HEAL Learning Community Call 1.24.18

Listen to the Jan 24, 2018 HEAL Learning Community call.

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Age-Friendly Communities and Rural America: The Transportation Challenge

This webinar taught us from two foundations and a local Association of Governments that have embraced the fundamental issue of rural aging transportation, how they have begun to build and fund programs, and discussed the importance of partnerships in rural America.

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Reflections on the Health Care System

On this webinar, Dr. Berwick shared his latest reflections on the future of quality improvement, including what’s at stake, possible directions forward, opportunities for leadership, and the importance of keeping sight of the long-term vision of optimizing health care system performance.

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Better Care for Complex Needs: Priorities for the Field

This webinar taught us more about the development and evolution of The Playbook along with five priorities that funders may consider as they explore opportunities to improve care for people with complex health and social needs.

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Charting a Climate, Health, and Equity Agenda

Charting a Climate, Health, and Equity Agenda was held on November 14, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Fall Forum: Strategies for Tumultuous Times

The 2017 GIH Fall Forum was held November 9-10, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

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Policy Strategies to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

This webinar covered the current state of sugar-sweetened tax campaigns and tax policy implementation, the returns on investment sugar-sweetened beverage policy efforts have for foundations and their communities, and how grantmakers of all sizes and levels of policy experience can become involved in efforts to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.

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Incorporating Harm Reduction Strategies in Behavioral Health Grantmaking

Funders on this webinar discussed best practices, gaps, and emerging issues in applying harm reduction policies to substance use grantmaking.

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CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage October Call

On this CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage call,  Lori Lodes of Get America Covered and Sue Sherry of Community Catalyst discussed the upcoming open enrollment period, outreach efforts, and available resources.

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Food Is Medicine: Research, Policy, & State of the Field

On this webinar, participants learned about the “food is medicine” approach and its historical roots, the state of the science, details of a new three-year study funded by California’s legislature, and how “food is medicine” has evolved into a national effort to make medically-tailored meals an essential health benefit.

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Measure Something: Evaluation for Everybody

This presentation takes as its starting point Dr. Atul Gawande’s charge: “If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.”

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Implementing Patient and Family Engagement

On this webinar, funders learned about the core principles and key elements of patient and family engagement, as well as new strategies for driving action towards effective implementation of this critical concept.

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The Cost of Unaffordable Water

In this webinar, participants learned about the threats of unaffordable water, how advocates have organized to confront the problem, and ways communities can pioneer solutions.

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Health Care for Immigrant Communities

On this webinar, legal and policy experts discussed the basics of immigrant eligibility, the barriers immigrant communities face, and what funders should consider doing at a time of major changes in immigration enforcement and widespread fear within immigrant communities.

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HEAL Learning Community Call

Listen to the Sept 21, 2017 HEAL Learning Community call.

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Addiction and Mental Health Policy Update

This webinar included an update on the latest federal and state behavioral health policy issues, as well as a discussion of how philanthropy can best respond in these uncertain times.

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Collective Impact: Lessons Learned for HEAL Funders

This webinar showed two experienced funders and their grantee partners about how they implemented an effective collective impact strategy in different contexts, the lessons learned and challenges met along the way, and the key takeaways they have for funders and communities looking to replicate their successes.

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Scaling Evidence-Based Programs to Address Chronic Illness

This webinar taught what the New York State Health Foundation and the National Council on Aging have learned about increasing the capacity and reach of promising programs for older adults, how these lessons are applicable to other people with or at risk for chronic illnesses, and the way this work can contribute to better outcomes for all.

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2017 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2017 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from June 21-23 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Upcoming Events on Philanthropic Growth & Impact

1 in 4 Project Strategy Work Group September 2025 Session

This webinar is hosted by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

Join us for a strategic conversation on how funders can respond to the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025 and its impacts on immigrant children and their families. The law’s profound harms are far-reaching; among other things, they include extensive cuts to health care, nutrition assistance, and other public benefits; skyrocketing immigration fees; decreased protections for unaccompanied minors; and increased funding for immigration enforcement.

We will examine emerging movement and field responses to these cuts and explore opportunities for aligned strategy and coordinated action. In addition to hearing from speakers on this issue, we will also hold space for work group members to share the challenges you are facing and strategies you are employing to support immigrant children and their families.

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Roundtable on Advancing Health Equity and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Philanthropy

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us in continuing the conversation on advancing health equity, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion in health philanthropy. This is a dedicated time for collaboration, learning, and action for program staff leading health equity efforts at their foundations (open to funding partners only).

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Medicaid’s Role in Preventing & Ending Homelessness

While it was never the pathway to ensuring health care as a human right unto itself, Medicaid inarguably saves lives. Millions would be homeless if not for the services Medicaid supports, and those who experience homelessness rely on it to survive. But the federal government has drastically threatened Medicaid’s power. Join this webinar for a timely discussion on how Medicaid prevents and helps to end homelessness, the status of federal funding for Medicaid, state-level opportunities for organizing, and what philanthropy can do to mitigate the harms of defunding this crucial component of the social safety net. Speakers include Michelle Schneidermann of the California Health Care Foundation and Bobby Watts of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

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