Healthy Food Financing Initiatives: Lessons from Ohio on a Growing National Movement

On this webinar participants learned where the HFFI movement is today, how it has quickly adopted diverse and creative solutions to meet the unique needs of communities, how funders of all shapes and sizes can play an important role in developing and implementing HFFIs, and key lessons learned from Ohio’s experience in developing its Healthy Food for Ohio initiative.

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Funding Across Networks to Build Health Equity

Funding Across Networks to Build Health Equity took place on December 6, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

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Involving Youth in Efforts to Improve Population Health

In this webinar, listeners learned about how young people are catalyzing and contributing to initiatives that are focused on policy and community change.

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The Election’s Impact on Medicaid

In this webinar–given the results of the general election–the focus of this strategic conversation shifted to a preliminary discussion on the future of Medicaid.

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Adapting Your Health Reform-Related Grantmaking Post-Election

Funders participated in a strategic call and heard early thinking on health reform-related grantmaking in the wake of the recent election.

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Strength in Numbers: Building Coalitions to Advance Policy Change

The 2016 GIH Fall Forum was held on November 15, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

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Connecting the Dots between Transportation and Health Equity

This webinar explored how foundations, local communities, and other cross-sector partners are working together to address the intersections of health and transit.

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Chronic Absenteeism: What Are We Missing?

This webinar explained why chronic absenteeism is of interest to health funders, how philanthropy and federal agencies are tackling the issue, and how foundations and corporate giving programs can become involved in driving solutions.

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Accountable Health Communities

This webinar discussed the “accountable communities of health” model, examples of projects that embrace it, and how its development and implementation is being supported by both public and private funding.

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Community-Based Health Systems: Using Housing as a Platform

This webinar explored how housing-based service models address the social determinants of health, promote population health, and advance health care systems change.

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Community Health Needs Assessments that Advance the Social Determinants of Health

This webinar explored the range of strategies hospitals are using to incorporate the social determinants of health into CHNAs and discussed how funders can partner with hospitals to support these efforts.

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Improving Health Outcomes for Seniors in Rural Communities

In this webinar, participants learned about an innovative telemedicine program supporting optimal healing and wellness for older adults in seven states that focuses on providing proactive medical care to avoid unnecessary transfers, hospitalizations, and read missions.

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Meeting Substance Use Needs with Medicaid Expansion

Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. This second strategic conversation in a series discussed progress in the 19 remaining states.

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Building Healthy Communities: Reducing Children’s Exposure to Environmental Toxins

This webinar discussed how exposure to environmental toxins effects the health of all children, why they are often an unseen barrier to the work of health funders, and how grantmakers can incorporate an environmental health lens into their efforts to build healthier communities.

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Next Steps in Health Equity: Addressing Racial and Economic Inequality

Next Steps in Health Equity: Addressing Racial and Economic Inequality was held on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in New York, New York.

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Care for All: Supporting Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and the Home Health Care Workforce

Care for All: Supporting Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and the Home Health Care Workforce was held on July 18, 2016 in New York, New York.

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2016 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture shows how they empower youth to be a part of the conversation about Type 2 Diabetes and have reshaped that conversation in compelling and creative ways. Hodari Davis of Youth Speaks and Dean Schillinger of the University of California, San Francisco discuss The Bigger Picture – a unique collaboration between their two…

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Mental Health and Addiction Policy Briefing

This webinar updated participants on the latest mental health and addiction policy issues, including efforts to address the opioid epidemic, parity law implementation, youth prevention, and public education initiatives such as Mental Health First Aid.

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Upcoming Events on Philanthropic Growth & Impact

Maternal Mental Health and Immigrant and Refugee Women, Parents and Communities

Pregnant and parenting immigrant, migrant, and refugee women are navigating a landscape marked by uncertainty, fear, and systemic exclusion—conditions that profoundly affect their physical and mental health during the perinatal and postpartum periods and throughout their lifespan. Amid increasingly punitive immigration policies, including family separation, detention, and deportation without due process, these women and their families face extraordinary challenges that endanger their mental health and wellbeing and that of their children. Compounding these harms are policy barriers such as the public charge rule, attacks on birthright citizenship, and exclusion from health coverage and other vital services. These stressors contribute to a growing but under-recognized crisis in maternal mental health, with long-term consequences for families and communities.

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Urban Wildfires in Los Angeles – Health and Environmental Impacts and Community-Led Solutions

Wildfires are not only environmental disasters, they are health, housing, and economic crises that magnify systemic inequities in frontline communities and expose deep gaps in public response, infrastructure, and policy. The people most vulnerable to displacement, pollution, and climate impacts are also those leading the charge toward just, restorative solutions. From neighborhoods downwind of wildfire burn zones, to frontline communities burdened by cumulative pollution and climate risks, Los Angeles residents are facing overlapping environmental and public health threats. Yet, they are organizing for transformation: land stewardship, public health protections, clean-up and remediation strategies, and job pathways rooted in care, not extraction.

This webinar will ground the issue of urban wildfires in LA within the broader fight for environmental justice, public health, and climate resilience. It will also illustrate the urgency and opportunity for funders to invest in intersectional, community-based strategies that address the root causes and aftermath of climate disasters—strategies that build long-term capacity, advance a restorative economy, and ensure the most impacted communities shape the future of resilience. 

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Developing a Funding Strategy In Response to SNAP Cuts

The scale and scope of the $186 billion in SNAP cuts included in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) are staggering and could force millions to lose their benefits. There is a need to identify clear national, state, and local strategies for diverse capital partners to address the structural harm to SNAP and widespread negative impacts on hunger, health, nutrition and economic security posed by this legislation. 

For the first 45 minutes of this call, speakers will share insights into emerging needs for advocacy, technical assistance, strategic communications, and other areas, in both the short and long term. Following Q&A with our panel, there will be a funder-only conversation to reflect on how organizations are responding, what is being funded, and how we could collaborate. 

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