GIH Learning Communities provide ongoing opportunities for sharing, networking, and collaborating around specific topics or functions in health philanthropy. Each Learning Community uses its own mix of webinars, in-person meetings, resource sharing, and surveys to provide an in-depth look at its subject. Our current Learning Communities are listed below.
For more information or to join a learning community, please contact info@gih.org.
GIH Learning Communities
Communications Community of Practice
The Communications Community of Practice is designed to help foundation communications staff foster peer relationships, accelerate the sharing of innovative and effective communications approaches, and identify strategies to combat misinformation and disinformation. It offers virtual and in-person learning opportunities; connects peers in the field; and acts as a hub for resources, including sample documents, tool kits, and templates. This community is made possible by the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community
The Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community is designed to explore and expand the adoption of philanthropic strategies to reduce firearm violence. It promotes shared learning and collaborative problem solving, provides guidance and support to funders new to or considering investments in firearm violence prevention, raises the visibility of firearm violence prevention within the field of health philanthropy, and encourages additional investments in related interventions. Made possible by the support of The Joyce Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, the Missouri Foundation for Health, and the Roots & Wings Foundation, this learning community convenes in-person and virtual meetings and facilitates peer-to-peer communications.
CEO Working Group
The CEO Working Group’s objective is to help CEOs address challenging topics in health and philanthropy. These calls or in-person meetings are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Conversations take place virtually throughout the year and in-person at the annual conference. Recent discussions have addressed health policy, health equity, access to health care, and philanthropic growth and impact. This learning community is made possible by the support of the Missouri Foundation for Health.
Policy Staff Roundtable
The Policy Staff Roundtable provides a forum for health funders’ policy-focused staff to come together to share best practices, ask each other questions, and learn from common experiences. This is an informal group that prioritizes peer dialogue, relationship building, and candid communications and meets virtually periodically throughout the year and in-person at the annual conference.
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Strategic Guidance
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E-Forums
GIH E-Forums are designed to help health funders share best practices and connect with peers on the issues and challenges that matter most.