Health Policy Update: April 17, 2025
In an effort to help our Funding Partners better understand the changing health policy landscape in the new administration and Congress, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is expanding the GIH Health Policy Update newsletter to three issues per month. Working in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, a leading health care policy consultancy, we are adding new installments of the newsletter on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, while we will continue to partner with Trust for America’s Health on the installment released on the second Wednesday of the month.
Strategic Initiatives: Finding Your Niche
This GIH Issue Focus answers common questions about strategic initiatives and provides examples to highlight the wide variety of health grantmaking being conducted through these initiatives.
Youth Mentoring: Creative Strategies for Promoting Youth Health
This GIH Issue Focus describes the methods and strategies of youth mentoring programs, research findings on program effectiveness, and foundation support of youth mentoring programs.
Prevention and Women’s Health: Can Philanthropy Make a Difference?
This GIH Issue Focus makes the case for funding in prevention and women’s health and describes approaches being taken by grantmakers.
Long-Term Care Quality: Facing the Challenges of an Aging Population
As our population ages, and the need for long-term care services grows, issues surrounding the quality of care, as well as the quality of life, will become increasingly important. Based on a recent GIH Issue Dialogue, this Issue Focus explores ways in which grantmakers can partner with policymakers, health care professionals, advocacy groups, and patients and their families to improve the quality of long-term care.
Peer Assessment: A Pilot Program for Health Philanthropy
This GIH Issue Focus discusses GIH’s new peer assessment pilot program.
Health Philanthropy and Communities: Grantmakers Share Their Views
This GIH Issue Focus recaps a preconference session at the GIH Annual Meeting, in which Sue Bunting (Foundation for Seacoast Health), Ed Meehan (The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust), and Patricia O’Connor (The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati) addressed the role of foundations in communities.
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