Rethinking Juvenile Justice: Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Crossover Youth
Over the past decade, the Sierra Health Foundation has invested in community efforts to improve the health and well-being of youth. As they focused efforts around juvenile justice, the foundation believed it to be a critical and opportunity-laden moment in which a regional funder could influence juvenile justice policy and practice across the entire state and perhaps the nation.
Investing in Opportunities and Assets: Lessons from the South for the Nation
Investing in Opportunities and Assets: Lessons from the South for the Nation was held September 6-7, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Briefing on Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field
This audiconference focused on GIH’s latest report, Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field, which highlights funder strategies along a continuum of upstream and downstream approaches to address health disparities.
Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field
Striving for Health Equity: Opportunities as Identified by Leaders in the Field is an exploration of grantmaking options to support health equity goals. Strategies discussed describe opportunities for intervening along a continuum of upstream and downstream approaches to address health disparities.
Another Call to Go Upstream: Housing Is Health
Research over the decades has indicated that factors, such as education, income, occupation, housing, neighborhood environment, race, and ethnicity, have a powerful influence on health and are often referred to as the “root cause” of poor health.
Health in Mind: Addressing Disparities at the Intersection of Health and Education
This audioconference revealed recommendations outlined in “Health In Mind: Improving Education Through Wellness,” and how funders have become involved in this issue to address health disparities.
Food and Health for All: Health Equity for Agricultural Farmworkers
Farmworkers—the hands that grow and supply so much of our daily food—pay a high price with their health and often their lives to provide our nourishment. Living below the U.S. federal poverty level, those who feed our nation are a young workforce facing economic, educational, health, and linguistic challenges.
Cultivating Culturally Competent Organizations: Making the Transition for Health Equity
In an environment characterized by increasing cultural diversity, health philanthropy continues to develop new approaches to promote health equity. As foundations learn from past work, that field is shifting.
The Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality
In 2008 the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided CityMatCH, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and the National Healthy Start Association with a $400,000 grant to create the Partnership to Eliminate Disparities in Infant Mortality, focused on eliminating racial inequities contributing to infant mortality in U.S. urban areas.
Intervention Points to Promote Equity: A Funder Strategy
Over the last decade, the field of health philanthropy has trail blazed efforts seeking to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity. However, while health foundations have raised public awareness of inequities and have funded interventions designed to reduce disparities, health and health care inequities persist (Benz et al. 2011).
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