Upcoming Events

CEO Working Group Webinar: August 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. Experts will provide an overview of recent legislation, the impact on health and health care, and what foundation leaders can do to support communities and nonprofits in the next six months. Speakers include Joan Alker of Georgetown Children and Families and Sara Singleton of Leavitt Partners.

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Medicaid’s Role in Preventing & Ending Homelessness

While it was never the pathway to ensuring health care as a human right unto itself, Medicaid inarguably saves lives. Millions would be homeless if not for the services Medicaid supports, and those who experience homelessness rely on it to survive. But the federal government has drastically threatened Medicaid’s power. Join this webinar for a timely discussion on how Medicaid prevents and helps to end homelessness, the status of federal funding for Medicaid, state-level opportunities for organizing, and what philanthropy can do to mitigate the harms of defunding this crucial component of the social safety net. Speakers include Michelle Schneidermann of the California Health Care Foundation and Bobby Watts of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

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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? Participants joined this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Agenda forthcoming.

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2025 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting

Grantmakers In Health (GIH), the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Rural Health will co-host the 2025 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting, Enhancing Rural Health Across Lifespan through Collaboration and Partnership, welcoming foundations, federal entities, and other partners to discuss…

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2016 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture shows how they empower youth to be a part of the conversation about Type 2 Diabetes and have reshaped that conversation in compelling and creative ways. Hodari Davis of Youth Speaks and Dean Schillinger of the University of California, San Francisco discuss The Bigger Picture – a unique collaboration between their two…

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Mental Health and Addiction Policy Briefing

This webinar updated participants on the latest mental health and addiction policy issues, including efforts to address the opioid epidemic, parity law implementation, youth prevention, and public education initiatives such as Mental Health First Aid.

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Moving the Needle on Medicaid Expansion

Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Your grantmaking colleagues held a strategic conversation about making progress in the 19 remaining states.

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Strategic Learning: Pacesetting Practices

This webinar discussed key findings from interviews that Episcopal Health Foundation staff conducted with leading peer funders who have navigated this shift. We also learned about the Colorado Health Foundation’s experience of developing a learning practice, including lessons learned and suggestions for others who want to get started.

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Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders

This webinar reviewed the latest research and policy issues, explored key findings from a recent report, Lifting the Burden of Addiction: Philanthropic Opportunities to Address Substance Use Disorders in the United States, and discussed ways funders can help improve substance use prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery supports.

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Food Marketing to Children

This webinar explored the latest national trends and the state of the field, promising approaches to public policy and working with industry to reform practices, and potential strategies for foundations of any size to make a difference.

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Can Mobile Applications Improve Health Outcomes?

This webinar discussed the potential of mobile health apps, how vulnerable populations tend to apply this technology, and one approach that is working to improve health outcomes.

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How States Strengthen Local Food Systems

This webinar discussed a recent report, Harvesting Healthier Options: State Legislative Trends in Local Foods 2012-2014, which examines state legislation enacted between 2012 and 2014 in all 50 states that aimed to strengthen various components of local food systems.

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Using Housing as a Platform to Improve Health

This webinar discussed how foundations are collaborating across sectors to address housing barriers, and supporting innovative approaches such as permanent supportive housing.

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