Building on Achievements in Extending Children’s Health Coverage

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly known as the ACA, included a range of measures to improve the health of children and secure children’s access to needed health services. This publication takes stock of progress in implementing those measures and considers what will be needed to keep the momentum going and address outstanding challenges.

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Healthy Eating and Active Living: Checking in on Philanthropy’s Investments

The Surgeon General’s Call to Action in 2001 sparked widespread public concern about the rising prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States. Since then, many health funders have supported obesity prevention, healthy eating/active living, and healthy living.

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GIH Bulletin: November 2015

Some of GIH’s staff members have previously worked at foundations, but many have not. However, it is important for all of us to understand the challenges funders face in their work.

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Exiting Thoughtfully

Foundations that have adopted a limited-life approach have employed a number of principles to guide them in wrapping up their work. Several of these guidelines offer best practices for funders who are exiting from a field or retiring from grantmaking altogether. These lessons may in some cases also be relevant for foundations transitioning from an ongoing support model to a model of one-time/high-impact grants.

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Supportive Housing: Strengthening Communities, Improving Health

Supportive housing has emerged as an innovative and comprehensive intervention that addresses the health inequities associated with housing instability, affordability, and homelessness. In this model, housing is combined with wraparound services such as primary and behavioral health care, case management, financial assistance, and legal counseling.

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GIH Bulletin: October 2015

Funders, there is still time to register for this year’s Fall Forum! We are holding it November 19 and 20 at the Westin Georgetown in Washington, DC. The Fall Forum is the national meeting that we design especially for health funders with an interest in policy.

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GIH Bulletin: September 2015

The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was a painful reminder of the multiple ways in which that storm—the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States—exposed how race and income determine environmental risk.

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Project ECHO

Project ECHO is an innovative model for expanding access to specialty and high-quality primary care in rural areas using telehealth-enabled networked learning. Read how the Project ECHO model is dramatically expanding capacity to provide treatment and improve patient outcomes.

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Behavioral Health Survey Results

To better track how philanthropy is investing in behavioral health, Grantmakers In Health surveyed our Funding Partners in the spring of 2015 about their behavioral health focus areas, strategies, and target populations. The survey results have been compiled into summary charts and a funder directory to help grantmakers with a focus on behavioral health learn from and connect with each other.

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GIH Bulletin: August 2015

Health funders pride themselves on being champions of innovation. They strive to discover new and creative models of care that promise to advance the triple aim of improved outcomes, better patient experiences, and reduced costs.

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