Upcoming Webinars
Health Policy in 2026: What Comes Next?
Following a tumultuous year in health policy, GIH will continue to keep funders up to speed on legislative and administrative changes that will affect health access and impact health disparities. In this timely webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners will provide an overview of what to expect from Congress and the administration in 2026 leading up to the midterm elections, focusing on key legislative priorities and executive actions to help funders navigate and engage on these changes. Speakers include Laura Pence and Sara Singleton from Leavitt Partners.
In 2025, Grantmakers In Health launched a new collaboration with Leavitt Partners for health policy monitoring services related to GIH strategic priorities, which includes regular webinars on timely policy topics.
Responding to H.R. 1: Funder Opportunity to Help States Mitigate SNAP Coverage Losses
H.R. 1’s unprecedented requirement that states pay for a share of SNAP benefits based on their payment error rates will impose a massive financial burden on state budgets, forcing them to choose between cutting other programs and services, reducing SNAP eligibility, or even stopping participation in SNAP entirely.
To mitigate this threat, the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program and Social Finance have partnered to develop a proposal to help states effectively implement H.R. 1 and reduce some of the coverage losses and fiscal impacts. The concept, based on a successful model that supported states during Medicaid Unwinding, is to deploy small teams of digital services and process design experts directly to states or counties (depending on the type of SNAP administration).
SNAP Strategy Funder Working Group: Strategic Communications Operations
Our upcoming Working Group Call will focus on strategic communications opportunities. Elizabeth Wenk, Principal and Managing Director, and Nick Seaver, Senior Vice President and Co-Director of Training Programs at Burness, will share new insights from message testing about SNAP that highlights messaging that moves audiences, insights on which arguments resonate and counter opponents, and how different groups respond to these messages. The State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Food, Agriculture, and Rural Economies team will also share what they are hearing from state legislators advocating for SNAP, and how funders can support state policymakers’ efforts to protect the program.
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.
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.
GIH Webinar Recordings and Resources
Accountable Health Communities
This webinar discussed the “accountable communities of health” model, examples of projects that embrace it, and how its development and implementation is being supported by both public and private funding.
Improving Health Outcomes for Seniors in Rural Communities
In this webinar, participants learned about an innovative telemedicine program supporting optimal healing and wellness for older adults in seven states that focuses on providing proactive medical care to avoid unnecessary transfers, hospitalizations, and read missions.
Meeting Substance Use Needs with Medicaid Expansion
Thirty-one states have expanded Medicaid eligibility as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. This second strategic conversation in a series discussed progress in the 19 remaining states.
Building Healthy Communities: Reducing Children’s Exposure to Environmental Toxins
This webinar discussed how exposure to environmental toxins effects the health of all children, why they are often an unseen barrier to the work of health funders, and how grantmakers can incorporate an environmental health lens into their efforts to build healthier communities.
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…
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.
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.
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.