Executive Order on DEI: What Nonprofits and Philanthropies Need to Know

Join this webinar for a discussion on how this action affects nonprofits and philanthropy. Legal expert Emily Cuneo DeSmedt of Morgan Lewis will provide valuable insights to help nonprofits and philanthropies understand this order.

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Pathways to Economic Inclusion: Exploring the Intersection of Tax, Health, and Family Well-Being

Tune in for a timely discussion that delves into the critical connections between tax equity, health equity, and family well-being. This webinar offered an overview of the 2025 tax landscape, examining key topics such as the proven power of cash-based initiatives to improve health outcomes, the ability to scale these efforts in the form of federal tax credits, and the opportunity for collective action to advocate for a more equitable revenue system.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Equitable Approaches to Firearm Violence Prevention Research and Evaluation

The Black and Brown Collective for Community Solutions to Gun Violence is a network of dozens of multidisciplinary researchers across academic and other research organizations that engage in and promote rigorous, culturally-responsive, and equitable research on community violence. The Collective is developing an equitable research framework designed to guide community-engaged research in and with Black and Brown neighborhoods impacted by gun violence. This webinar explored the context that motivated the framework and its development, examined opportunities and challenges with using an equitable research framework, and provided concrete and practical examples of how the framework can be used and applied in community violence prevention research projects.

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GIA & GIH Funder Briefing on the Older Americans Act Reauthorization

Despite bipartisan attempts until the 11th hour, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024 was not passed. With a new Congress and Administration, there is a new landscape for what may come next for the OAA and other important health and aging policies. Join us for an update on OAA reauthorization, a discussion of national aging policy and funding, and GIH and GIA’s plans for supporting OAA reauthorization and other important aging policies in 2025. Speakers include Amy Gotwals of USAging and Marci Phillips of National Council on Aging.

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Weathering the Storm: Health Funders’ Role in Climate Emergency Response

This webinar featured firsthand experiences from health funders who were directly impacted by extreme weather events. Watch the recording to gain valuable insights into the challenges faced by these funders in responding to the crises, the strategies they implemented in collaboration with affected communities, and the actions they are taking in the face of future climate disasters.

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Funder Webinar on the Intersections of Housing Instability, Homelessness, and Maternal Mental Health

This webinar explored the intersectional nature of housing instability and maternal mental health, and discussed the complexities of these issues through the insights of leading voices working to address family well-being. Watch this recording to learn about cutting-edge research underway to understand the impacts of housing instability on maternal mental health. 

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How the Care Movement is Organizing Against Devastating Federal Tax and Budget Cuts

This important webinar examined the potentially devastating impact of possible federal budget and tax cuts on women, children, older adults, and people with disabilities and the care movement’s planned response. These budget cuts could shift costs onto states, undermining family health and income security. The effects could reverberate across generations, reverse gains for women, children, older adults, people with disabilities, and workers, and hinder future federal public investments in equitable childcare, paid leave, aging, and disability care. Watch the recording to learn how a cross-issue, cross-generational state and federal movement is raising the voices of the families most impacted, and how philanthropy can engage at this pivotal moment.

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Health Care Policy in 2025: What to Expect from Congress and the Trump Administration

 In this timely webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners provided an overview of what to expect from Congress and the Administration, focusing on key legislative priorities and executive actions, and shared their predictions for what to watch over the first 100 days. Speakers addressed the role that budget reconciliation could play in shaping the nation’s policy landscape, the implications for funders, and the challenges and opportunities presented while navigating this expedited process.

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SCOTUS: Expanding Philanthropy’s Equity Lens

Several recent Supreme Court decisions, including Dobbs, Loper Bright, and Students for Fair Admissions, have significant implications for philanthropy’s health improvement and health equity goals. Reprising a popular panel discussion held during GIH’s 2024 Health Policy Exchange, this session explored the many ways SCOTUS rulings have shifted the health policy landscape and how health funders can become more engaged in supporting legal advocacy to influence judicial decision making. Speakers included Michele Bratcher Goodwin of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center, Giridhar Mallya of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Skye L. Perryman of the Democracy Forward Foundation.

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CDC Injury Center at Risk – What’s Ahead?

This webinar examined the Injury Center’s vital activities, explored potential threats to future capacity, and considers the role of health funders in supporting the Injury Center’s continued ability to track trends, conduct research, raise awareness, and implement prevention programs in partnership with states, localities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations.

