2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Closing the Gap: Evaluating Rural Communities with a Health Equity Lens

How do health philanthropies know if their investments are addressing health equity? Closing the disparity gap? Producing meaningful change? Nationally, rural communities face increasing health, socioeconomic, and geographic challenges. As philanthropy turns its focus towards this work, it is essential to monitor and evaluate the change that foundation investments are driving. Using Healthcare Georgia Foundation’s The Two Georgias Initiative as a guiding framework, this Quick Take will explore the role of philanthropy and intermediaries, innovative evaluation tools and resources, and lessons learned about what it takes to build rural community capacity to measure health equity impacts.

This session was designed by Healthcare Georgia Foundation and supported by the GIH Effective Philanthropy Fund.