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Civic Engagement

Issue Focus by Colin Pekruhn Sep 2019

Policies for Those Who Care: Investing in Systems That Support Family Caregivers

September 17, 2019
May 22, 2025
Population Health
Issue Focus

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.

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Catalyzing Anchor Institutions to Invest in Healthy Local Economies

Catalyzing Anchor Institutions to Invest in Healthy Local Economies

August 5, 2019
May 22, 2025
Population Health
Views from the Field

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.

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Census 2020 Philanthropic Investments are Innovation in Action

July 8, 2019
May 22, 2025
Community Engagement and Empowerment, Philanthropic Growth and Impact
Views from the Field

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.

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Webinars

Census Funder Debrief: Supreme Court Citizenship Question Decision

July 4, 2019
July 1, 2019
Community Engagement and Empowerment
Webinars

This webinar was held in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the 2020 Census citizenship question.

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2020 Census Funder Learning Series: Effective Strategies for Business Engagement

May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019
Community Engagement and Empowerment
Webinars

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.

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Benet Magnuson to Be Honored with Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy

May 10, 2019
May 22, 2025
GIH News

Benet Magnuson, Executive Director of Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2019 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.

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Kentucky Voices for Health: April 2019

April 11, 2019
May 22, 2025
Philanthropy @ Work - Reports

As Kentucky weathers numerous threats to its health care safety net, this report offers a new baseline to measure changes in insurance coverage, access to care, health outcomes, and economic impact.

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Trends in Health Philanthropy: Leveraging Policy Change

March 15, 2019
May 22, 2025
Philanthropic Growth and Impact
From the President

Over the years, GIH has developed considerable programming to help funders learn from one another about effective policy change strategies, to increase awareness of what is legally possible, and to decrease anxiety about emerging strategies.

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Webinars

Funders Census Initiative Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – Part 5

February 4, 2019
January 16, 2019
Community Engagement and Empowerment
Webinars

This webinar featured results of messaging research conducted by the National Congress of American Indians. During this webinar, attendees learned about:
the methodology used by the National Congress of American Indians, the findings of their message testing, and recommended messengers and messages.

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Webinars

Funders Census Initiative Briefing Series: Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – Part 6

February 4, 2019
January 23, 2019
Community Engagement and Empowerment
Webinars

This webinar featured results of messaging research conducted by the Arab American Institute. During this webinar, attendees learned about: the methodology used by the Arab American Institute, the findings of their message testing, and recommended messengers and messages.

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