Policy Unsweetened: Tackling Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Grantmakers’ interest in supporting healthy eating policies has grown over the past two decades and been rewarded with considerable progress. Nonetheless, the next phase of policy work brings new challenges, opportunities, and questions. To explore these issues, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies, a strategic conversation for funders, practitioners, and experts in Sacramento, California.
Healthy Eating and Active Living: Checking in on Philanthropy’s Investments
The Surgeon General’s Call to Action in 2001 sparked widespread public concern about the rising prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States. Since then, many health funders have supported obesity prevention, healthy eating/active living, and healthy living.
Recipe for In-Clinic Nutrition Education
When The Colorado Health Foundation began funding in the healthy living space in 2007, staff saw nutrition education as an avenue to encourage the consumption of healthy foods.
Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies
Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies was held September 29-30, 2015 in Sacramento, California.
Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities
This webinar discussed what the Surgeon General hopes to accomplish with his Call to Action, what the recommendations are and the science behind them, what the Call to Action means for health funders, and how grantmakers can play a role in the work ahead.
Help All Children Grow Up at a Healthy Weight
Nearly a decade ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation set an ambitious goal for itself and for the nation: reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Advancing Indigenous Farmworker Health Care
This webinar explored collaborative partnerships and the integrative work happening across multiple sectors, which is helping increase the access of health care for farmworker communities.
Using Digital Technology to Promote Healthy Food Access
This webinar explored how digital technologies can improve health outcomes by increasing consumer knowledge and empowering consumer decisionmaking.
Philanthropy and Community Development: Partners In Health
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are funding projects across the nation to support health care centers and clinics, grocery stores with healthy food options, and healthy housing. Read this Issue Focus on how CDFIs are a valuable potential partner for health philanthropy.
Improving Access to Healthy Food in Rural Communities
During this webinar funders learned about strategies to improve access to healthy food in rural communities, ranging from partnerships with community development finance institutions to local policy change efforts.
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