Bridging Community Development, Health, and Metrics
The community development sector plays a vital role in improving neighborhood conditions, lifting people and places out of poverty, and transforming the health of low-income communities. Increasingly, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are partnering with health foundations to invest in health-promoting efforts such as affordable housing, health clinics, grocery stores, and child care centers.
Using Housing as a Platform to Improve Health
This webinar discussed how foundations are collaborating across sectors to address housing barriers, and supporting innovative approaches such as permanent supportive housing.
2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
The 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 9-11, 2016 in San Diego, California.
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Innovations in Health Equity
As foundations begin to think differently about how to improve the health of all people, many grantmakers are looking outside of health care and collaborating across sectors to address the root causes of persistent health disparities and inequities. Achieving health equity requires innovative solutions that result from the combined forces of philanthropy, policymakers, government, community-based organizations, and other partners.
Is the Energy Boom in Your Backyard? Oil and Gas Extraction Threatens Health and Communities Across the United States
The increasing use of a process called hydraulic fracturing–commonly called fracking–is transforming not only the nation’s energy supply, but also its landscape.
How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities?
How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities? was held on December 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
LGBT Health Funding Summit
The LGBT Health Funding Summit was held from November 19-20, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Building Healthy, Strong, and Vibrant Neighborhoods
This webinar presented concrete examples of how foundations can partner with community development corporations and community development financial institutions to improve neighborhood conditions and address the social determinants of health.
Supportive Housing: Strengthening Communities, Improving Health
Supportive housing has emerged as an innovative and comprehensive intervention that addresses the health inequities associated with housing instability, affordability, and homelessness. In this model, housing is combined with wraparound services such as primary and behavioral health care, case management, financial assistance, and legal counseling.
Advancing a Public Health Agenda for Native Communities
This webinar discussed the findings of the report, Seven Directions: A Blueprint for Advancing the Health and Wellness of Our Native Communities, and shared their insights and ideas about how philanthropy can help achieve health equity for Tribal and Urban Indian communities.
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