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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.