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.
Fostering Partnerships to Improve Native American Health
This webinar explored how foundations can foster meaningful partnerships with tribal communities and support strength-based approaches to improve the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Fulfilling the Promise of Equality: Ensuring that “Health for All” Extends to Everyone
The Affordable Care Act is crucial toward fixing a health care system that has been broken for far too long. But ensuring that “health for all” extends to everyone will require policymakers and advocates to pursue a more inclusive approach to health care reform
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.
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