Philanthropy and Community Development: Partners In Health

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are funding projects across the nation to support health care centers and clinics, grocery stores with healthy food options, and healthy housing. Read this Issue Focus on how CDFIs are a valuable potential partner for health philanthropy.

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GIH Bulletin: July 2015

Each June, GIH holds a board retreat that takes an in-depth look at timely issues. This year, the retreat featured board-led discussions of new directions and new thinking in health philanthropy, specifically: 1) moving the discussion of health beyond the health sector, and 2) funders as strategic change agents.

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Annual Report 2014 (Financial Statements)

The goal of Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is to help grantmakers improve the health of all people. We are committed to this task through an array of programming and invite you to read the 2014 Annual Report, which provides an overview of GIH activities last year. Read further for a summary of GIH’s financial audit.

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Annual Report 2014

GIH’s 2014 Annual Report document’s the organization’s programmatic and financial activities.

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GIH Bulletin: June 2015

Long-term poverty is the norm in many rural areas of the United States. Coupled with slow (or nonexistent) job growth, limited numbers of health care providers, and other access issues, the result is significant physical, oral, and behavioral health problems.

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Health Reform Five Years Later: Philanthropy Steps Up to the Challenge

In this report, GIH describes the full spectrum of ways in which foundations have engaged in health reform-related efforts—both coverage expansion and health system transformation—since passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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GIH Bulletin: May 2015

GIH has many conversations with health foundations and corporate giving programs across the country, helping us gauge the areas in which grantmakers are active. We have identified eight priorities, illustrating the breadth of funder interests.

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¡Que Viva! Latinos and Health Care in the South

The Latino population in the southern United States is flourishing, which offers the region an opportunity to enrich the fabric of their communities with dynamic and vital young families who are eager to thrive. This demographic shift has sparked strategic conversations within health philanthropy about how best to ensure that Latino communities in the southern states have access to quality, affordable health care.

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The Cuban Prescription: Human-Centered Care

Earlier this year, members of Grantmakers In Health’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S.Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba. The primary objectives of the trip were to see the Cuban approach to health in action, and to consider whether there were takeaway lessons for the U.S. health system.

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GIH Bulletin: April 2015

This year marks the 100th anniversary of National Negro Health Week and the 30th anniversary of the Heckler Report. Both were milestones in the quest for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.

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