Upcoming Webinars

Strengthening Maternal Mental Health in Rural Communities

Join us on March 6th, from 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET/ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm PT to explore how maternal mental health is showing up across rural communities, how states are engaging in this new initiative, and where philanthropic strategies can play a meaningful role to advance maternal mental health in rural communities.

The conversation will draw on perspectives from national rural health infrastructure, community-based organizations, and physician-led public health work across rural regions of the country. Speakers will reflect on persistent gaps and promising approaches, and highlight strategies funders can support to strengthen rural delivery systems and promote more accessible, culturally responsive care for mothers and families. The session will conclude with time for funder discussion and questions.

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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.

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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? 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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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.

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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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Age-Friendly Communities and Rural America: The Transportation Challenge

This webinar taught us from two foundations and a local Association of Governments that have embraced the fundamental issue of rural aging transportation, how they have begun to build and fund programs, and discussed the importance of partnerships in rural America.

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Reflections on the Health Care System

On this webinar, Dr. Berwick shared his latest reflections on the future of quality improvement, including what’s at stake, possible directions forward, opportunities for leadership, and the importance of keeping sight of the long-term vision of optimizing health care system performance.

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Better Care for Complex Needs: Priorities for the Field

This webinar taught us more about the development and evolution of The Playbook along with five priorities that funders may consider as they explore opportunities to improve care for people with complex health and social needs.

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Policy Strategies to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

This webinar covered the current state of sugar-sweetened tax campaigns and tax policy implementation, the returns on investment sugar-sweetened beverage policy efforts have for foundations and their communities, and how grantmakers of all sizes and levels of policy experience can become involved in efforts to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.

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Incorporating Harm Reduction Strategies in Behavioral Health Grantmaking

Funders on this webinar discussed best practices, gaps, and emerging issues in applying harm reduction policies to substance use grantmaking.

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CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage October Call

On this CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage call,  Lori Lodes of Get America Covered and Sue Sherry of Community Catalyst discussed the upcoming open enrollment period, outreach efforts, and available resources.

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Food Is Medicine: Research, Policy, & State of the Field

On this webinar, participants learned about the “food is medicine” approach and its historical roots, the state of the science, details of a new three-year study funded by California’s legislature, and how “food is medicine” has evolved into a national effort to make medically-tailored meals an essential health benefit.

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Measure Something: Evaluation for Everybody

This presentation takes as its starting point Dr. Atul Gawande’s charge: “If you count something you find interesting, you will learn something interesting.”

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Implementing Patient and Family Engagement

On this webinar, funders learned about the core principles and key elements of patient and family engagement, as well as new strategies for driving action towards effective implementation of this critical concept.

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