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).
2012 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy
2012 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy was held from March 7-9, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
2012 GIH Annual Meeting Site Visits
The 2012 GIH Annual Meeting Site Visits were held from March 7-8, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Health, Housing, and Homelessness
Specifically designed for funders, this webinar explored the intersection of health care and homelessness and the role philanthropy can play in establishing supportive housing as a cost-effective solution to one of our nation’s most pressing policy problems—rising public spending with poor outcomes for homeless individuals with chronic health conditions.
Healthy Places NC: Better Results through Place-Based Philanthropy
Place-based philanthropy brings together a wide range of local actors around an ambitious community-change agenda, with the foundation providing resources to implement key components in whatever strategy the community develops.
Going Beyond Grants to End Health Disparities
Several years ago, Hallmark Health System, which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and is located north of Boston, realized it had a substantial challenge: while its patient population had changed dramatically in terms of language and culture, its staff and management had not.
Reducing Health Disparities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans
This audioconference highlighted recent developments in identifying and reducing health disparities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans.
Disparities in Food Access and in Opportunities for Physical Activity
This article discusses the causes for the rising tide of preventable chronic disease, not only in Massachusetts but across the country. It also highlights some of the key factors that have produced this change and the parts of the population that are often more affected.
Weaving Together Prevention, Health Care Delivery, and Community Change
Participants joined this audioconference to learn about a new model—the community-centered health home—in which community health centers are engaged as active change agents, even as they deliver high-quality medical services.
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