Protecting the Freedom to Give
November 18 – 21, 2025 • Arlington, VA
The GIH Health Policy Exchange annually provides policy-engaged funders with information on current issues, access to leading thinkers, and connections with grantmaking peers. The 2025 theme was Protecting the Freedom to Give. Against a backdrop of recent federal funding cuts, executive orders, and threats to philanthropy, it is more important than ever for health funders to educate, advocate, and collaborate to support the people, places, and things that are important to us.
Upcoming Convenings
2026 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting
Grantmakers In Health (GIH), the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Rural Health are excited to announce the 2026 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting: September 23 – 25, 2026 at the Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriot HQ. Registration link, meeting agenda, and information about lodging will be shared at a later date. For general questions about the Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership (RHPP) Meeting, please contact us at ruralhealthphil@hrsa.gov. If you are interested in being on the planning committee for the RHPP meeting, please email Alexa Ofori at aofori@hrsa.gov by Friday, March 20.
Past Convenings
The Changing Health Policy Landscape
Attendees of the Families USA Health Action Conference from February 16-18 in Washington, DC, were invited to sit down with GIH President and CEO Faith Mitchell and staff for an open dialogue about the changing health policy landscape.
Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Solutions
Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Solutions was held on February 9, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
2016 Fall Forum – Strength in Numbers: Building Coalitions to Advance Policy Change
The 2016 GIH Fall Forum was held on November 15, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Care for All: Supporting Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and the Home Health Care Workforce
Care for All: Supporting Older Adults, Family Caregivers, and the Home Health Care Workforce was held on July 18, 2016 in New York, New York.
Healthy Aging Meetings
Grantmakers In Health and Grantmakers In Aging convened a series of three meetings from April 4-7, 2016 in Rochester, Buffalo, and Utica.
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children
In this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
Upcoming Events
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