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Medicaid: Protect and Defend

Participants learned about what policy changes and funding cuts are possible with the incoming presidential administration and the 119th U.S. Congress. Presenters shared reflections and suggested opportunities for funders to protect and defend this vital program.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Exploring the Current Policy Landscape

Grantmakers In Health offers a series of Learning Community programs to advance philanthropic strategies for preventing firearm-related deaths and injuries. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that public policies have a significant influence on various types of firearm-related outcomes, including homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. This virtual convening of the Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community explored the current policy landscape —both recent policy developments and future opportunities for policy change at the state and federal levels— and considered how philanthropic investments can best inform and influence policymakers. Speakers included Sean Holihan of Giffords, Nick Suplina of Everytown for Gun Safety, and Adzi Vokhiwa of Community Justice Action Fund.

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Bridging Health Equity in Indian Country: Navigating the Public Health Crisis

Participants joined this webinar for an in-depth briefing on the current health trends that drove the public health crisis in Indian Country and the critical health policy initiatives that shaped these trends.

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Connecting Pediatricians, Families, and Schools for Thriving Youth

Leaders from the field explored how EdNavigator connected across systems to solve education challenges for children and youth in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington, DC, and how this cross-systems approach was a game changer in enabling children and youth to access the services they needed to thrive in school.

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CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to have convened the CEO Working Group in October, which offered foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years the opportunity to discuss the challenges they are facing as new CEOs with one another and seasoned leaders in the field.

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to advance policy change.  

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences supporting legal advocacy to advance policy change.

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Investing in Equity: Funders’ Role in Forming Food is Medicine

Participants engaged in a conversation focused on how strategic investments in community-based organizations (CBOs) could set a course for equity and advance the Food is Medicine landscape with integrity.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Roundtable Discussion

Join this virtual convening of the Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community to reflect on learnings to date, share experiences and challenges supporting this work, and set priorities for future programming. This interactive discussion will also include an introduction to a new software platform designed to facilitate communication, collaboration, and resource sharing among participants.

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2024 Rural Health Philanthropy Partnership Meeting

Participants will have the opportunity to connect with one another, share ideas, and discuss how combined efforts can produce better outcomes for rural communities.

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Upcoming Events on Advocacy Strategies

Funder Approaches to Addressing the Critical Connection Between Youth Mental Wellness and Financial Wellness

Curious about the connection between mental well-being and financial security during adolescence and young adulthood?

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, most mental health conditions are diagnosed during the same life stage when young people are building the skills and accessing opportunities that shape their financial futures. Mental and financial well-being are deeply interconnected—each influences and reinforces the other.

When young people experience mental wellness, they’re better equipped to manage money, handle stress, make informed decisions, and seek help when needed. At the same time, financial security reduces one of the most common sources of stress that can contribute to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. Yet, despite these strong linkages, funders often treat mental health and financial well-being as separate priorities.

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Reducing Gun Violence in New Orleans through Cross-Sector Collaboration with Philanthropy

Firearm violence is a preventable public health issue that affects communities across the United States. Yet, rates of exposure vary significantly from one region to another, shaped by socio-economic disparities, demographics, and local gun policies. This webinar explores the role of multi-sector partnerships, including the philanthropic sector, to effectively reduce firearm violence. 

The moderated discussion will be a candid conversation about best practices and key challenges in developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining violence intervention programs. Panelists include credible messengers from a community-based organization, local government, and an academic research partner, who are collaborating to reduce violence through community and hospital-based programs in New Orleans, Louisiana. Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of the critical role of philanthropy in advancing efforts to reduce firearm violence, along with insights to facilitate successful cross-sector collaboration.  

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Navigating Birth Justice and Reproductive Equity in Precarious Times: Insights, Challenges, and Strategies for Funders

The birth justice and reproductive equity landscape in the U.S. has continued to shift following the 2022 Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade. In addition to reduced abortion access, communities, birthing people, and the partners working with them are facing growing challenges to reproductive and perinatal care—including uncertainty around Medicaid and other public funding critical to sustaining services. 

This webinar will bring together health funders to share insights, experiences, and challenges encountered while supporting this work in an evolving landscape. The discussion will focus on how s funders are navigating the legal, policy, and funding changes and their investments that center the dignity, safety, and autonomy of birthing people and their communities. 

Please note this webinar will not be recorded as we want this to be a safe space for a candid discussion.  

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