Climate Change, Health, and Equity Survey Findings: Gaps, Needs, and Opportunities

Climate Change, Health, and Equity Survey Findings: Gaps, Needs, and Opportunities

This report summarizes the findings of a fall 2019 survey on the landscape of climate change, health, and equity funding and organizational work. The survey’s purpose is to add to the understanding of the resource gaps, needs, and opportunities in this critical and expanding field.

Read More →

The Climate, Health, and Equity Funding Landscape

This webinar detailed the results of a national survey of foundations and nonprofits working on climate, health, and equity.

Read More →

Productive Partnerships

Twenty years ago, a small group of grantmakers launched a Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), seeking to bridge health and environmental philanthropy and to focus more attention on links between human, wildlife, and ecosystem health. One of my first tasks as HEFN’s first staffer was to try to engage health funders in this enterprise.

Read More →
Philanthropy’s Role in Addressing Neighborhood Conditions That Shape Health

Philanthropy’s Role in Addressing Neighborhood Conditions That Shape Health

From sidewalks to toxic stress, evidence shows where people live has a greater impact on health than medical care, behavior, or genetics. As funders move upstream, there is increased interest in supporting efforts to build healthy places. This scan of the field explores how grantmakers are addressing neighborhood factors that shape health such as housing, community development, the built environment, and transportation.

Read More →

Clean and Safe Drinking Water: A Cornerstone of Healthy Lives

In California, where our foundation is based, upwards of 1 million residents lack access to clean and safe drinking water in their homes. Their drinking water is contaminated by nitrates from fertilizer, industrial solvents, naturally-occurring arsenic, and other harmful elements.

Read More →

Charting a Climate, Health, and Equity Agenda

Charting a Climate, Health, and Equity Agenda was held on November 14, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan.

Read More →

Community Water Fluoridation: Lessons for Improving Philanthropic Policy Advocacy

This webinar discussed where community water fluoridation stands today, the lessons learned for philanthropy, how policy campaigns can successfully engage on public health issues in a bipartisan manner, and recommendations for next steps to continue moving community water fluoridation efforts forward.

Read More →

Healthy Water, Healthy People

When it comes to our health, we tend to take water for granted. But as we have been reminded recently, failures within our fragile water systems can quickly become public health disasters. What is worse is that the people who are hit hardest typically live in our most vulnerable communities.

Read More →

Healthy Food, Healthy People: The Relationship Between Food and Real Estate

This webinar was an engaging discussion of how cross-sectoral partnerships among real estate developers, public sector institutions, universities, restauranteurs, chefs, farmers, and food retailers can support the health of people and the planet.

Read More →