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Letter from the President, Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…
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Issue Brief
Public Health Approaches to Firearm Violence Prevention
Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor, Grantmakers In Health
Firearm injuries are a serious public health problem, killing more than 47,000 Americans each year and becoming the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States in 2020. Given the impact and complexity of this health crisis, Grantmakers in Health (GIH) hosted a first-ever preconference session focused on firearm violence in advance of the June 2023 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy. Session speakers briefed partners on the causes of gun violence and provided an opportunity for health funders to learn more about potential solutions through a public health lens. This Issue Brief provides highlights of the meeting’s proceedings and previews GIH’s plans to convene a funder learning collaborative on firearm violence prevention to continue the peer learning and sharing that began at the preconference session.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Building Community Power to Improve Climate Resilience and Health Equity: Learning What It Takes
Jose Franco Garcia, Executive Director, Environmental Health Coalition
Samantha Hamilton, Director of Coalition Building and Community Engagement, Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts
Chris Kabel, Senior Fellow, Health, The Kresge Foundation
Over the past decade, many health foundations have shifted from funding specific programs to addressing social determinants of health by supporting policy and systems change strategies. Abundant research has demonstrated that low-income communities of color face structural barriers to health that more affluent white communities do not, ranging from access to healthy food to stable housing and clean air. These differences in community conditions didn’t happen by accident—they are the result of intentional policy decisions over generations that apportioned resources and opportunities along racial and ethnic lines.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Centering Black Voices: Lessons from a Two-Year Pilot Program in the Kansas City Region
Carla Gibson, Vice President of Programs, REACH Healthcare Foundation
Brenda Sharpe, CEO, REACH Healthcare Foundation
The REACH Healthcare Foundation’s mission is to advance health equity through coverage and care for underserved people. A regional foundation granting about $4.5 million annually, REACH recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark this milestone, Board and staff leadership reflected on the foundation’s evolution from a highly politicized health care conversion foundation at its inception to a philanthropy striving to reshape its actions and practices to reflect a more reparative approach focused squarely on health equity.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Healing for Our Healers: Funding Transformational Staff Wellness
Abby Hyman, Program Associate, The Healing Trust
The Healing Trust has prioritized support beyond the programmatic check since the early years of our grantmaking in 2003. While the “how” of the funding has changed over time, the “why” has consistently been to support the healing of nonprofit staff. This isn’t tangential to making strategic community-based investments, rather it is the foundation on which meaningful change can emerge. When funders invest in the well-being of the staff of partner organizations, it creates a culture where all people’s needs are prioritized and compassionately met. The nonprofit network thrives when its leaders are well-rested. When staff are well taken care of, the clients benefit by means of an energized supporter who shows up with creativity, patience, compassion, and joy.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Striving for Equity: Riding to Success with Mobile Health
Stewart Hudson, Executive Director, Leon Lowenstein Foundation
The Leon Lowenstein Foundation (LLF) is a family foundation established in 1941 with a focus on health, education, and the environment. In 2019, LLF adopted a new focus area for our health grantmaking. Our goal was to develop a strategy that would enable us to make a meaningful contribution to health equity, particularly through enhanced access to primary and preventive health services in disadvantaged communities.
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“There is never a shortage of needs in the communities we serve, but the health-related issues during the past few years have challenged our team to think creatively, expansively, and collaboratively. We believe private philanthropy should take risks and implement strategies to meet immediate health needs more efficiently and effectively. Being part of a community like GIH—which allows for the sharing of ideas, successes, and lessons learned—has been invaluable.”
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GIH NEWS
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Grantmakers In Health Seeks Nominations for 2024 Leadership and Advocacy Awards
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Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy and the 2024 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.
The awards will be designated to individuals who have made innumerable contributions in the fields of health and health care, and who exemplify the core values of the awards. Funders interested in submitting a nomination should review the award brochures, which outline eligibility guidelines and a reimagined, simplified application process. All nominations must be received by Friday, December 15, 2023.
Awardee announcements will be made in March 2024, and recipients will be presented with the awards at the GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy on June 4 - 6, 2024 in Portland, Oregon.
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The Story of Care: A Snapshot of the Care Narrative Change Landscape
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A new publication produced in collaboration by Asset Funders Network, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Economic Opportunity Funders, Grantmakers In Aging, Grantmakers In Health, and Disability & Philanthropy Forum provides a national landscape analysis of care economy narrative-change efforts. Its goals are to share with funders what kinds of narrative-change strategies and tactics are being employed, which care funders and grantees are already supporting and using them, where the most significant gaps and opportunities for learning and action are, and how philanthropy can best support this work.
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PHILANTHROPY
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Grants & Programs
The Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC) • Ethel and James Flinn Foundation (Detroit, Michigan) • The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts (Worcester, MA) • The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, Reliant Foundation, and RIZE Massachusetts (Worcester, MA) • Healthy Communities Foundation (Riverside, IL) • The Nord Family Foundation (Amherst, Ohio) • Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation (Pottstown, PA) • Rhode Island Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) • RRF Foundation for Aging (Chicago, IL)
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Awards
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Boston, MA) • The California Endowment (Los Angeles, CA)
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