Advancing Health Equity in Turbulent Times
With risk-taking and innovation as core values, the Consumer Health Foundation sought new ways to advance its work. This Views from the Field describes how the foundation applied a field-building approach to grantmaking and collaborative funding approaches to address health, economic, and racial equity priorities.
Tackling the Social Determinants of Health through Place-Based Initiatives
This webinar explored how health foundations are using place-based strategies to help create healthy and equitable communities. Participants discussed the challenges associated with place-based approaches, and heard how funders are building on past comprehensive community change initiatives.
How Much Do Healthy Communities Cost?
Research links decent, affordable housing and high-quality education to a range of positive social outcomes—including improved health.
Bridging Health and Community Development: Investing in People, Place, and Equity
This webinar focused on how these collaborations can strengthen communities, address the upstream factors that shape health, and lead to a shared vision for health equity.
Health Equity and Social Justice: A Health Improvement Tool
Disparate health outcomes are a reality of the American health system and are a result of not only of inadequacies in health care, but also the failure to address the social determinants of health.
The Cuban Prescription: Human-Centered Care
Earlier this year, members of Grantmakers In Health’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S.Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba. The primary objectives of the trip were to see the Cuban approach to health in action, and to consider whether there were takeaway lessons for the U.S. health system.
¡Que Viva! Latinos and Health Care in the South
The Latino population in the southern United States is flourishing, which offers the region an opportunity to enrich the fabric of their communities with dynamic and vital young families who are eager to thrive. This demographic shift has sparked strategic conversations within health philanthropy about how best to ensure that Latino communities in the southern states have access to quality, affordable health care.
2015 Terrance Keenan Award Speech by Gail Christopher
Gail Christopher, Vice President for Policy and Senior Advisor at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is honored with the 2015 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy. Listen to the podcast of her acceptance speech “Do All Lives Matter?” delivered at the 2015 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy. GIH established the Terrance Keenan Award…
2015 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
The 2015 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 4-6, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children’s Success
n recent years, Atlantic deliberately honed its investments and focused its grantmaking on a small number of big bets with potential for significant impact. One of these priorities was the over-use of “zero tolerance” suspensions, arrests, and expulsions, and their role in pushing children of color into the justice system.
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