Funding the Fight for Immigrant Rights in 2025 and Beyond
Join this webinar to learn about funding opportunities to protect the safety, security, and well-being of populations under assault, support rapid response and mutual aid interventions, bolster legal representation and litigation efforts, resource organizing, advocacy, and power-building funds and campaigns, and more.
Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff
Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences supporting legal advocacy to advance policy change.
GIA & GIH Funder Briefing on the Older Americans Act Reauthorization
Despite bipartisan attempts until the 11th hour, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024 was not passed. With a new Congress and Administration, there is a new landscape for what may come next for the OAA and other important health and aging policies. Join us for an update on OAA reauthorization, a discussion of national aging policy and funding, and GIH and GIA’s plans for supporting OAA reauthorization and other important aging policies in 2025. Speakers include Amy Gotwals of USAging and Marci Phillips of National Council on Aging.
Executive Order on DEI: What Nonprofits and Philanthropies Need to Know
Join this webinar for a discussion on how this action affects nonprofits and philanthropy. Legal expert Emily Cuneo DeSmedt of Morgan Lewis will provide valuable insights to help nonprofits and philanthropies understand this order.
Health Care Policy in 2025: What to Expect from Congress and the Trump Administration
In this timely webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners provided an overview of what to expect from Congress and the Administration, focusing on key legislative priorities and executive actions, and shared their predictions for what to watch over the first 100 days. Speakers addressed the role that budget reconciliation could play in shaping the nation’s policy landscape, the implications for funders, and the challenges and opportunities presented while navigating this expedited process.
CEO Working Group Webinar
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to share election reflections and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations.
Medicaid: Protect and Defend
Participants learned about what policy changes and funding cuts are possible with the incoming presidential administration and the 119th U.S. Congress. Presenters shared reflections and suggested opportunities for funders to protect and defend this vital program.
Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff
Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your perspectives on how election results are likely to influence your organization’s approach to policy change.
2024 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting
Participants will have the opportunity to connect with one another, share ideas, and discuss how combined efforts can produce better outcomes for rural communities.
Connecting Pediatricians, Families, and Schools for Thriving Youth
Leaders from the field explored how EdNavigator connected across systems to solve education challenges for children and youth in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington, DC, and how this cross-systems approach was a game changer in enabling children and youth to access the services they needed to thrive in school.
CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to have convened the CEO Working Group in October, which offered 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.
Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff
This informal roundtable discussion connected funders with peers, explored pressing issues, and participants shared experiences leveraging rulemaking and other administrative processes to advance policy change.
Upcoming Events on Behavioral Health
SNAP Funder Working Group: Food Restriction Waivers
This Working Group Call will examine the rise of state waivers restricting the type of food that can be purchased with SNAP benefits, how retailers are navigating these changes, and what we might learn from the evaluations. To date, USDA has approved food restriction waivers in 22 states and incentivized waiver applications by tying them to increased funding for the Rural Health Transformation Program. USDA claims that these waivers are meant to “restore nutritional value in SNAP.” However, five SNAP recipients in Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee, and West Virginia sued the department in March, challenging these restrictions as harmful, unlawful, and burdensome.
Speakers from the National Governors Association, the National Grocers Association, and the University of Illinois Chicago will discuss the state-level decision-making process to apply for a waiver, the impact of these waivers on retailer participation in SNAP, and the public and private evaluation methods being used to assess whether the restrictions have any meaningful impact on nutrition for participants. The Center for Science in the Public Interest will also share strategic thinking about how they are exploring opportunities to engage in this continuously evolving political climate.
CEO Working Group Webinar
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, or Executive Directors. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.
Passed in July 2025, H.R. 1 is now entering its implementation phase, with significant implications on state operations and budgets—particularly related to changes in Medicaid and SNAP programs. In this webinar, we will explore H.R. 1 implementation with two organizations that are dedicating resources to tracking its impact and supporting states as they respond. Speakers include: Alison Betty of alignco, Patti Boozang of Manatt Health, and Timothy Shaw of Aspen Institute.