Improving Equitable Outcomes for Mothers and Children by Expanding the Doula Workforce  

Leaders in the field discussed policy actions and explored opportunities for philanthropic engagement in the expansion of doula services.

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Aligning Foundation Communications to Restore Trust in Public Health

Communications professionals connected for a series of candid, confidential, and unscripted discussions designed to strengthen our alignment and explore the potential for collective action.

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Connections to Nature and Green Spaces: A Path to Health Equity

During this webinar, we discussed the benefits of green spaces and strategies being employed to equitably expand access to communities of color.

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Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Workforce for Children and Families

Participants explored multi-year initiatives that build the capacity of community health centers to deliver high-quality, evidence-informed, trauma-responsive, integrated behavioral health care to children and adolescents.

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Trends in Routine Vaccination and Preventive Services for Children

A robust conversation was held on evidence to date about missed immunizations and well-child visits, gaps in data, and implications for children’s health and public health.

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The Long View: Operating in Complexity

Codesigned by The Rippel Foundation and Grantmakers In Health, this webinar featured Carolyn Wang Kong of Blue Shield of California Foundation. She shared how the foundation infuses adaptive learning cycles, experimentation, and the centering of lived experience into its approach of operating in complexity.

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Reinforcing the Safety Net: Ensuring the Future of 340B

This webinar focused on the critical role the 340B Drug Pricing Program plays in financing health services in the United States.

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Health Equity Networking Call

This call is part of a series of ongoing discussions to improve trends, innovations, funding needs, data collection, community engagement, and equity audits.

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Philanthropic Action for Children’s Health Equity

Nemours Children’s Health and Grantmakers In Health cosponsored convening where health funders explored how best to align efforts with federal partners and other grantmaking institutions across the country. Participants considered collective and strategic actions designed to improve health equity for children, families, and communities.

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Addressing the Urgency of Youth Mental Health

This webinar explored issues our youth are facing and uplifting ways that philanthropy can take action to support youth mental health, especially in ways that are culturally responsive and center collective healing.

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Public Health Modernization: How Funders Can Support Health Departments to Advance Health Equity

This webinar explored how health funders can advance health equity by supporting governmental public health and collaborating with health departments.

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The Long View: New Year, New Practices

Co-designed by the Rippel Foundation and Grantmakers In Health, this webinar featured Cassie Robinson, a futurist and philanthropic leader who works, as she describes it, in the “entanglement of what-is and what-might-be.”

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Disability Justice: What Funders Can Do to Address Disparities, Equity, and Health

This webinar explored innovative measures to address how philanthropy can advance disability justice and how grassroots organizations are helping to change the national dialogue on disability, health equity, and race.

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Roundtable Discussion for Funders with Limited Assets

Foundations with assets less than $30 million face unique challenges as they seek to maximize their impact in the communities they serve. At this informal networking session, peers had a robust conversation around the most important issues.

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CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage Call

Leaders in the field discussed the challenges this presents to states, and explore the strategies state officials and consumer advocates are designing to promote coverage retention.

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Rural Health Care Workforce: Urgent Challenges and Promising Opportunities

This webinar started with an update on rural health care workforce challenges and opportunities which led to an in-depth discussion about philanthropy’s engagement in filling gaps and supporting communities.

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Centering Health and Racial Equity: It’s an Inside Job

This webinar explored long-term plans, promising processes, and lessons learned in centering equity and racial justice at their foundations.

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Equitable and Sustainable Children’s Oral Health Services in the Carolinas

A robust conversation was held about an exciting effort to expand oral health services to rural and underserved communities in North and South Carolina, through a school-based model supported by three foundations and their state partners.

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Food Access and Security Learning Community Calls

 This meeting will feature an update on and discussion of federal priorities and opportunities for public-private partnership to improve nutrition security. The meeting will feature Kumar Chandran, Senior Advisor – Nutrition, in the Office of the Secretary at USDA. 

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Racial Inequities in Medical Debt: Causes and Potential Solutions

This discussion covered viewpoints on the problem of medical debt, the people most at risk, and potential points of engagement for philanthropy.

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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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