Leveraging Federal Funding for Climate Justice in Midwestern Frontline Communities

This meeting will discuss pathways for federal resources with high relevance for climate justice work in the Midwest, with a focus on funding managed by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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The Future of Access to Reproductive Health Services

In this 90-minute webinar, participants discussed the decision’s impact on reproductive health services across the country and explored the roles funders can play in this moment.

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Funder Briefing: Policy, Funding Opportunities, and Approaches that Advance Food is Medicine

We convened for a funder briefing and conversation about policy opportunities and approaches to advance food is medicine.

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Responding to the Monkeypox Virus Outbreak

This webinar brought together activists, researchers, and funders to discuss the critical role philanthropy can play in addressing stigma, supporting prevention outreach and vaccine equity, as well as providing unrestricted support to community-led organizations engaged in the response.

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Local Impact Investing Models for Health Conversion Foundations

LOCUS Impact Investing and Grantmakers In Health held a virtual – and conversational – learning session designed to identify guideposts for best practice by health conversion foundation local investors.

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Aligning Your Company’s and Foundation’s Social Impact Strategies

In this webinar, we explored how the Florida Blue Foundation and its parent company conducted a social impact strategy refresh related to corporate social responsibility and environmental, social, and corporate governance.

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Advancing State Data Collection on Opioid Treatment

This webinar learned about a national initiative launched by the Pew Charitable Trusts that offers states a core set of metrics to track opioid treatment access and use. Presenters described how better data collection can target critically needed progress and discuss the role philanthropy can play in these efforts.

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2022 Annual Conference Strategy Session Highlights: Advancing LGBTQI+ Health Equity

Admiral Rachel Levine opened a special strategy session discussing the acute health needs of LGBTQI+ communities, recent threats to LGBTQI+ equality and well-being, and promising philanthropic strategies to secure LGBTQI+ health equity. Levine’s remarks are excerpted here.

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Public Health After COVID-19: What’s Our North Star?

The closing plenary highlighted the public health challenges that have gone unaddressed while our attention has been focused on COVID-19, what we need to do to rebuild the public health system, and how to address our critical workforce needs in the wake of the pandemic.

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Divided We Stand: Misinformation, Mistrust, and Our Inability to Solve Our Health Challenges

This important plenary discussion delved into the misinformation crisis affecting public health, the public’s increasing mistrust of expertise, and how we can navigate and bridge our nation’s growing divides.

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LGBTQ and Racial Equity: Two Sides of the Same Coin

This plenary covered recent policy threats affecting LGBTQ and BIPOC communities and explored how philanthropy can help build alliances that change systems and advance health equity for all.

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Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy and the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy 2022 Recipients

This special plenary luncheon honored the winners of GIH’s 2022 awards: Janice B. Yost and Evelyn Delgado.

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Advancing Equitable, Quality Care for People with Serious Illness

This dynamic conversation explored the challenges people with serious illness face in receiving quality care, why addressing these needs is critical to achieving health equity, and where there are opportunities for philanthropy to chart a better path forward.

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2022 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: 40 Years Together and Focused on the Future

Our opening plenary reflected on health philanthropy’s last 40 years and discussed the current state of health care, public health, and the challenges ahead.

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2022 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy

The 2022 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy will be held June 27-29 virtually and in Miami Beach, Florida. The GIH Annual Conference is the best place to meet up with the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy today.

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Caring for Our Health Care Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for Philanthropy

This webinar helped participants to better understand the landscape of health care workforce needs, discuss the strategies that attendees are currently engaged in, and highlight the ways philanthropy can build on existing state and federal efforts to ensure a comprehensive response.

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Accelerating Healthy Aging Through Impact Investing

Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health codesigned a webinar that taught participants about strategies to structure and deliver capital to drive and sustain solutions.

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The Long View: Centering Equity in Your Philanthropic Practice

The Rippel Foundation and Grantmakers In Health codesigned a webinar where participants heard from philanthropic leaders Tiffany Donelson, President, and CEO of the Connecticut Health Foundation, and Qiana Thomason, President, and CEO of Health Forward Foundation.

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Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health

Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were pleased to convene the Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health meeting on June 2 and 3, 2022.

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Millions of Children Still at Risk of Losing Health Insurance Coverage 

Despite recent progress toward expanding health insurance access for families, millions of children are at risk of losing coverage when the public health emergency comes to an end.  

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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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