The Bravewell Report: How Integrative Medicine Is Being Practiced in Clinical Centers Across the US
This webinar discussed The Bravewell Collaborative, the report, and how philanthropy is investing in this emerging field.
Critical Conversations: A Discussion with Don Berwick and Ellen Goodman About End-of-Life Planning
In this call former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Don Berwick and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman discussed The Conversation Project, a new campaign designed to help ensure that end-of-life wishes are expressed and respected.
Engaging Voters to Promote Health
This webinar considered the non-partisan activities that grassroots organizations conduct to increase voter registration and mobilization in traditionally under-represented groups and explored legitimate ways health funders can help support these efforts within existing legal boundaries.
Building the Infant Mental Health Workforce
GIH Behavioral Health Funders Network When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. Central / 11:00 a.m. Mountain / 10:00 a.m. Pacific Who: Judith Meyers, Children’s Fund of Connecticut Deb Weatherston, Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health What: An incredible amount of development occurs during infancy, and what happens during this…
Investing in Interprofessional Team-Based Education for Health Care Providers
In this webinar, participants discussed the importance of interprofessional team-based education in transforming the health care delivery system and learned more about funders already supporting this work.
Returning the Mouth to the Body: Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care
Returning the Mouth to the Body: Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care was held on April 17, 2012.
On the Road to Better Health: County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Part Two
This webinar provided grantmakers with a deep dive into the 2012 County Health Rankings, which were released April 3, 2012.
Inside National Health Reform: The Second Anniversary of the ACA
This webinar engaged John McDonough, a professor of practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and the author of Inside Health Reform, who between 2008 and 2010 served as senior advisor on national health reform to the U.S. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where he worked on passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Making Space for Healthy Communities
This webinar discussed different models for using foundation facilities to support healthy communities, best practices (and mistakes to avoid) in creating mission-enhancing shared spaces, and tools for successfully developing buildings that meet the specific health needs of particular communities.
Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care: A Meeting of Public and Private Funders
Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care: A Meeting of Public and Private Funders was held on March 9, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
2012 GIH Annual Meeting Preconference Sessions
2012 GIH Annual Meeting Preconference Sessions were held on March 7, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
On the Road to Better Health: County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
This two-part webinar series examined the County Health Rankings and strategies for translating the rankings model and data into action that improves the health of communities.
Estimating “Return On Investment” for Policy and Advocacy Funding
This Audioconference explored the findings and methodology of NCRP’s recent report, “Leveraging Limited Dollars — How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results by Funding Policy and Community Engagement,” and considered the implications of this research for health funders.
Funding the Big Idea: How to Build a Coalition to Effect Health System Change
This webinar focused on the development and administration of a new survey on the health of Connecticut residents, how it advances goals of health reform, and the ways funders can effectively collaborate to leverage investments.
Using the Telenovela to Increase Latino Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP
This audioconference explored Encrucijada, and shared how funders could adapt and license the series for broadcast in their own community.
Kids’ Access Funders Network February Call
On this call, Jocelyn Guyer, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families (CCF), discussed the recently proposed ACA rules on eligibility and enrollment systems, and their implications for children and families.
Upcoming Events on Children and Families
SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Advocacy Opportunities
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Grantmakers In Health are forming a funder Working Group for a coordinated, strategic response to the SNAP cuts in H.R. 1. The Working Group comes as an actionable response to insights shared by field leaders in a SNAP-focused webinar earlier in October.
Recognizing the far-reaching implications of SNAP for food security, health, and economic equity, this Working Group will serve as an information hub and a strategic coordination space, designed to help funders act quickly, effectively, and in alignment with one another. We will organize three Working Group meetings to start and then assess next steps.
The first call will focus on opportunities for funders to support and engage in policy advocacy to protect SNAP on a federal and state level. In addition to connecting with peers, funders will hear from Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, who will provide a policy landscape update from D.C., and Joey Hentzler, Program Manager at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, who will share about MAZON’s policy engagement and rapid response funding.
Safeguarding Medicaid and SNAP in the Wake of H.R. 1
As H.R. 1 begins to reshape the landscape of safety programs, charitable foundations face a pivotal moment. The legislation delivers sweeping tax cuts to corporations and high-income earners—while dramatically reducing funding for essential programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These cuts threaten the well-being of millions of families, children, and seniors, and shift the financial burden to already overstretched state and local governments.
Now more than ever, philanthropic organizations must act swiftly and strategically to mitigate harm. A key opportunity lies in supporting states as they navigate urgent administrative and implementation challenges—ensuring vulnerable populations don’t fall through the cracks.