Harnessing 21st Century Technological Innovation to Promote Health
Technology has progressed by leaps and bounds since the turn of the 21st century, especially for consumers. Digital health innovations are rapidly being imagined, developed, and explored worldwide. While the potential of these technological tools is exhilarating, many questions remain regarding their development, efficacy, implementation, and place in the larger scheme of health grantmaking.
Advancing Health Equity through Digital Storytelling
This webinar examined how digital storytelling practices are being used to improve health outcomes, influence decision makers, and amplify the voices of vulnerable communities.
Health Impact Assessments– A Pathway to Health Equity
Health impact assessments offer an approach that helps build robust collaborations between health and other sectors by providing timely, accurate, and relevant information intended for use in real-time decisionmaking.
Addressing the Health Needs of LGBT Elders
This Issue Focus article is adapted from an October 30, 2013 GIH webinar discussing the health issues and challenges face by LGBT elders and how grantmakers are supporting efforts to improve related services, policies, and research.
2014 GIH Annual Meeting
The 2014 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held March 5-7, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Public Policy and the Equity Agenda
While a number of leading organizations have called for health in all policies, imagine if the field went a step further to call for health equity in all policies.
Making Health Happen for Our Sons and Brothers
In April 2013, leaders from The California Endowment (TCE) and more than two dozen philanthropic foundations pledged to form an alliance to strengthen the sector’s investment in creating greater opportunities and wellness for black males and other males of color.
Investing in Legal Aid to Promote Individual and Population Health
On this webinar, participants learned more about how legal interventions connect to current investment priorities in health philanthropy.
Equity for All: Entry Points to Elevate LGBT Health
Health funders have provided limited direct philanthropic support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health. Many question whether LGBT issues should be integrated into mainstream systems and organizations or if they should be supported through targeted strategies. Since few health grantmakers are prepared to carve out a separate programmatic area focused on this issue, a growing opportunity exists for health funders to provide more purposeful support for LGBT health within existing grantmaking strategies to address health disparities and promote health equity.
Lessons for Strategic Health Equity Grantmaking
Over the past several years, a growing community of funders has begun to identify health equity as a grantmaking priority. No single roadmap exists for doing this work.
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