Past Events

2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Advancing Health Equity for the Homebound

Friday, Jun 04, 2021

Older adults who are homebound are often socially isolated, have unmet care needs, and suffer high mortality—and being homebound is not uncommon. In 2011, data showed that more older adults were homebound than living in nursing homes. This Quick Take will highlight the epidemiology and characteristics of homebound older adults, a population often invisible to society, and discuss why funders should include the homebound in their efforts to advance health care equity.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Closing the Gap: Evaluating Rural Communities with a Health Equity Lens

Friday, Jun 04, 2021

Using Healthcare Georgia Foundation’s The Two Georgias Initiative as a guiding framework, this Quick Take will explore the role of philanthropy and intermediaries, innovative evaluation tools and resources, and lessons learned about what it takes to build rural community capacity to measure health equity impacts.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Debt as a Social Determinant of Health

Friday, Jun 04, 2021

In this Quick Take, the Asset Funders Network will explore the burden of unmanageable debt arising from longstanding systemic inequities that degrades health and wealth for people of color.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Good Food Purchasing: A Roadmap for the Post-Pandemic Food System We Need

Friday, Jun 04, 2021

This Quick Take will share and highlight key pillars for successful food system transformation using values-based procurement; stories of leadership, innovation, and perseverance; recommended actions and investments needed to accelerate change at the scale and pace we need; and a vision for movement building, policy, and action to transform our food system over the next ten years.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Measuring What Matters to Older Adults

Friday, Jun 04, 2021

This Quick Take will share and highlight key pillars for successful food system transformation using values-based procurement; stories of leadership, innovation, and perseverance; recommended actions and investments needed to accelerate change at the scale and pace we need; and a vision for movement building, policy, and action to transform our food system over the next ten years.

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Meetings

Virtual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting

Thursday, Jun 03, 2021 - Friday, Jun 04, 2021

Meetings

Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held the 2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health virtual meeting on June 3 and 4, 2021.

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How Does Climate Change Affect Children’s Mental Health?

Thursday, May 27, 2021

This webinar explored both the effects of climate change on children’s mental health and the variety of approaches funders can take to build children’s resiliency and support the connections with community, adults, and educators that help children cope with uncertainty.

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Investing in Transformative Change: Helping States and Communities Align and Deploy Federal Funds

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

This webinar featured Jeffrey Levi of the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Participants learned more about the scale, scope, and distribution of federal COVID funding and explore how health funders are seeking to inform, influence, and facilitate forward-thinking investment decisions.

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Supporting Seriously Ill Elders in the COVID Era

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

This webinar discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic, examples of best and promising practices and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and what funders of all levels of experience serving these populations can do to make a difference.

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Tools that Heal: Core Competencies for Frontline Complex Care Providers

Tuesday, May 11, 2021