Principles for Engaging Youth as Partners to Build Healthier Communities
One way to tackle today’s upstream health challenges and create tomorrow’s civically-engaged residents is to make youth part of the solution.
Rethink Outside: Telling a New Story about Healthier Communities
As a philanthropy-serving organization that focuses on expanding investments to advance environmental literacy and connect people to nature, Blue Sky Funders Forum seeks to bridge silos and unite funders who share the belief that the benefits of meaningful time spent outdoors lead to stronger and healthier people, communities, and ecosystems.
Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results
The 2010 Census missed over 2 million young children, most of which were left off the form by families who responded. Participants in this webinar learned more about why families have left children in their households off the census in the past and how to develop persuasive messages to ensure young children are not missed in 2020.
Policies for Those Who Care: Investing in Systems That Support Family Caregivers
Across the country, more than 45 million family members are providing care for older adults with chronic, disabling health conditions. There are a multitude of reasons why health grantmakers should be concerned about this, ranging from caregivers’ critical role in managing the needs of complex care patient populations to the manifold short- and long-term impacts caregiving has on the health and wellness of caregivers themselves.
Catalyzing Anchor Institutions to Invest in Healthy Local Economies
Health care is uniquely positioned to serve as an anchor sector because of its evolving mission toward more holistically addressing community and well-being, its stable role as one of the largest, community-rooted employers, and its mostly nonprofit and public status.
Census 2020 Philanthropic Investments are Innovation in Action
The United States census, taken every 10 years, is vital to the philanthropic and business sectors, government, and communities across our country. The federal government allocates over $800 billion each year to states using formulas that rely on census data like population size and other demographic indicators.
Census Funder Debrief: Supreme Court Citizenship Question Decision
This webinar was held in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the 2020 Census citizenship question.
2020 Census Funder Learning Series: Effective Strategies for Business Engagement
On this webinar, participants discussed strategies to engage and build partnerships with the business sector in support of the 2020 census. Presenters shared resources, approaches to census engagement, and insights into how to mitigate potential barriers, with a focus on Get Out the Count.
Benet Magnuson to Be Honored with Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy
Benet Magnuson, Executive Director of Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2019 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.