GIH Bulletin: May 2016

This year’s annual conference was the largest one ever—which we are happy about—but it is the story behind the numbers that resonate the most with me. Three of my top takeaways are:

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GIH Bulletin: April 2016

Leila May Polintan, 39, was GIH’s Communications Director from 2007 to 2016. Sadly, we lost her on Saturday, April 2 after a courageous 3½-year battle with breast cancer. Leila had a large footprint at GIH: she designed and managed our electronic communications, oversaw the monthly Bulletin and annual conference materials, and wrote our style guide

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Charting a New Course: Roadblocks, Breakthroughs, and Discoveries

Each year, GIH asks health funders to share their thoughts on our annual conference theme. This year’s authors wrote essays about what it means to chart a new course in health philanthropy.

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GIH Bulletin: March 2016

Health philanthropy has played a critical role in supporting strategies to reduce disparities and tackle the complex factors at the root of unequal health outcomes.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Innovations in Health Equity

As foundations begin to think differently about how to improve the health of all people, many grantmakers are looking outside of health care and collaborating across sectors to address the root causes of persistent health disparities and inequities. Achieving health equity requires innovative solutions that result from the combined forces of philanthropy, policymakers, government, community-based organizations, and other partners.

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GIH Bulletin: February 2016

The Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation’s recent correctional health grantee meeting was an eye-opening lesson for me about the magnitude of health needs for people who are incarcerated, and the limited involvement of health funders.

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Policy Unsweetened: Tackling Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Grantmakers’ interest in supporting healthy eating policies has grown over the past two decades and been rewarded with considerable progress. Nonetheless, the next phase of policy work brings new challenges, opportunities, and questions. To explore these issues, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies, a strategic conversation for funders, practitioners, and experts in Sacramento, California. 

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GIH Bulletin: January 2016

In December, I attended a meeting that demonstrated philanthropy’s ability to convene across sectors to raise awareness and solve problems. The focus was the crisis being experienced by Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic

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Lessons Learned from Advocacy to Expand Children’s Coverage: A Recipe for Success

From 2008 to 2014, the number of uninsured children in the United States fell from 7.3 million to 4.4 million, an astonishing 40 percent drop (Annie E. Casey Foundation 2015). This striking progress toward the goal of universal health insurance coverage of children shows what can be achieved when sufficient resources are marshaled and directed in the right way, at the right time.

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GIH Bulletin: December 2015

Community development organizations and health funders often lack formal ties, even though they may be working in the same communities and with the same populations

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