All Hands on Mission
Allegany Franciscan Ministries is a mission-driven grantmaker whose staff, board, and community volunteers strive to understand and connect with the realities faced by the marginalized communities served by the organization.
Policy Matters: How the Affordable Care Act Has Changed Our Grantmaking
Health reform is not for the faint of heart. When we began drafting this article, it took shape as a reflective piece on the ways in which the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) had affected our grantmaking.
Building a Field for Health Equity Advocacy: Reflections from a Grantee-Driven Approach
The Colorado Trust believes that all Coloradans should have fair and equal opportunities to lead healthy, productive lives regardless of race, ethnicity, income, or where we live.
Strength in Numbers: Building Coalitions to Advance Policy Change
The 2016 GIH Fall Forum was held on November 15, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
Promoting Health Equity through Paid Leave
Universal paid family and medical leave promotes health equity by improving health and well-being across the life span and reducing socioeconomic disparities.
Policy Engagement by Local Health Funders
Policies made at the local level have a tremendous influence on people’s health. Our new publication explores how health funders inform and influence local policy decisions that play a critical role in shaping community health and well-being.
Measuring the Impact of Policy-Focused Work: Difficult but Necessary
What do we know about what works to improve the complex U.S. health care system? How can we spread what works in one setting to other states, health systems, and provider groups? What can we do to move the policy discussion forward and ensure that they are grounded in evidence?
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children
In this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.
Advocacy and Advancing Access: Health Care for All Children Webinar
On this in-person panel discussion (with a remote webinar option), participants heard from advocacy leaders, funders, and grantees exploring what they have learned through successful California child health care advocacy efforts, how these lessons might help funders reach their goals, tools and resources funders can use, the logistics of how funders make advocacy work, and how funders can talk about it with their boards.