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Letter from the President, Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Bridging the Gap: How the Collaborative Care Model is Transforming Maternal Mental Health in Los Angeles
Stephanie Teleki, Director of Learning and Impact, California Health Care Foundation
Ian Bennett, Physician Supervisor, Family Health Services, Solano County Department of Health and Social Services
Mindy Vredevoogd, Research Scientist, University of Washington
Tess Grover, Research Coordinator, University of Washington
In California, as in the rest of the United States, the statistics regarding maternal mental health are alarming. Approximately one in five mothers suffers from mood and anxiety disorders during the perinatal period, which extends from pregnancy through one year postpartum. Yet, despite this high prevalence, the overwhelming majority of these women do not receive treatment. The barriers are systemic and multifaceted, including but not limited to behavioral health workforce shortages; a lack of integration between primary, perinatal, and behavioral health care; inadequate training for maternity care providers; and stigma.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Cultivating Health Through Shared Prosperity and Street Food
Genoveva Islas, Founder & Executive Director, Cultiva La Salud
A native of Fresno, I was raised in California’s Central Valley where I have now worked for a few decades. As a first-generation college student, my lived experience is very common for the children of farmworkers. My extended Mexican family was big, poor, uninsured, and suffered many losses from violence and preventable illnesses.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Funding Without Alignment Is Just Spending: Colorado’s Model for Alignment to Maximize Impacts on Youth Well-being
Renu K. Gupta-Fitzgerald, Grant Prioritization Program Manager, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Public funding for youth well-being isn’t lacking in effort or investment. But when dollars move through disconnected systems, even the best intentions can fail to translate into meaningful outcomes. What if the challenge isn’t how much we fund, but how those investments work together? Colorado is testing a different approach: aligning funding, data, and strategy across agencies so that public dollars can operate as a more coordinated system rather than a collection of parallel but sometimes siloed efforts.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Surplus-to-Care: A Systems Approach to Expanding Insulin and Diabetes Supplies Access
Svetlana Hutfles, Executive Director, Insulin for Life USA
Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Svetlana Hutfles of Insulin for Life USA (IFL USA) about the organization’s model to improve diabetes supplies access across the country, and how philanthropy can engage on this issue. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Taking the Risk to Shift Our Focus Upstream
Gail Garceau, President, New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation
Alisa Druzba, Director of Research and Community Impact, New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation
For nearly three decades, we at the Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation have operated with a clear and compassionate mission: to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children from birth to five years old and their families throughout New Hampshire. Yet after 28 years, we have made a deliberate and strategic decision to evolve our approach—shifting our focus “upstream” to address poverty as a root cause of the challenges we have long sought to mitigate.
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“While routine screenings save countless lives, many cancers do not have recommended screening tools. And accessing the tools that do exist can be difficult for people living in many communities across the U.S. These realities are why we do what we do, and why the foundation’s current Impact Grants cycle focuses on tackling some of these urgent gaps in cancer prevention and early detection.”
“Cancer prevention and early detection should be accessible to everyone—no matter who they are, what cancer they were diagnosed with or where they live. We’re working toward a world where we can prevent or detect every cancer and screening services are available in every community. To do this, we need to drive progress where it is needed most—bringing us closer to a world where cancer is preventable, detectable and beatable for all.”
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GIH NEWS
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Results from Grantmakers In Health’s 2025 Survey of Health Conversion Foundations
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This report provides an updated census of health conversion foundations, as well as key results from a web-based survey that Grantmakers In Health (GIH) conducted in Summer 2025. The foundations covered here arose from the sale, acquisition, merger, or conversion of a nonprofit health care organization (e.g., hospital, health system, health insurance plan) or legal settlement involving such an organization. GIH has been tracking this field since 1995 and has produced periodic reports based on surveys and/or a review of their websites and tax returns.
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Register Today for the 2026 GIH Annual Conference
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Time is running out to register for the 2026 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference! Join hundreds of peers in health philanthropy for four days in Baltimore, MD, from June 8-11, 2025.
This year’s conference theme—Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Health—recognizes where we started as a nation 250 years ago, and that there is much still to be done to protect the fundamental freedoms essential to health and well-being. At this critical moment with so many issues facing our field, conference speakers and sessions will challenge us to craft a vision of health that works, not just for a few, but for all.
The annual conference this June will build on the momentum of last year’s, the largest yet, attended by over 800 seasoned experts and innovative practitioners from all over the country. Make sure you secure your seat for this year’s conference so you're the first to know about soon-to-be-announced site visits, speakers, and sessions. Here’s what you can do now:
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Philanthropy Careers
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Grantmakers In Health offers a listing of current professional opportunities in health philanthropy on the GIH website. |
Recent opportunities:
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Submit an Opportunity to the GIH Career Board
Posts are free for GIH Funding Partners; for all others the cost is $99 for a 90-day post. At this time, we only accept positions based in health, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector. GIH retains the right to review all posts for appropriateness and relevance to our community. Please contact us at info@gih.org with any questions.
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PHILANTHROPY
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Grants & Programs
Sturdy Health (Attleboro, MA) • UniHealth Foundation (Pasadena, CA) • Washington Square Health Foundation (Chicago, IL)
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Transitions
Maria Cancian and Nimrod Good (Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation) • Amy Freitag, Carrie Trowbridge, Shawn Morehead, and Irfan Hasan (The New York Community Trust) • Joy Rosen, Audrey Shelto, and Marylou Sudders (RIZE Massachusetts Foundation) • Kathleen Gilmore and Karol E. Watson (UniHealth Foundation)
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Reports
Center for Effective Philanthropy (Cambridge, MA)
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