2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Shifting From Hate to Health: The Benefits of Leading From within Community

In this Quick Take, hear from Jewish and Muslim leaders, and learn successful strategies to creating safer and more welcoming communities and drafting actionable steps for your organization.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention

This Quick Take session will explore the challenges and opportunities of establishing and sustaining hospital-based violence intervention programs.

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2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Virtual Crisis Care: Rural Innovation to Mental Health Crisis Response

This Quick Take will provide the nuts and bolts of how one state is piloting a statewide program to give rural law enforcement officers immediate access to mental health professionals using technology.

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Virtual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting

Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held the 2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health virtual meeting on June 3 and 4, 2021.

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How Does Climate Change Affect Children’s Mental Health?

This webinar explored both the effects of climate change on children’s mental health and the variety of approaches funders can take to build children’s resiliency and support the connections with community, adults, and educators that help children cope with uncertainty.

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Investing in Transformative Change: Helping States and Communities Align and Deploy Federal Funds

This webinar featured Jeffrey Levi of the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.  Participants learned more about the scale, scope, and distribution of federal COVID funding and explore how health funders are seeking to inform, influence, and facilitate forward-thinking investment decisions.

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Supporting Seriously Ill Elders in the COVID Era

This webinar discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic, examples of best and promising practices and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and what funders of all levels of experience serving these populations can do to make a difference.

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Making Healthy School Food Accessible: Key Lessons from the Pandemic

This webinar discussed the challenges school meal programs are facing due to the pandemic, key lessons learned, and roles grantmakers can play to ensure that schools and communities are equipped for success.

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Tools that Heal: Core Competencies for Frontline Complex Care Providers

In this webinar, Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health discussed recommendations for strengthening the complex care field and opportunities for health and aging philanthropy to support complex care providers.

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Self-Assessment for Health Foundation Boards

This webinar explores why foundations should consider a board self-assessment process and how this practice contributes to organizational effectiveness.

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Achieving an Affordable Health Care System

This webinar offered an overview on current cost drivers in the health care system, how policy teams in various states are tackling this work, and which populations are particularly at risk.

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COVID-19 and Systemic Inequality: Community-led Lessons for Funders

This webinar discussed a new report that focuses on the systemic inequalities that while magnified during COVID-19 have always been a reality for marginalized populations, including, but not limited to, those living with or at risk of HIV.

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Creating Resilient, Equitable, and Age-Friendly Communities

This in-depth conversation explored efforts to create more resilient, equitable, and age-friendly communities, including the evidence-based CAPABLE model.

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Expanding Telehealth Equitably

This timely conversation identified the limitations of telehealth and explored how philanthropy can help make this service delivery mode more equitable for all.

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

This meeting focused on reconciling emergency food response with need for food systems reform, but also covered several other topics (i.e., lifting-up grassroots voices and ending philanthropic paternalism; looking at natural disasters, equity, and food systems in addition to health outcomes and SDOH; climate change’s impacts on food systems; environmental justice and food systems; what the current public health response looks like with food systems; and investing at the federal and local policy levels).

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Rural Health Leadership Group

During this third conversation in GIH’s leadership series on rural health, GIH President and CEO Cara James convened rural leaders to advance recovery in rural areas and to increase philanthropic investments in those regions.

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Mastering the Vaccine Messaging: Funder Strategies and Collaborations

This session of the Media Impact Funders’ 2021 Forum explored how funders are supporting organizations, projects, and collaborations to promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence in communities of color.

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COVID-19 Philanthropy: Measuring One Year of Giving

This webinar highlighted key findings from a new report by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid. An update of Philanthropy and COVID-19 in the First Half of 2020, it examines how much funders gave, who they gave to, and what issues they supported.

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Upcoming Events on Health Equity and Social Justice

2025 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

Every year, GIH brings together the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy to discuss the important issues facing the field.

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2025 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting

Grantmakers In Health (GIH), the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the National Rural Health Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Rural Health will co-host the 2025 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting, welcoming foundations, federal entities, and other partners to discuss how our combined efforts might produce better health outcomes…

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CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions under the new administration.

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