CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions under the new administration.

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CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to have convened the CEO Working Group on April 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions under the new administration. These calls were open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations.

On this webinar, we were joined by Dr. Rich Besser, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on the topic of funders communicating their values and using their voice during these critical times. We were also joined by a strategic communications firm to discuss approaches and resources for that work. Philanthropic leaders then had the opportunity to share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice.

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2025 Annual Budget and Tax Briefing

Join the Economic Opportunity Funders for the opportunity to network with colleagues and learn about and discuss the new political environmental and its impact on social policy, key battles and opportunities at the federal and state level, coordinated efforts underway to shape the budget and tax fights ahead, implications for philanthropy in the short and long term, and strategies for individual and collective action.

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Black Disabled Leadership: Essential Yet Overlooked

Join the Disability and Philanthropy Forum for a discussion with Black disabled leaders on how philanthropy can support Black disabled communities.

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The Arts and Changing Political Landscapes

Join Grantmakers in the Arts for an insightful discussion on new research at the intersection of arts and public policy, exploring the intense debates over government support for the arts during the 1990s.

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Protecting Race-Explicit Programming Series: Navigating the Current Legal Landscape

Join Asian Americans / Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy for the second session of the learning series where we will have a conversation about the current state of the law and how litigation has been used successfully and unsuccessfully to expand or constrain civil rights.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The #SaveHIVFunding Campaign: An Urgent Need for Rapid Response

In 2023, the #SaveHIVFunding campaign was launched in response to an unprecedented proposal to cut $767M in federal HIV funding. Ultimately, the defense of critical HIV programs was successful, and all proposed cuts were removed from the final FY24 spending bill. For FY25, new cuts have been proposed, and the campaign has been relaunched. Join this webinar for a discussion on the major threats faced by the HIV field at the federal level, plans to expand the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, and learn how funders can defend federal funding to end the HIV epidemic. Speakers include Michael Chancley of PrEP4All, Joseph Cherabie, of the Washington University-St. Louis, Jenny Collier of the Collier Collective, Noelle Esquire of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Mitchell Warren from AVAC.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pathways to Economic Inclusion: Exploring the Intersection of Tax, Health, and Family Well-Being

Tune in for a timely discussion that delves into the critical connections between tax equity, health equity, and family well-being. This webinar offered an overview of the 2025 tax landscape, examining key topics such as the proven power of cash-based initiatives to improve health outcomes, the ability to scale these efforts in the form of federal tax credits, and the opportunity for collective action to advocate for a more equitable revenue system.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Equitable Approaches to Firearm Violence Prevention Research and Evaluation

The Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence is a network of dozens of multidisciplinary researchers across academic and other research organizations that engage in and promote rigorous, culturally-responsive, and equitable research on community violence. The Collective is developing an equitable research framework designed to guide community-engaged research in and with Black and Brown neighborhoods impacted by gun violence. This webinar explored the context that motivated the framework and its development, examined opportunities and challenges with using an equitable research framework, and provided concrete and practical examples of how the framework can be used and applied in community violence prevention research projects.

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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.

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Weathering the Storm: Health Funders’ Role in Climate Emergency Response

This webinar featured firsthand experiences from health funders who were directly impacted by extreme weather events. Watch the recording to gain valuable insights into the challenges faced by these funders in responding to the crises, the strategies they implemented in collaboration with affected communities, and the actions they are taking in the face of future climate disasters.

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Upcoming Events on Population Health

1 in 4 Project Strategy Work Group September 2025 Session

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 and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Philanthropy

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to invite you to join us in continuing the conversation on advancing health equity, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion in health 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

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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