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Paso del Norte Health Foundation

Learn more about The Paso del Norte Health Foundation’s mission, vision, and approach in this Grantmaker Focus profile.

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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation

Learn more about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation’s mission, vision, and approach in this Grantmaker Focus profile.

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Adaptive Leadership: The Next Requirement for Sustainable Community Health Improvements?

Funders have an obligation to go beyond providing programmatic or operational funding. They must play a larger role if they are to contribute to meaningful and sustained change and responsibly steward the resources in their trust.

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Alliance Healthcare Foundation

Learn more about Alliance Healthcare Foundation’s mission, vision, and approach in this Grantmaker Focus profile.

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Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey

Learn more about The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey’s mission, vision, and approach in this Grantmaker Focus profile.

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All Politics are Local: Preemption and Public Health

To accelerate progress toward healthier communities, one of the most important things foundations can do is protect local control by helping their grantees, policymakers, public health advocates and the general public “get smart” about preemption.

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Reports and Publications

Advancing the Public’s Health: Current Philanthropic Approaches and Priorities for the Future

This GIH report is grounded in discussions with a diverse set of philanthropic and public health leaders about the current state of the field. It aims to assess how foundations view public health and their guiding frameworks, as well as to identify lessons learned and priorities for strengthening the public health ecosystem.

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Grantmakers In Health’s 2025 Survey of Health Conversion Foundations

This report provides an updated census of health conversion foundations as well as key results from a web-based survey that Grantmakers In Health (GIH) conducted in 2025.

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GIH Bulletin: April 2026

Sometimes innovation in philanthropy is associated with breakthrough technologies or new medical discoveries. But some of the most impactful investments fund something less visible: the coordination of people, protocols, and institutions already in place so they work together seamlessly to save lives.

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Trustee Resources

Explore this page to browse resources, publications, and events related to foundation trustees.