Upcoming Webinars
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.
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
Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community December
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health is convened a learning community for funders supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.
Improving Mental Health Conditions Worldwide
This webinar discussed the WHO Quality Rights Project and offered participants the opportunity to view a live demonstration of the recently launched MiNDbank database, a new online platform for the sharing of resources in mental health, human rights, disability, and development.
Wellness in the Health Care Workforce
On this webinar, participants learned about innovative approaches to support wellness in the health profession including The Healer’s Art, a course which explores topics such as mindfulness, deep listening, grief, healing, and self-care and is now taught in half the nation’s medical schools as well as several countries abroad.
Investing in Early Childhood
On this webinar, funders learned about a new Child Trends report’s key findings, the McCormick Foundation’s challenge, how one funder has joined this challenge, and how other funders can get involved.
Scaling-Up: Connecting Effective Nonprofits to Capital: Part Two
Part 2 of this series focused on the Social Impact Exchange and its work to scale proven solutions to critical social problems.
Outreach and Enrollment Learning Community – November
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GIH convened a learning community for funders who are currently supporting ACA outreach and enrollment efforts.
Scaling-Up: Connecting Effective Nonprofits to Capital: Part One
On this first webinar, grantmakers were introduced to the Social Impact Exchange and learned how to get involved in the innovative marketplace it has created for local, regional and national funders who want to work and learn with others to achieve larger impact in their priority areas.