Correcting Misinformation with Patients: Resources, Guides, and Strategies

George Washington University assembled various resources on correcting misinformation with patients, including videos, podcasts, additional reading, and recommended courses.

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Health Misinformation

The University of Minnesota compiled information and resources about health misinformation. Topics include the historical basis for misinformation, types of health misinformation, psychology of misinformation, common types of misinformation (venues or tactics), how to talk about misinformation, how to critically evaluate information, infographics on fake news/misinformation, videos on mis/disinformation, games for how to spot fake news or misinformation, and toolkits and handbooks.

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Replenishing Trust: Civil Society’s Guide to Reversing the Trust Deficit

This report reviews social science and contains interviews with researchers and organizational leaders to provide readers with promising practices to try to increase trust.

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Featured Public Statements – February 2024

We have compiled a collection of public statements from foundations to provide communications staff with examples of responses to various issues.

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Featured Public Statements – January 2024

We have compiled a collection of public statements from foundations to provide communications staff with examples of responses to various issues.

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Philanthropy’s Impact on Health Care Systems: Supporting the Creation of a Community-Health Worker-Based Chronic Care Management Model in Appalachia

Guided by its mission of “helping people help themselves,” the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation strategically invests in the creative problem-solving activities of local communities and individuals. For the past decade, the Benedum Foundation has accomplished this mission in its support of a particular health care delivery model: efficient chronic disease management through a medical model leveraging the skills of community health workers in Appalachia. This model provides unique patient care, has shown success for improving the health conditions of a target population, and reduced health care costs—accomplishments that align with the Institute of Health Improvement’s Triple Aim framework.

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Engaging Youth to Guide Research on Their Own Well-Being

In 2019, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Equity and Inclusion unit hosted a convening with young people from Black, Latinx, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) cultural affinity groups, along with adults who support the work and leadership of these youth and young adults. The young participants, many of whom were from the Aspen Institute’s Fresh Tracks program, expressed the need for young leaders to be the ones defining youth well-being and finding solutions that help their own communities support the well-being of young people.

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Connecting Mental Health and Wealth in North Carolina

Mental health and wealth are inextricably linked, influencing each other bidirectionally. While many factors contribute to mental health, we know from the social determinants of health that the most foundational are socioeconomic, including income, wealth, and safe neighborhoods. Asset Funders Network defines wealth in an assets-to-debt ratio. 

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Grantmaker Focus by Dan Tuttle

Stupski Foundation

“Our approach to grantmaking in health has been deeply shaped by our choice to spend down, and all for the better. I welcome the chance to connect with others considering how having an end date can transform their work and that of their partners. For us, spending down has liberated us to drastically increase the amount we can spend to advance health equity in Hawai’i and the San Francisco Bay AreaOur approach to grantmaking in health has been deeply shaped by our choice to spend down, and all for the better. I welcome the chance to connect with others considering how having an end date can transform their work and that of their partners. For us, spending down has liberated us to drastically increase the amount we can spend to advance health equity in Hawai’i and the San Francisco Bay Area.”

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A Compass of Indispensable Leadership Attributes to Guide Health Philanthropy

Trends in leadership are changing—just take the Terrance Keenan Institute as an example. When the program started in 2010, it focused on general leadership tactics with topics that ranged from leveraging resources and building partnerships to board dynamics. Since then, the Institute’s curriculum has moved towards a recognition that leaders possess individual strengths that can be embraced to make our organizations and the broader field of health philanthropy more effective.

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