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Letter from the President, Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…
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January / February 2023
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When we launched our strategic plan, we noted that to achieve our vision of better health for all through better philanthropy we would need to use our voice to take a more active role to influence advocacy, policy, and funding in targeted areas that will advance health and make a lasting, measurable impact. Our current health “system” is not designed to promote health and wellness, but to provide care once a person is sick, and it is built on a foundation of inequity based on health coverage, or a lack thereof.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
The Gun Violence Epidemic: Lessons From Newark, New Jersey
Lisa Block, Senior Program Officer, The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
The Newark, New Jersey community has made remarkable progress improving community safety and reducing gun violence. This past June, a seminal report, The Future of Public Safety: Exploring the Power and Possibility of
Newark’s Reimagined Public Safety Ecosystem, was released by Equal Justice USA, the City of Newark, and the Newark Community Street Team. Researchers utilized community participatory research to assess Newark’s impactful
approaches to improving public safety.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
SASH: Health Equity Begins at Home
Nancy Rockett Eldridge, MA, Chief Executive Officer, National Well Home Network
Lisa Dulsky Watkins, MD, Director, Primary Care Networks, Milbank Memorial Fund
A decade ago, primary care practices and housing nonprofits in Vermont partnered to reduce chronic conditions among older adults and younger adults with a disability in collaboration with the state’s Blueprint for
Health. Today, as an extender of the Blueprint, Support and Services at Home (SASH), which supports healthy aging in place, is helping to advance health equity in the state.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
What Can Be Done About Disparities in Birth Outcomes? Follow The BIPOC Leaders.
Joanna Lauen, Program Director, Reproductive Health and Justice, Irving Harris Foundation
Melissa Gradilla, Director of Grantmaking, Every Mother Counts
Naa Amissah-Hammond, Senior Director of Grantmaking, Groundswell Fund
Sona Smith, Program Officer, Birth Justice, Ms. Foundation for Women
There has long been a movement of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) birth and reproductive justice leaders addressing the impact of racism and oppression on pregnant and birthing people and their families.
Their work has galvanized funders and policymakers to focus their efforts on ending the inequities in birth outcomes, opening up a national conversation about advancing community driven solutions to our country’s
perinatal health crisis as well as creating opportunity for change within philanthropy.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023
Walter Panzirer, Trustee, Helmsley Charitable Trust
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, a mental health crisis was growing in America, with 1 in 10 adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression. Today, that number is 3 in 10. The recently launched 988 hotline—the mental
health equivalent and alternative to 911—is a monumental step forward in changing how we acknowledge and respond to mental health needs nationally. It finally puts mental health on equal ground with physical health—a
recognition long overdue—but it is only a first step in addressing the multitude of behavioral health needs.
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“U.S. Census Bureau projections foresee the number of people age 65 and older rising dramatically in the next decade. With an aging population, there is a growing need to provide training and self-care relief, sustainable
systems, and better resources for the nation's 53 million unpaid family caregivers currently serving a vital role in our long-term care health system. We also must address the issues of social isolation and loneliness, which
are most detrimental to older adults. The two matters of family caregiving and social-emotional well-being underscore ways that aging issues intersect with health care concerns. These and other interrelated challenges are
matters that funders can consider and approach collectively.”
“Philanthropy has a role to play in addressing these and many other concerns. In our view, grantmaking organizations can and must collaborate to find and fund solutions that directly and proactively meet the critical and
mounting needs of our country’s aging communities.”
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GIH NEWS
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2022 Year in Review
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The 2022 Grantmakers In Health Year in Review looks back at GIH’s work to support Funding Partners and advance better health for all, reflects on our 40th anniversary celebration, and provides an update on our
ongoing strategic plan implementation.
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Cara V. James Interviewed by Off the Charts Podcast
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Grantmakers In Health (GIH) President and CEO Cara V. James was interviewed on the December 26, 2022 episode of the Off the Charts podcast about health equity and social justice.
Listen Now
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PHILANTHROPY
@ WORK
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Transitions and Appointments
Judy Belk (California Wellness Foundation) • Temi F. Bennett and Hanh Le (if, A Foundation for Radical Possibility) • Shannon Clancy (BHHS Legacy Foundation) • Mary Katherine Snead, Cassidy Reynolds, and Rochelle Williams (Mary Black Foundation)
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Awards
Con Alma Health Foundation (Santa Fe, NM)
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Grants & Programs
BHHS Legacy Foundation (Phoenix, AZ) • Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC) • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Boston, MA) • Burke Foundation (Princeton, NJ) • Con Alma Health Foundation (Santa Fe, NM) • Foundation for a Healthy High Point (High Point, NC) • John A. Hartford Foundation (New York, NY) • Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation (Pottstown, PA) • RRF Foundation for Aging (Chicago, IL)
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