Self-Assessment for Health Foundation Boards
This webinar explores why foundations should consider a board self-assessment process and how this practice contributes to organizational effectiveness.
Creating Resilient, Equitable, and Age-Friendly Communities
This in-depth conversation explored efforts to create more resilient, equitable, and age-friendly communities, including the evidence-based CAPABLE model.
Rural Health Leadership Group
During this third conversation in GIH’s leadership series on rural health, GIH President and CEO Cara James convened rural leaders to advance recovery in rural areas and to increase philanthropic investments in those regions.
Supporting Seriously Ill Elders in the COVID Era
This webinar discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic, examples of best and promising practices and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and what funders of all levels of experience serving these populations can do to make a difference.
Tools that Heal: Core Competencies for Frontline Complex Care Providers
In this webinar, Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health discussed recommendations for strengthening the complex care field and opportunities for health and aging philanthropy to support complex care providers.
Virtual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting
Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held the 2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health virtual meeting on June 3 and 4, 2021.
Achieving an Affordable Health Care System
This webinar offered an overview on current cost drivers in the health care system, how policy teams in various states are tackling this work, and which populations are particularly at risk.
Expanding Telehealth Equitably
This timely conversation identified the limitations of telehealth and explored how philanthropy can help make this service delivery mode more equitable for all.
Addressing the Mental Health Epidemic: Mindfulness, Healing, and Resiliency Strategies
This timely conversation dives into the current mental health landscape; highlights cost-effective, prevention-oriented programs; and shares insights on the future of mental health and roles for health funders.
COVID-19 Philanthropy: Measuring One Year of Giving
This webinar highlighted key findings from a new report by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid. An update of Philanthropy and COVID-19 in the First Half of 2020, it examines how much funders gave, who they gave to, and what issues they supported.
Mental Health and Substance Use Funders Roundtable
This networking session offered an overview to connect and learn from other funders working in the Behavioral Health Funders Network and the Substance Use Funders Collaborative.
Impacts of Rising Uninsured Rates and COVID-19 on Latino Children and Families
This webinar offered an overview of the health coverage status of Latino children and families, including opportunities to support and advocate for this vulnerable population.
Upcoming Events on Population Health
Health Care Policy in 2025: What Comes Next?
President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law on July 4, 2025, enacting historic cuts to Medicaid, the ACA marketplace, SNAP, and more – via work requirements, copays, and stricter eligibility verifications. According to analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, the new law will increase the number of people without health insurance in the United States by 11.8 million by 2034. Health policy experts warn that these changes will exacerbate health access issues, worsen health disparities, and threaten the financial viability of rural hospitals.
In this webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners will provide an overview of the recent legislation, the impact on health and health care, and what foundations can do to support communities and nonprofits in the next six months. Speakers include Laura Pence, Sara Singleton from Leavitt Partners, and Kristina Ramos Callan from Health Management Associates.
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.