Grantmaker Focus-Allegany Franciscan Ministries-Nov 2019

Allegany Franciscan Ministries

“In our community-based work, we find ourselves having moved into a position of power that we did not intend, and now have to be more deliberate about transitioning it back to the community it belongs to.”

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Philadelphia Health Partnership

We know that health and well-being are influenced by factors such as race/ethnicity, place, and socio-economic status long before individuals enter a doctor’s office. For that reason, much of our work aims to address social factors that influence health through the integration and coordination of care and services. By supporting integration, we aim to provide individuals and families with the full range of resources and supports that they need to thrive.

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GIH Annual Conference banner - Ideas, Innovations, Impact. Seattle 2019

2019 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2019 GIH annual conference, Ideas. Innovations. Impact., was held from June 12-14, 2019 in Seattle, Washington.

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Grantmaker Focus - Ralph C. Wilson Jr Foundation - Sep 2019

Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation is a grantmaking organization dedicated primarily to sustained investment in the quality of life of the people of Southeast Michigan and Western New York.

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A New JEDI Force: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

A New JEDI Force: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Farming the road is a mindset that closes that thousand-mile gap in the Eisenhower quote and allows funders to fully support rural communities as equal partners in the quest toward better health and brighter futures.

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Diane Kaplan

2019 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award Speech by Diane Kaplan

Diane Kaplan of the Rasmuson Foundation accepts the 2019 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.

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2019 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Shena Ashley

Shena Ashley, Vice President of the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, discusses the practice of equitable grantmaking, the outcomes of place-based impact investing, and the innovative use of data to inform and assess foundation strategy, among other topics.

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Calculating Risk: Considerations for Operationalizing Innovation and Planning for Failure May 2019

Philanthropy’s greatest freedom is, perhaps, the freedom to fail. This insight, stated in Terrance Keenan’s monograph (2000), “The Promise at Hand: Prospects for Foundation Leadership in the 1990s,” sparked robust dialogue during the 2018 Terrance Keenan Institute (TKI) for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy.

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AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation

Learn more about AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation’s mission, vision, and approach in this Grantmaker Focus profile.

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The Art and Practice of Rural Philanthropy

Newly formed conversion foundations and community foundations, often with rural areas in their grantmaking territories, have identified the absence of significant regional and national philanthropic attention to rural America.

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