Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders

This webinar reviewed the latest research and policy issues, explored key findings from a recent report, Lifting the Burden of Addiction: Philanthropic Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders in the United States, and discussed ways funders can help improve substance use prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery supports.

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Food Marketing to Children

This webinar explored the latest national trends and the state of the field, promising approaches to public policy and working with industry to reform practices, and potential strategies for foundations of any size to make a difference.

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Can Mobile Applications Improve Health Outcomes?

This webinar discussed the potential of mobile health apps, how vulnerable populations tend to apply this technology, and one approach that is working to improve health outcomes.

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How States Strengthen Local Food Systems

This webinar discussed a recent report, Harvesting Healthier Options: State Legislative Trends in Local Foods 2012-2014, which examines state legislation enacted between 2012 and 2014 in all 50 states that aimed to strengthen various components of local food systems.

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Healthy Aging Meetings

Grantmakers In Health and Grantmakers In Aging convened a series of three meetings from April 4-7, 2016 in Rochester, Buffalo, and Utica.

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Using Housing as a Platform to Improve Health

This webinar discussed how foundations are collaborating across sectors to address housing barriers, and supporting innovative approaches such as permanent supportive housing.

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Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children

In this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.

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Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children Webinar

On this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard from advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.

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2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 9-11, 2016 in San Diego, California.

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Supporting Family Caregivers: A Look at State and National Trends

Drawing from Caregiving in the U.S. 2015, this webinar explored the “new normal” of caregiving, which includes millennials, those ages 75 and older, and higher hour caregivers.

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Children’s Access and Coverage

The webinar helped grantmakers understand the range of experiences (within and across states) that low-income families face in obtaining children’s health coverage, and considered strategies for improving access to care.

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Lessons Learned in Supporting Health Care Quality

This webinar discussed the results of Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s effort to lift the overall quality of health care in 16 targeted markets throughout the country.

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How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities?

How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities? was held on December 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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Addressing the Behavioral Health Needs of Older Adults

This webinar explored important behavioral health challenges facing older adults, some of the promising practices and interventions being studied and implemented, and opportunities for health funders to make a difference.

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Spreading and Scaling Health Care Innovations that Improve Quality and Lower Costs

This webinar discussed efforts to transform U.S. primary care. The Peterson Center on Healthcare, established by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, has identified 10 distinguishing features of primary care practices that deliver high-quality care at a lower-than-average total cost and is examining how to replicate these features in other primary care practices.

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Behavioral Health Equity: Advancing Systems Change

The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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2015 Fall Forum

The 2015 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 19-20, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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Crafting Media Strategies that Accelerate Policy Change

This strategy session at the 2015 Fall Forum examined how the strategic use of media can expedite health policy objectives and will consider how funders can optimize their media investments.

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Upcoming Events on Population Health

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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