Foundations on the Hill 2025
At Foundations on the Hill, we bring together PSOs, foundations, sector leaders, and advocates to strengthen our collective impact on federal policy. This signature event provides an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with legislators and policymakers while building lasting relationships within our sector.
2025 EGA Federal Policy Briefing
Join timely discussions with grantmaking peers and insights from decisionmakers to support you in resourcing strategic organizing, mobilization, and essential collaboration. Session topics will offer thoughtful reflections on the state of play, engagement with policy architects, and analysts that can guide your priorities and support strategies for sustainable water, food systems, transportation, energy, in this stage of democracy.
Holding the Line of Defense in Florida by Building Local Power
Join this webinar to learn from a panel of leaders about opportunities for philanthropy to resource this movement at the state and local levels.
Looking to 2025: What Does a New Congress Mean for Philanthropy?
Join this webinar to learn about the dynamics of the new Congress and how the Council on Foundations expects the shifting policy environment to impact philanthropy. Plus, speakers will discuss the upcoming 2025 tax bill and how to ensure philanthropy’s priorities are included.
Safeguarding the EPA while Building Power for Environmental Health and Justice
Join this webinar for a learning and strategy conversation designed for funders. They will discuss what is happening at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), what’s at stake, and what actions funders can take—both through immediate funding and longer-term power-building strategies.
Defeating the DOGE Agenda: Combating the Threats to Social Security and Medicare and More
Join Groundwork Collaborative’s Lindsay Owens and Public Citizen’s Lisa Gilbert on Tuesday, February 4 for an insightful webinar exposing the real agenda behind Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and how philanthropy can respond to its threats.
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.
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.
2025 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting
10/2/2025 Update: Due to the federal government shutdown, our federal government colleagues may be unable to attend this meeting. GIH and NRHA will co-host the Tribal Health Funders Workshop and Annual Meeting, and the meetings will proceed as scheduled. Thank you for your patience as GIH and NRHA works to update the meeting to reflect…
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.
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.
CDC Injury Center at Risk – What’s Ahead?
This webinar examined the Injury Center’s vital activities, explored potential threats to future capacity, and considers the role of health funders in supporting the Injury Center’s continued ability to track trends, conduct research, raise awareness, and implement prevention programs in partnership with states, localities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations.
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.
Upcoming Events on Health Equity
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.