships with tribal communities and support strength-based approaches to improve the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

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Improving Integrated Care with Digital Technology Tools

This webinar discussed the opportunities and challenges health systems face when incorporating new technology in integrated care programs.

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Beyond Medicine: Strengthening Community Wellness Approaches

This webinar discussed foundation roles in strengthening prevention and disease management by addressing often overlooked factors such as stress, sleep, nutrition, and lifestyle.

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Advancing Indigenous Farmworker Health Care

This webinar explored collaborative partnerships and the integrative work happening across multiple sectors, which is helping increase the access of health care for farmworker communities.

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Provider Perspectives on Improving Health Care

As the health care landscape shifts with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are being asked to experiment with new ways to improve access to care, fix the delivery system, and help build a healthier society. This webinar explored a variety of health care provider perspectives on what it will take…

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Using Digital Technology to Promote Healthy Food Access

This webinar explored how digital technologies can improve health outcomes by increasing consumer knowledge and empowering consumer decisionmaking.

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Conversation with the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services

This webinar addressed children’s access to health care, and featured Anne Marie Costello, Acting Director, Children and Adults Health Programs Group at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.

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Tackling the Social Determinants of Health through Place-Based Initiatives

This webinar explored how health foundations are using place-based strategies to help create healthy and equitable communities. Participants discussed the challenges associated with place-based approaches, and heard how funders are building on past comprehensive community change initiatives.

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Improving Access to Healthy Food in Rural Communities

During this webinar funders learned about strategies to improve access to healthy food in rural communities, ranging from partnerships with community development finance institutions to local policy change efforts.

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Mental Health Literacy: Changing the Community Conversation

This webinar discussed the Campaign to Change Direction, a national initiative to raise awareness about mental health and create a common language for recognizing the signs of emotional suffering.

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Vital Signs: Exploring the New IOM Report

In the new report, Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress, the Institute of Medicine identifies a set of standardized measures, along with steps for implementing and refining them. This webinar discussed the report’s recommendations and discuss potential roles for philanthropy.

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Upcoming Events on Health Equity and Social Justice

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: Health Funders Communication and Policy Staff

Grantmakers in Health is pleased to host a second joint call for the GIH Policy Staff Learning Community and the GIH Communications Staff Learning Community. We will discuss the importance of communicating about policy changes in meaningful ways that engage communities and partners. In this informal conversation, we will swap strategies, illuminate solutions, and make connections. We will also use the time to dig in on a topic that was raised during the January 27 call: supporting policy, messaging, or other work related to the upcoming elections (such as governors’ races, mid-terms, ballot initiatives, etc.).

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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? During our roundtable discussion we connected with peers, explored pressing issues, and shared experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Between calls, members interact with one another in GIH’s online learning community for policy staff.

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