CEO Working Group Webinar

December 09 2024

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.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: The Role of Health Care Providers and Systems

September 09 2024

This virtual convening of the Learning Community focused on the role of health care providers and systems in firearm violence prevention efforts and ways health philanthropy can support this work. Featured speakers included: Amy Barnhorst, MD, Associate Director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center and Director of the BulletPoints Project and Chethan Sathya, MD, Medical Director for Trauma at Cohen Children’s Medical Center and Director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention at Northwell Health.

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Better Health for All: The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Health Equity – Online Workshop 3

October 23 2024

Participants Joined us for this special virtual series and uncovered how we could collectively move towards an inclusive approach to health philanthropy. The leader of the field and participants who joined the webinar explored learning about the challenges in health philanthropy and social justice. They addressed power dynamics and foster authentic community engagement in their initiatives. 

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Better Health for All: The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Health Equity – Online Workshop 2

October 09 2024

Are you interested in learning about the current challenges in health philanthropy and social justice? Do you want to ensure authentic community engagement in your initiatives? Join us for this special virtual series and uncover how we can collectively move towards an inclusive approach to health philanthropy.

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Better Health for All: The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Health Equity – Online Workshop 1

September 25 2024

Are you interested in learning about the current challenges in health philanthropy and social justice? Do you want to ensure authentic community engagement in your initiatives? Join us for this special virtual series and uncover how we can collectively move towards an inclusive approach to health philanthropy.

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Better Health for All: The Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Health Equity – Introductory Webinar

September 18 2024

This was the first virtual convening of a four-part series where participants learned about the challenges in health philanthropy and social justice. Leaders of the field ensured authentic community engagement in their initiatives and uncovered how they could collectively move towards an inclusive approach to health philanthropy.

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Funder Meetup: Older Americans Act Reauthorization Updates

August 01 2024

This virtual briefing provided an update on our activities, the latest intel on the OAA reauthorization, and a preview of upcoming opportunities to learn about and influence aging funding and policy.

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How Expanding School-Based Medicaid Can Support Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing

June 27 2024

Participants in this webinar learned how expanding school-based Medicaid can be a game changer for supporting youth well-being — and how funders can help catalyze action. Speakers included Sarah Broome, Schmidt Innovation Fellow, and Elizabeth Duncan, Education Program Consultant, Healthy Schools, Louisiana Department of Education.

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Investing in Inclusion: The LGBTQ+ Community & the Census 

June 13 2024

Participants learned about how key gaps in federal data collection have left advocates, policymakers, researchers, and others without critical insights into disparities, opportunities, and the effectiveness of interventions designed to advance equity for LGBTQ people.

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Beyond Grantmaking: How Aligned Funder Action Can Get Results

May 16 2024

Join the Lead Funders Action Network (LFAN), a Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) funder collaborative, for an enlightening webinar that traces the evolution of our collaborative investments into a robust federal policy campaign. Initiated in 2017 with support from the JPB, Joyce, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, LFAN has been strategically navigating the complex landscape of childhood lead poisoning prevention, which impacts over 500,000 children in the U.S.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Centering Community Leadership

May 13 2024

This second virtual convening of the Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community focused on the critical importance of community leadership in crafting and implementing firearm violence prevention efforts.

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One Year Later: Medicaid Enrollment After the End of the Public Health Emergency

May 14 2024

Participants joined this webinar to hear about the status of Medicaid enrollment one year after the public health emergency ended.

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NCOA Age + Action 2024

May 06 2024

On May 7, 2024, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) and Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) cohosted a funders-only meeting at the National Council on Aging’s Age + Action 2024 conference. The session, “Driving Change through Public-Private Collaboration,” focused on bridging connections between the public and private sectors to improve the health and well-being of older adults in the U.S.

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Birth Equity Funders Summit: Aligning Strategies to Advance Equitable Birth Outcomes

June 11 2024

This summit, designed exclusively for funders, provided comprehensive strategies, tools, playbooks, and deep learning opportunities, while fostering immediate implementation and collaboration. Acknowledging the underrepresentation of professionals from ethnically marginalized backgrounds, including BIPOC grantmakers, we supported, empowered, and created a safe space for these voices. Participants took away tangible insights and clear expectations for advancing equitable birth outcomes.

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Advocacy for the Older Americans Act Reauthorization: What Can My 501c 3 Foundation Do?

April 04 2024

Participants convened for a workshop that provided a clear understanding of what advocacy activities your 501(c)(3) organization can engage in, what communications count as lobbying, and how to maximize your non-lobbying advocacy. 

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Responsible and Equitable Use of Artificial Intelligence by Foundations

April 09 2024

Participants joined this discussion to learn about the collaborative process that resulted in this first version of the framework and to gain a deeper understanding of the framework’s design principles and how they foster equity, transparency, and responsible AI adoption.

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State-based Advocacy for the Public’s Health

March 14 2024

Participants joined this informal discussion to learn about the state of public health advocacy, what funders are currently doing to bolster public health advocacy, and what they can do.

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Food and Nutrition Policy in Indian Country 

April 04 2024

Participants learned about the federal and state policy landscape at that time, opportunities and challenges facing advocates, and community-based strategies that were making a difference in communities across Indian Country.

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Funding Like You Want to Win: Philanthropy & Movement Investments

March 14 2024

In this conversation, we heard from leaders at the forefront of efforts to build a more inclusive, healthier, safer, and more prosperous multi-racial democracy, as well as learn from foundations that have embraced movement-centered strategies.

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1 in 4 Project Strategy Work Group September 2025 Session

September 04 2025

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

September 11 2025

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us in continuing the conversation on advancing health equity within 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

September 03 2025

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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