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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Fourth Annual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting

Fourth Annual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting was held May 23-24, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

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Moving the Needle on Medicaid Expansion

Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Your grantmaking colleagues held a strategic conversation about making progress in the 19 remaining states.

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Strategic Learning: Pacesetting Practices

This webinar discussed key findings from interviews that Episcopal Health Foundation staff conducted with leading peer funders who have navigated this shift. We also learned about the Colorado Health Foundation’s experience of developing a learning practice, including lessons learned and suggestions for others who want to get started.

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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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Upcoming Events on Population Health

Steady Voices in Unsteady Times: Strategies for Communicating in Crisis

Communicating effectively in times of crisis is essential for maintaining public trust and organizational reputation. It can also minimize the spread of false or misleading information. This virtual workshop is designed to support health funders’ efforts to effectively communicate while managing potential risks of ideologically- and politically-driven threats. Beth Tritter and Chrystal Okonta from FGS Global will lead the program. Participants will learn how to prepare for a communications crisis and test drive practical tools for managing and responding. Working in groups, participants will also work to address a plausible and timely challenge using best practices and core principles of effective crisis response.

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CEO Discussion on Emerging Challenges

Health funder CEOs are grappling with a fast-changing operating environment affecting many aspects of their work. As a response, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is convening a special webinar on Monday, October 6 at 4:30pm ET to help CEOs navigate philanthropy’s emerging challenges and share resources GIH has created to assist in meeting the moment. We will be joined by GIH’s legal advisors, who will provide a rundown of the current legal landscape, as well as representatives from FGS Global, GIH’s crisis communications consultants. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions, share concerns, and provide insights.

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CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs

It is a difficult time for many, but especially for those who are new to their role. Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in October, to offer foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years the opportunity to discuss the challenges they are facing as new CEOs with one another and seasoned leaders in the field. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice.

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