How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities?
How Can Metrics Inform and Advance Healthy Communities? was held on December 4, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
LGBT Health Funding Summit
The LGBT Health Funding Summit was held from November 19-20, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Building Healthy, Strong, and Vibrant Neighborhoods
This webinar presented concrete examples of how foundations can partner with community development corporations and community development financial institutions to improve neighborhood conditions and address the social determinants of health.
Supportive Housing: Strengthening Communities, Improving Health
Supportive housing has emerged as an innovative and comprehensive intervention that addresses the health inequities associated with housing instability, affordability, and homelessness. In this model, housing is combined with wraparound services such as primary and behavioral health care, case management, financial assistance, and legal counseling.
Advancing a Public Health Agenda for Native Communities
This webinar discussed the findings of the report, Seven Directions: A Blueprint for Advancing the Health and Wellness of Our Native Communities, and shared their insights and ideas about how philanthropy can help achieve health equity for Tribal and Urban Indian communities.
Fostering Partnerships to Improve Native American Health
This webinar explored how foundations can foster meaningful partnerships with tribal communities and support strength-based approaches to improve the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Tackling the Social Determinants of Health through Place-Based Initiatives
This webinar explored how health foundations are using place-based strategies to help create healthy and equitable communities. Participants discussed the challenges associated with place-based approaches, and heard how funders are building on past comprehensive community change initiatives.
Bridging Health and Community Development: Investing in People, Place, and Equity
This webinar focused on how these collaborations can strengthen communities, address the upstream factors that shape health, and lead to a shared vision for health equity.
The Cuban Prescription: Human-Centered Care
Earlier this year, members of Grantmakers In Health’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S.Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba. The primary objectives of the trip were to see the Cuban approach to health in action, and to consider whether there were takeaway lessons for the U.S. health system.
¡Que Viva! Latinos and Health Care in the South
The Latino population in the southern United States is flourishing, which offers the region an opportunity to enrich the fabric of their communities with dynamic and vital young families who are eager to thrive. This demographic shift has sparked strategic conversations within health philanthropy about how best to ensure that Latino communities in the southern states have access to quality, affordable health care.
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