Grantmakers In Health: COVID-19 Coronavirus: How Philanthropy Can Respond.

COVID-19: How Philanthropy Can Stand Up for Vulnerable Populations

This webinar addressed the limitations of governmental responses to the pandemic and how philanthropists can act directly, and act as advocates, for better protections for at-risk populations, including approaches for developing a public policy agenda for philanthropy, based in equity.

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COVID-19: Place-based Grantmakers and Investing in Local Communities

This webinar explored place-based grantmaking and the importance of strengthening local communities and organizations to create a new philanthropic and nonprofit landscape, focused on recovery, that prioritizes equity, partnership, and collaboration.

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COVID-19: Managing Multiple Disasters Amid the Pandemic

This webinar will explore what effective disaster philanthropy looks like during a pandemic and how funders can respond to other disasters this year while still supporting needs related to COVID-19.

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COVID-19: Making Effective Rapid Response Grants

This webinar explored how funders can respond to community needs by getting money out the door quickly, while maintaining accuracy and accountability.

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COVID-19: Implications for Healthy Food Access and Security

On this webinar , participants learned more about the critical challenges the food system is facing; how the food safety net is responding; and how grantmakers can help with immediate needs, the eventual recovery, and beyond.

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Issue Focus by Eileen Salinsky & Kate Treanor

No Time for ‘Business As Usual’: Health Philanthropy Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the novel coronavirus races across the globe, health funders are urgently preparing for and responding to COVID-19 in the communities they serve. While past public health crises inform COVID-19 response, there is no proven playbook for how health philanthropy should respond to this rapidly evolving threat.

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The Network for Public Health Law: COVID-19: State and Local Government Actions to Address Housing Insecurity

This webinar hosted by the Network for Public Health Law reviewed actions taken by the federal government to prevent foreclosure and by state and local governments to prevent evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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An Update from GIH on Our Annual Conference

Due to recent COVID-19 developments, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) has made the difficult decision to cancel our 2020 Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy, scheduled for June 17-19 in Minneapolis.

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Use the GIH Health Philanthropy Search Tool to Find Out How Peer Funders are Addressing COVID-19

Did you know you can search all of the websites of GIH Funding Partners and Philanthropy Support Partners by using GIH’s Health Philanthropy Search tool? Try searching “COVID-19” to learn more about how your peer funders are responding to the crisis.

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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: New Models Estimating Predicted Health Service Utilization and Deaths for COVID-19

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent population health research center at the University of Washington, has developed models forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days, and deaths by U.S. state in the next four months.

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