Letter from the President, Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…

April 2018

Recommitting to the Journey
A few weeks ago, I was the moderator for a conversation about “Building, Protecting, and Promoting Evidence to Achieve Health Equity,” between Rich Besser of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Bob Ross of The California Endowment. The foundations share a commitment to health equity, but their approaches to achieving it vary in interesting ways.
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Learn more about Peer Review
Using Rapid Evidence Reviews to Inform Health Funders’ Decisions
For funders seeking to make evidence-based investments, understanding what we know and do not know from existing research is an important first step. Between 2015 and 2017, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned AcademyHealth, the professional society for health services research, and its Translation and Dissemination Institute, to develop and test a “rapid evidence review” process that could meet the needs of decisionmakers for fast, low-cost, but rigorous syntheses of evidence about health-related services and programs.
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Grantmaker Focus: George Family Foundation
Historically, philanthropy at its best has been the engine of social change. At the George Family Foundation, we strive to be the “wind beneath the wings” of those who are boldly leading the organizations and programs that are making a difference by working for greater health and well-being for all people.
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GIH NEWS

GIH Announces 2018 Winners of the Terrance Keenan and Andy Hyman Awards
GIH is pleased to announce Michael Brown, Vice President, Community Programs of the Seattle Foundation, as the 2018 recipient of the Terrance Keenan Leadership Award, and Elisabeth Arenales, Director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s Health Program, as the 2018 recipient of the Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy. Mr. Brown and Ms. Arenales exemplify the core values of both awards and have made innumerable contributions to the fields of health and health care. The awards will be presented to Mr. Brown and Ms. Arenales at the 2018 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy in Chicago, Illinois. To learn more about the awards and this year’s recipients, click here.
Register for the GIH Annual Conference Today
It’s official! Registration is now open for the 2018 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy, the largest gathering of health funders in the country. The GIH annual conference is your opportunity to connect with your philanthropic peers, as well as the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners on the issues and challenges that matter the most to our field. Leave this year’s conference with the knowledge, connections, and resources to work towards our shared goal of better health through better philanthropy. Click here to learn more about your many opportunities for learning at this year’s conference!

PHILANTHROPY @ WORK

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Grants & Programs
Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH) • The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit, MI) • The Humana Foundation (Louisville, KY) • The Knapp Foundation (Weslaco, TX) • Mat-Su Health Foundation (Wasilla, AK)
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Transitions
Temi F. Bennett, Esq. (Consumer Health Foundation) • Mark Carter (Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky) • Meredith Mathews and Erika Wooten (Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina) • Carol L. Sale (Williamsburg Health Foundation)
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Requests for Proposals
Con Alma Health Foundation (Santa Fe, NM) • New York State Health Foundation (New York, NY)
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Reports
Maine Health Access Foundation (Augusta, ME)
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Awards
Desiré Shepler (Mat-Su Foundation)
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