Upcoming Webinars

Urban Wildfires in Los Angeles – Health and Environmental Impacts and Community-Led Solutions

Wildfires are not only environmental disasters, they are health, housing, and economic crises that magnify systemic inequities in frontline communities and expose deep gaps in public response, infrastructure, and policy. The people most vulnerable to displacement, pollution, and climate impacts are also those leading the charge toward just, restorative solutions. From neighborhoods downwind of wildfire burn zones, to frontline communities burdened by cumulative pollution and climate risks, Los Angeles residents are facing overlapping environmental and public health threats. Yet, they are organizing for transformation: land stewardship, public health protections, clean-up and remediation strategies, and job pathways rooted in care, not extraction.

This webinar will ground the issue of urban wildfires in LA within the broader fight for environmental justice, public health, and climate resilience. It will also illustrate the urgency and opportunity for funders to invest in intersectional, community-based strategies that address the root causes and aftermath of climate disasters—strategies that build long-term capacity, advance a restorative economy, and ensure the most impacted communities shape the future of resilience. 

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ 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? Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the director of State Health Policy and Data at KFF, will join the call to speak about how the provisions in the 2025 budget reconciliation law will likely affect states and other policy trends related to Medicaid and state budgets.

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Developing a Funding Strategy In Response to SNAP Cuts

The scale and scope of the $186 billion in SNAP cuts included in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) are staggering and could force millions to lose their benefits. There is a need to identify clear national, state, and local strategies for diverse capital partners to address the structural harm to SNAP and widespread negative impacts on hunger, health, nutrition and economic security posed by this legislation. 

For the first 45 minutes of this call, speakers will share insights into emerging needs for advocacy, technical assistance, strategic communications, and other areas, in both the short and long term. Following Q&A with our panel, there will be a funder-only conversation to reflect on how organizations are responding, what is being funded, and how we could collaborate. 

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CEO Working Group Webinar: December Convening

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. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations.

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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.

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Dollar Stores’ Growing Impact on Local Food Environments

This webinar discussed the expansion of dollar stores and how funders might start to address the challenges that they present.

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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.

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CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage

This CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage webinar was a timely, two-part discussion on Affordable Care Act litigation and Medicaid expansion.

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Moving Hospitals and Health Systems Upstream

This webinar shared how foundations are supporting initiatives that bridge the clinical and nonclinical; integrate social needs into medical treatment; and foster collaboration between health care institutions, communities, and cross-sector partners.

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Activity on Tap: Looking Across the Drinking Water Landscape

In this webinar, participants learned about a new funder guide on drinking water and discussed highlights from three hubs of activity tackling drinking water challenges.

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Blueprint for Complex Care: Opportunities for Philanthropy in Healthcare and Social Services

This webinar shared the Blueprint for Complex Care’s recommendations for strengthening the field, how foundations are using the blueprint in their current and future grantmaking, and how funders can collaborate to improve the lives of those with the most complex needs.

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Building Evidence with a Health Equity Lens

This webinar shared promising practices for using data to inform health equity strategies, meaningfully engaging communities in evaluation and research, and designing metrics to assess progress toward health equity.

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