Upcoming Webinars
The Future of Rural Health and Well-Being: Findings from a Landscape Analysis and Listening Sessions
Grantmakers In Health and the National Rural Health Association, with support from the Georgia Health Policy Center, are leading an initiative to reimagine rural health and well-being by aligning systems and resources to achieve optimal health for all individuals living in rural America. As part of this effort, the Georgia Health Policy Center conducted a landscape analysis highlighting a sampling of a cross-section of organizations and leaders in rural health and hosted two national listening sessions of key stakeholders.
Please join us for a discussion of our key findings, the impact of the rapidly changing federal policy landscape, and recommendations for where we go from here in building a shared vision and roadmap for sustainable, community-driven change in rural communities across the country.
Steady Voices in Unsteady Times: Strategies for Communicating in Crisis
Communicating effectively in times of crisis is essential for maintaining public trust and organizational reputation. It can also minimize the spread of false or misleading information. This virtual workshop is designed to support health funders’ efforts to effectively communicate while managing potential risks of ideologically- and politically-driven threats. Beth Tritter and Chrystal Okonta from FGS Global will lead the program. Participants will learn how to prepare for a communications crisis and test drive practical tools for managing and responding. Working in groups, participants will also work to address a plausible and timely challenge using best practices and core principles of effective crisis response.
Behavioral Health in the Balance: Navigating the Impact of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Act
Medicaid is the single largest payer for behavioral health services and is increasingly responsible for substance use disorder reimbursements. In July 2025, H.R.1 was signed into law containing an estimated $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years, resulting in almost 15 million people losing health coverage, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. The pressure on states to cut spending is immense, and behavioral health services will not be immune. Join GIH for a discussion on the behavioral health implications of H.R.1 and opportunities for funders to get involved now. Bill Smith and Angela Kimball from Inseparable will summarize H.R.1 from a behavioral health perspective. Neel Harja and Sarah Wasil from Michigan Health Endowment Fund and Itai Dinour and Hazel Guzman from Carmel Hill Fund will provide examples of how funders are responding to this challenging situation. Funders will leave the webinar with actionable ideas to protect access to behavioral health services in their states.
CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs
It is a difficult time for many, but especially for those who are new to their role. Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in October, to offer foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years the opportunity to discuss the challenges they are facing as new CEOs with one another and seasoned leaders in the field. 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.
Funder Collaborations to Protect Science
Scientific research is the foundation of public health, driving innovation, policy, and life-saving interventions. But deep federal cuts and workforce reductions threaten to unravel decades of progress. In response, funders are organizing and taking action to protect the scientific enterprise. This webinar spotlights two funder collaborations: FACTS—a table for learning and discussion and the Portfolio to Protect Science—a coordinated effort to secure key parts of scientific research. Speakers will share how these collaborations emerged and opportunities for funders to engage.
Speakers include Caroline Montojo, President and CEO, Dana Foundation, Sam Gill, President and CEO, Doris Duke Foundation and Julie Morita, President and CEO, The Joyce Foundation. The conversation will be moderated by Cara James, President and CEO of Grantmakers In Health.
GIH Webinar Recordings and Resources
A Threat to Health and Wellbeing: Public Charge’s Expected Impact and How Philanthropy Can Respond
On this webinar, funders learned about current responses to the new “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” rule —ranging from local-level community education and state-level coordinated campaigns to national litigation efforts—and explored opportunities to support the protection of families and the advancement of belonging in both rapid response and long-term contexts.
Rhetoric to Reality: Meaningful Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation
During this webinar, speakers shared lessons learned from the formal evaluation of the Consumer Voices for Innovation Project and from the grantees themselves.
Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results
The 2010 Census missed over 2 million young children, most of which were left off the form by families who responded. Participants in this webinar learned more about why families have left children in their households off the census in the past and how to develop persuasive messages to ensure young children are not missed in 2020.
Promoting Equity Through Workforce Innovations: Impact of Dental Therapy in Tribal and Indigenous Communities
This webinar discussed the historical and social contexts of oral health disparities experienced by tribal communities around the world and the evolution of dental therapy as a successful care model which supports locally representative, community-oriented, and culturally appropriate care for these populations.
Applying Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic to the Opioid Crisis
This webinar covered how issues of access, equity, funding, policy, and stigma have impacted governmental and philanthropic responses to public health epidemics. The speakers provided an update on the current data related to the opioid and HIV syndemics.
Census Funder Debrief: Supreme Court Citizenship Question Decision
This webinar was held in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the 2020 Census citizenship question.
Care Partners: Bridging Families, Clinics, and Communities to Advance Late-Life Depression Care
An important conversation discussed the successes and challenges in implementing collaborative care interventions and next steps to build on these models to improve late-life depression care.
2020 Census Funder Learning Series: Effective Strategies for Business Engagement
On this webinar, participants discussed strategies to engage and build partnerships with the business sector in support of the 2020 census. Presenters shared resources, approaches to census engagement, and insights into how to mitigate potential barriers, with a focus on Get Out the Count.