The Art & Science of Health Grantmaking 2011

The Art & Science of Health Grantmaking was held from June 6–7, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Mental Health Financing in the United States

This webinar reviewed the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured’s recent publication Mental Health Financing in the United States: A Primer.

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Backseat Budgeter

This webinar featured a demonstration of Backseat Budgeter® and a discussion of how and why it can be a useful tool for health funders.

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Know Your Care

On this webinar, funders discussed Know Your Care, a 501(c)(3) organization launching a communications campaign to educate key constituencies about the Affordable Care Act’s consumer and patient protections, using research-based messaging and real stories to ensure understanding of the law.

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CLASS: Exploring the Program and Role of Foundations

This webinar explored the features of CLASS, describe recent polling data about public opinion on the program, and demonstrate how funders can get involved by building continued support for the program.

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Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters

On this call, funders heard about IOM’s recommendations to standardize and make improvements to data sources and measures of health and health care quality for children and adolescents.

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It’s Never too Early to Prevent Childhood Obesity

This audioconference provided an overview of promising strategies for intervening as early as possible in efforts to prevent obesity in children.

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“Aligning Forces for Quality” and Supporting Payment Reform

This audioconference was designed for funders within the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) regions (an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) and described ways local funders can partner with their local AF4Q alliance around payment reform and improving health care quality.

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The Consumer Voice in Behavioral Health: A Powerful Tool

Do you use consumers as consultants or hire consumers as employees? The speakers on this webinar each discussed their own recovery perspective and how this experience benefits their current work, and shared strategies to incorporate the consumer voice into foundation activities.

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Schools as Venues for Improving Oral Health

On this webinar, speakers highlighted the potential of school-based health centers to offer oral health care, provided examples of innovative programs, and shared recommendations for how foundations can best support this work, in addition to discussing oral health strategies and the challenges faced when working with schools.

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Health, Housing, and Community Development: Aligning Ideas and Priorities

On this audioconference, funders learned about HUD’s approach to creating sustainable communities, which marks a shift in the agency’s spending, policies, and programs.

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Frameworks for Transforming Systems and Improving Health Outcomes

This audioconference provided an overview of the Triple Aim framework for integrative and transformational change, which was launched under the former leadership of Don Berwick at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

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“Where the Rubber Meets the Road” and the Affordable Care Act Fund

On this GIH audioconference, Robert Phillips from The California Endowment, Sara Kay from The Nathan Cummings Foundation and Karen Quigley from Community Catalyst discussed both the report and the Fund and ways that foundations may want to consider them in their work and funding decisions.

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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act: A Briefing for Funders

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which covers all federal child nutrition programs (including school meals) and helps ensure that children from low-income families receive healthy food, has been signed into law. This webinar served as an update to the related webinar GIH held before passage, and included a briefing on what is in the bill and ways for funders to support implementation, fill gaps, and otherwise promote child nutrition.

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IOM Report on the Future of Nursing

This GIH webinar explored key messages framing the most recent IOM report’s recommendations. Presenters reflected on how foundations can act on specific recommendations as well as provide support for implementation efforts at the local, state, and national level.

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Developing State-Level Healthy Food Financing Initiatives: New Examples from California and New York

Building on Pennsylvania’s well-established Fresh Food Financing Initiative and the federal government’s recently launched Healthy Food Financing Initiative, California and New York have developed similar programs in their own states to offer tax credits, below-market rate loans, loan guarantees, and grants to organizations providing healthy foods to under served communities.

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Adapting to Change in the Political Landscape of State Government

Results of the recent election have significantly altered the political map for state governments. This audioconference considered the implications of these political shifts for health policy and explored how health funders are responding to changes in the political landscape.

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Health Reform & Medicaid: Opportunities to Improve Behavioral Health

This webinar examined opportunities to improve behavioral health.

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HRSA’s New Prevention Center for Healthy Weight and Healthy Weight Collaborative

On this Webinar, funders learned about the wide variety of opportunities available to collaborate with HRSA, from identifying promising practices, to convening, to funding.

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

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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