Upcoming Webinars

Communities Fighting Back to Prevent Firearm Violence

Can communities sustain the fight against firearm violence amid shrinking federal support? In Newark, New Jersey, local funders and advocates are showing what’s possible.

This panel brings together public health leaders, funders, and community advocates for a conversation on how democratizing access to data can empower community organizations as collaborators for public safety, and how funders can invest in, scale, and sustain these efforts. Although this discussion is rooted in Newark’s urban setting, the approaches highlighted offer valuable lessons for all funders interested in community safety.

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Beyond H.R. 1: Protecting and Rebuilding Our Care Infrastructure

In July 2025, H.R. 1 – also known as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ (OBBB)- was signed into law. The law’s tax cuts for wealthy individuals and corporations were financed by unprecedented cuts to programs that provide life-saving care and support to millions of Americans. Many of the law’s most harmful provisions will take effect in January 2026 and beyond. Cuts to federal programs such as SNAP, Medicaid and Medicare , and added administrative expenses, will put huge pressure on state budgets. In the coming months, state policymakers will be making crucial decisions about raising revenue or making significant cuts to programs across the board providing critical supports for women, children, immigrants, older adults, and people with disabilities.

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Roundtable Discussion: Health Funders Communication and Policy Staff

A growing number of health funders employ staff whose responsibilities focus exclusively or predominantly on public policy engagement. Do you lead your organization’s policy or government affairs work? During our roundtable discussion we connected with peers, explored pressing issues, and shared experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Between calls, members interact with one another in GIH’s online learning community for policy staff.

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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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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. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.

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Health Equity: A Candid Conversation with Your Peers

This call was for staff responsible for equity work to connect with peers, identify common challenges, exchange potential solutions, and build collective knowledge.

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Turning the Tide on Critical Coverage Losses

This webinar provided a briefing on recent record-setting health insurance coverage losses, with a special focus on how people of color and other historically disadvantaged and marginalized communities are affected.

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Virtual Coffee Hour: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Serious-Illness Care

Kimberly Johnson, Director of the Duke Center for REACH Equity and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and Cara James, President and CEO of Grantmakers In Health, discussed the critical challenges communities of color face in accessing serious-illness and palliative care.

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Dental Therapy Authorization Landscape and Advocacy Opportunities

This on-demand webinar highlights advocacy efforts to authorize dental therapy training, licensure, certification and ensure standardized metrics at both the state and national levels

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Overview of Oral Health in America: Removing the Stain of Disparity

This on-demand webinar features a discussion of the book details the landscape of oral health disparities and highly vulnerable populations.

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CEO Working Group Quarterly Call

Leonardo Cuello, Director of Health Policy for the National Health Law Program, gave a snapshot of the latest administrative and legislative activities related to health care access and coverage that funders need to be aware of as we head into the election season.

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Leadership Discussion on Health Equity

On this call, philanthropic leaders discussed how institutions are broadening, deepening, or recasting efforts to achieve health equity to meet this moment; identified opportunities to align resources and coordinate planning within philanthropy and with allied sectors; and fostered connections between funders engaged in health equity and social justice work to help increase learning and collaboration, and to achieve the greatest impact.

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COVID-19: How Funders Can Support Bereavement and Grief

This webinar raised awareness of the intersection of mental health and COVID-19.

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State Budgets Post-Crisis & Medicaid: What Families Can Expect

As Medicaid is a large portion of state budgets, it is one area likely to be affected, but how? What will state budget cuts mean for children and families? On this webinar, participants discussed these topics and learned more about what funders can do.

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Gamechanger? Medicaid Advocacy in a Time of COVID

On this webinar, participants learned from experts and advocates in the field about the evolving landscape, including how Medicaid expansion is playing out and how the block grant and work requirement conversation has shifted.

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