Featured Resources

bi3 Article: Trust-Based Philanthropy is Grounded in Mutual Accountability and Learning

A new article shows how applying a trust-based philanthropy lens helps funders capture the full impact of grants, describes how bi3 evaluates initiatives, and how building funder-grantee relationships grounded in power-sharing, transparency, and mutual accountability helps achieve greater impact.

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New Competency Model for Foundation Program Officers Released

The Dorothy A. Johnson Center on Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University has released a competency model for foundation program officers.

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Taking A cultivate approach to Improve Community Health

Health foundations are increasingly recognizing that their mission is not simply to award grants to deserving nonprofit organizations, but rather to play a catalytic role in improving the conditions that influence health, especially at a population level.

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Peer Assessment: A Pilot Program for Health Philanthropy

This GIH Issue Focus discusses GIH’s new peer assessment pilot program.

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Health Philanthropy and Communities: Grantmakers Share Their Views

This GIH Issue Focus recaps a preconference session at the GIH Annual Meeting, in which Sue Bunting (Foundation for Seacoast Health), Ed Meehan (The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust), and Patricia O’Connor (The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati) addressed the role of foundations in communities.

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Building Consensus Around a Health Funding Agenda

This GIH Issue Focus explores consensus building as a critical means of effective problem solving in society.

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GIH 1998 Survey of Foundations Created by Health Care Conversions Sheds New Light

This GIH Issue Focus presents a summary of the preliminary findings of GIH’s 1998 Survey of Foundations Created by Health Care Conversions.

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Strategic Initiatives: Finding Your Niche

This GIH Issue Focus answers common questions about strategic initiatives and provides examples to highlight the wide variety of health grantmaking being conducted through these initiatives.

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Philanthropy’s Newest Members: Findings from the 1999 Survey of New Health Foundations

This GIH report presents findings from our 1999 survey of new health foundations.

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Coming of Age: Findings from the 1998 Survey of Foundations Created by Health Care Conversions

This GIH report shares findings from our 1998 survey of foundations created by health care conversions.

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Health Care Conversion Foundations: 1997 Status Report

This 1997 report provides a status update on health care conversion foundations.

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