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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Maternal Mental Health and Immigrant and Refugee Women, Parents and Communities

Pregnant and parenting immigrant, migrant, and refugee women are navigating a landscape marked by uncertainty, fear, and systemic exclusion—conditions that profoundly affect their physical and mental health during the perinatal and postpartum periods and throughout their lifespan. Amid increasingly punitive immigration policies, including family separation, detention, and deportation without due process, these women and their families face extraordinary challenges that endanger their mental health and wellbeing and that of their children. Compounding these harms are policy barriers such as the public charge rule, attacks on birthright citizenship, and exclusion from health coverage and other vital services. These stressors contribute to a growing but under-recognized crisis in maternal mental health, with long-term consequences for families and communities.

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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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The Future of Rural Health and Well-Being: Findings from a Landscape Analysis and Listening Sessions

Grantmakers In Health and the National Rural Health Association, with support from the Georgia Health Policy Center, are leading an initiative to reimagine rural health and well-being by aligning systems and resources to achieve optimal health for all individuals living in rural America. As part of this effort, the Georgia Health Policy Center conducted a landscape analysis highlighting a sampling of a cross-section of organizations and leaders in rural health and hosted two national listening sessions of key stakeholders.

Please join us for a discussion of our key findings, the impact of the rapidly changing federal policy landscape, and recommendations for where we go from here in building a shared vision and roadmap for sustainable, community-driven change in rural communities across the country.

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Supporting Local Food Policy to Create Sustainable Access to Healthy Food

This webinar offered funders new to and experienced in investing in local food policy a chance to explore opportunities and challenges and learn how funders might begin working in this area.

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Optimal Healing Environments: Creating a Culture of Wellness

This webinar featured organizations that have adopted a holistic healing framework and discussed ways philanthropy can help optimize wellness and prevention.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – June

This month’s call was an exchange of ideas on grantmaker roles in outreach and enrollment going forward.

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Integrated Care: Building a Skilled Workforce

This webinar discussed the latest research on workforce competencies and shared examples of successful integrated care practices.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – May

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened this learning community for funders who have been supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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The Affordable Care Act and Pregnant Women

This webinar explored current eligibility levels and benefits that can help improve women’s health, potential coverage gaps for women who may become pregnant or who are pregnant, and potential roles funders can play.

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Update on the National Dialogue on Mental Health

In June 2013, GIH hosted a webinar on the first stages of the National Dialogue on Mental Health. This follow-up webinar provided an update on the initiative’s activities to date as well as next steps.

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Monitoring the Impact of the ACA

This call examined the convergence of statewide and national research on tracking the impact of the ACA, and explored possibilities to share information and coordinate efforts.

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Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – April

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened a learning community for funders who are supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.

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Hospital Community Benefits and Community Health Improvement

This audioconference clarified the ACA’s hospital community benefit provisions, including requirements for hospital-sponsored Community Health Needs Assessments, and examined the promise (and potential pitfalls) of leveraging these rules to promote investments in community health.

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