Enrolling Young Adults: Outreach and Education Strategies From The Field

This webinar discussed the ways in which health foundations are poised to play a significant role in supporting state and local efforts to enroll all eligible residents into health insurance exchanges.

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2012 Fall Forum: Health Care Transformed: Better Delivery for Those Most in Need

The 2012 GIH Fall Forum was held from November 15-16, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

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Next Steps for Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care

Next Steps for Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care was held on November 14, 2012.

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Protecting Our Nation’s Public Health Successes: Community Water Fluoridation

Using fluoridation as an example, this webinar explored how funders can address these real challenges to our nation’s public health institutions and build support for their continued existence and expansion.

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Innovative Approaches to Wellness for Veterans and their Families

On this webinar, participants learned more about innovation approaches to health and wellness for military members, veterans, and their families; why this issue is important; and why foundations are investing in it.

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The Sustainability of School-Based Health Care

On this webinar, speakers discussed the variables–and vagaries–associated with school-based health care sustainability, including which program characteristics and public policies best assure long-term fiscal health.

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Start Smart: Healthy Weight in Early Childhood

Start Smart: Healthy Weight in Early Childhood was held on October 16, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

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Investing in Adolescent-Centered Health Care to Address Risk Behaviors

On this call, Harriette Fox and Peggy McManus of The National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health reviewed what is important to adolescents when it comes to their primary and behavioral health care, innovative models that address multiple risk behaviors, and priority areas for related research.

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Forging Common Ground in Oral Health

On this webinar, Alliance Founding Board members Ralph Fuccillo of the DentaQuest Foundation and Steve Kess of Henry Schein, Inc. shared more about the work of the Alliance and why their organizations have contributed to support the common ground mission.

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Innovating Care for Chronically Ill Patients

This webinar described the different populations of chronically ill patients, what we know about innovating quality care for them, and new opportunities within the Affordable Care Act to enhance outcomes and slow the growth in costs.

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2012 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy

2012 Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy was held October 2-3, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

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Aligning Our National Narratives During an Election Year and Beyond

The Communications Collaborative held a webinar to share the alignment of larger narratives around government and the economy and to provide state policy and advocacy networks access to the information and tools available to support their work.

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Roots of Health Inequity

This webinar introduced health funders to Roots of Health Inequity, a Web-based course developed by the National Association of County & City Health Officials.

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50+ and Hungry in America: Funders’ Briefing Call

This call featured short overviews of the AARP Foundation’s research into older adult hunger, its work helping older adults enroll in benefit programs like the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and its grantmaking/funding programs.

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A Strategic “Field Building” Approach to Advocacy Investments

This webinar examined the key dimensions of a strong advocacy field, reviewed how funders can diagnose gaps or weaknesses in an integrated field, and explored grantmaking strategies that help grantees contribute to and benefit from the field’s collective capacity.

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Innovations Summit: Understanding and Addressing Population Health

Innovations Summit was held on September 19, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

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From Awareness to Action: Building Greater Public Will for HEAL

On this call Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner of the Metropolitan Group and Tracy Faigin Boyle of LiveWell Colorado discussed social marketing and public will building for HEAL.

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Investing in Opportunities and Assets: Lessons from the South for the Nation

Investing in Opportunities and Assets: Lessons from the South for the Nation was held September 6-7, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Briefing on Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field

This audiconference focused on GIH’s latest report, Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field, which highlights funder strategies along a continuum of upstream and downstream approaches to address health disparities.

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State Innovation Models Initiative

This webinar looked at the State Innovation Models initiative and offered time for funders to reflect upon upcoming opportunities for coordination and collaboration.

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Upcoming Events on Oral Health

Trump Accounts (530A Accounts) & Early Asset Building: Funder-Only Briefing

Hosted by Asset Funders Network and presented in partnership with Grantmakers In Health,  Economic Opportunity Funders, Tax Equity Funders Network, and Early Childhood Funders Collaborative.  As asset funders, we know that starting early – in childhood – is the best way to create wealth and savings. That’s why we continue to pay close attention to…

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New Vaccine Guidance: What Funders Should Know

Join us for a timely webinar exploring the Department of Health and Human Services’ recent changes to routine vaccinations. Experts will discuss the evolving pattern of vaccine recommendations, including the January 5 update to the Childhood Immunization Schedule, which reduces the number of routinely recommended vaccines and introduces new categories for highrisk groups and shared decisionmaking.

Our speakers will discuss what these changes mean for vaccine access, what to expect moving forward, and how crosssector partners are collaborating to ensure continued coverage. We will also highlight opportunities for philanthropy to get involved.

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SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Strategic Communications Operations

Our upcoming Working Group Call will focus on strategic communications opportunities. Elizabeth Wenk, Principal and Managing Director, and Nick Seaver, Senior Vice President and Co-Director of Training Programs at Burness, will share new insights from message testing about SNAP that highlights messaging that moves audiences, insights on which arguments resonate and counter opponents, and how different groups respond to these messages. The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Food, Agriculture, and Rural Economies team will also share what they are hearing from state legislators advocating for SNAP, and how funders can support state policymakers’ efforts to protect the program.

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