views from the field by Octavio Martinez

Behavioral Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 is unmasking our shortcomings, gaps, disinvestments, disparities, inequities, and discrimination towards each other. Because COVID-19 is now so pervasive, this unmasking is playing out in multiple arenas simultaneously. One of the major ones is behavioral health.

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Authentically Integrating and Centering Lived Experience in Children and Families Grantmaking

On this webinar, participants learned about ways health funders and community members are leveraging lived experience best practices for equitable outcomes in children and families grantmaking, including in COVID-19 response planning.

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Supporting Immigrants During the COVID-19 Crisis

On this webinar, leaders in the immigrant rights movement discussed how philanthropy can increase grantmaking dollars, shift grantmaking practices, embrace risk, and assert leadership to meet the challenges of this moment.

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COVID-19: How Philanthropy Can Stand Up for Vulnerable Populations

This webinar addressed the limitations of governmental responses to the pandemic and how philanthropists can act directly, and act as advocates, for better protections for at-risk populations, including approaches for developing a public policy agenda for philanthropy, based in equity.

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Who Will Pay for Partnerships that Address Social Determinants of Health?

Relationships between health care institutions and networks of community-based organizations can improve health outcomes, but what does it really cost, and who should pay?

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Nonprofit Quarterly: COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future

In a commentary published today by Nonprofit Quarterly, PRE’s Lori Villarosa issued an urgent call to all grantmakers who have expressed solidarity with nonprofit partners during the Covid-19 global pandemic: act now now with an eye towards an equitable and just future by approaching rapid response grantmaking with a racial justice lens.

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Climate Change, Health, and Equity Survey Findings: Gaps, Needs, and Opportunities

Climate Change, Health, and Equity Survey Findings: Gaps, Needs, and Opportunities

This report summarizes the findings of a fall 2019 survey on the landscape of climate change, health, and equity funding and organizational work. The survey’s purpose is to add to the understanding of the resource gaps, needs, and opportunities in this critical and expanding field.

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The Climate, Health, and Equity Funding Landscape

This webinar detailed the results of a national survey of foundations and nonprofits working on climate, health, and equity.

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Supporting Sustainable Networks of Community Based Organizations to Improve Health

Participants explored early learnings from the ARCH initiative’s efforts, including emerging payment models, challenges encountered, and promising practices.

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