Upcoming Webinars
CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in March for foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years. This will be an opportunity to discuss the challenges faced as new CEOs, with one another and sometimes with 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. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.
SNAP Funder Working Group: Food Security Data Collection
Our upcoming Working Group Call will focus on data collection opportunities following USDA’s decision to terminate the Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Household Food Security Survey. For more than 30 years, this survey provided the nation’s most consistent measure of food security, shaping our collective understanding of the drivers of food insecurity and informing key food and nutrition policy decisions. No existing data source offers the same level of insight, and its loss will make it harder to assess the impacts of H.R. 1’s SNAP cuts. Experts from the Capital Area Food Bank, Healthy Eating Research, and the Urban Institute will discuss why continued data collection—using consistent methods and metrics—matters and how funders can support this work.
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? 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.
GIH Webinar Recordings and Resources
Improving Health Outcomes by Connecting to the EITC: A Conversation for Funders
On this webinbar, funders learned about the importance of EITC in improving health, explored examples of how philanthropy is engaging in this work, and increased cross-sectoral connections between health and economic security funders.
The Critical Role of Medicaid for People with Disabilities
On this webinar, funders heard an overview of Medicaid’s role for this critical population; understood the potential impact that new policies—such as basing Medicaid eligibility on employment—may have on people with disabilities; and discussed recent delivery system changes, such as the movement to commercial managed care.
Invitation to Innovation Funder Call Series – July
As part of our collaborative Invitation to Innovation initiative, Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health cosponsored a monthly series of funders-only discussions focused on the challenges of and opportunities for improving care for people with complex health and social needs.
Philanthropy’s Response to the Addition of a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
During this webinar, funders learned about: where the proposed citizenship question stands now and how key national stakeholder organizations are organizing to respond to it, how funders and Philanthropy Serving Organizations can sign-on to letters regarding the citizenship question and submit their own comments, and
how funders can help inform their grantees about sign-on comment letters and other organizing opportunities for stakeholder groups.
Funding for Cultural Change: Creating and Meeting the Moment
This discussion explored how grassroots leaders have leveraged or helped create big cultural moments to build long-term power in their communities and considered how funders have been supporting this work thus far.
Complex Care: Funding Big Problems on a Small Budget
This webinar taught strategies for funding improvement and innovation in complex care on a smaller budget. The discussion included an overview of The Blueprint for Complex Care (a joint project of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, the Center for Health Care Strategies, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement); case studies on how and why to support patient advocacy, data analytics, clinical models of care, cross-sector communication, unconventional partnerships, and workforce development; examples of evidence-based programs that are ready for replication and scaling; and advice on designing sustainable business models and implementation plans.
What Funders Need to Know About Census 2020 Operations
During this webinar, funders learned about 2020 Census operational timeline, including changes to census methods and field infrastructure; procedures for counting vulnerable individuals who are homeless, transitory, or living in group facilities and rural and tribal communities; and how funders can engage with and support local and state government Complete Count Committees.
Invitation to Innovation Funder Call Series – May
Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health cosponsored a monthly series of funders-only discussions focused on the challenges of and opportunities for improving care for people with complex health and social needs.