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Letter from the President, Views from the Field, Grantmaker Focus, and more…
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November / December 2020
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GIH is continuing to organize several post-election calls for health funders, as we have done in previous years. Join us on November 30 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern for Post-Election Discussion: Moving Forward on Health Care to gain key insights into the prospects for increasing health care access, advancing health equity, and improving the delivery system. In addition, check out these resources from our Philanthropy Support Partners:
- Funders' Committee for Civic Participation is launching an event series that will provide space for funders and practitioners to reflect together for real shared impact. The first event, The Future of Civic Power, was held on November 16. Stay tuned for more information.
- Funders Concerned About AIDS is offering two post-election webinars. On November 16, 2020 Post Election Analysis focused on HIV and global health. On December 9, Global Gag Rule and Global Health Contracts will support funders to understand what different election outcomes could mean for the Global Gag rule and related U.S. policies impacting sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- As part of its Racial Equity Learning Series, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative is partnering with Alliance for Early Success on After the Election: Antiracist Policy and Advocating for America’s Children on November 18.
- On November 18, Neighborhood Funders Group is hosting Pivoting Forward, a post-election deep dive on what happened in rural and small-city America.
- Economic Opportunity Funders is hosting a Post-Election Virtual Funder Learning Series, which will feature three funder discussions from December 2020 - January 2021:
- Who Voted and Why and Implications for Social and Economic Policy
- A National Reckoning on Race
- No Going Back — Building for a Better Future
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Weaving DEI Into a Foundation’s Everyday Work
Jehan Benton-Clark, Senior Director of Advancing Equity and Justice, The Colorado Health Foundation
Taryn Fort, Senior Director of Communications and Influence, The Colorado Health Foundation
Kelci Price, Senior Director of Learning and Evaluation, The Colorado Health Foundation
At The Colorado Health Foundation, we are relentlessly committed to advancing health equity and believe it exists when there are no avoidable, unfair or systemically-caused differences in health status. To live into this, we have implemented principles of diversity, equity and inclusion into our vision and cornerstones, and our daily operations. While we are not experts, we can offer a glimpse of what some of this experimentation looks like in practice in our grantmaking, evaluation, and communications functions.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Maximizing Impact in a Limited Time: Time-Limited Programs and Foundations
Amy Henderson, Chief of Staff, ClearWay Minnesota
Kathleen Holmes, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Missouri Foundation for Health
David Willoughby, Chief Executive Officer, ClearWay Minnesota
Some foundations institute time-limited initiatives to maximize resources. Others adopt a spend-down approach to have impact within a short organizational lifespan. Both situations provide opportunity for a health-focused foundation to accomplish goals with urgency, but pose the challenge of doing so without the luxury of time. ClearWay Minnesota and Missouri Foundation for Health have embraced strategic and tactical advantages of being life-limited and having time-limited programs, respectively, to address persistent health issues.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Growing Local Philanthropy to Improve Health
Nadine Long, Director of Strategic Learning, Kansas Health Foundation
Ashley Thorne, Program and Evaluation Associate, Kansas Health Foundation
Jeff Usher, Senior Program Officer, Kansas Health Foundation
Deanna Van Hersh, Interim Executive Vice President, Kansas Health Foundation
Community foundations are often in the best position to bring partners together, across sectors and geographies, and to tackle the complex set of issues facing their residents. They represent a network that can serve as a powerful force, including to improve health outcomes. Recognizing this, Kansas Health Foundation launched the Giving Resources to Our World Initiative with the goal of strengthening local philanthropy in communities across Kansas.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Supporting Clinics to Serve as Community Hubs for Health in Central Texas
Abena Asante, Senior Program Officer, St. David’s Foundation
Amy Einhorn, Senior Program Officer, St. David’s Foundation
In Texas, the lack of access to health care, coupled with inadequate and under-resourced systems, has had a profoundly negative impact on communities of color and underserved areas. COVID-19 has laid bare the severity of these issues even more so. These factors, and our commitment to achieving health equity, have informed the St. David's Foundation’s primary care safety net strategy.
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VIEWS FROM THE FIELD
Philanthropy Uniquely Positioned to Address Innovations in Safety Net Health
Graciela Couchonnal, Vice President of Programs, Health Forward Foundation
Health Forward Foundation is celebrating 15 years of grantmaking. In this time, the foundation has anchored access to safety net health care for those most in need in the Kansas City region. Along the way, we have learned valuable lessons about maximizing our investments through innovations and partnerships to benefit those most in need.
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“Data from across our county tell us that stress, disease, and other repercussions of discrimination take their toll on the health of Black people at an alarming rate. That is why the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg prioritizes race equity as we pursue health equity to improve population health. This necessitates working with our community to challenge the status quo and confront systems that perpetuate inequality and reinforce advantages and disadvantages along racial lines. It is relentless, slow work but necessary to create the lasting change residents deserve. We are and will be community-led by listening deeply for lived experience and solutions from the community.”
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GIH NEWS
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Days Remain to Recognize An Outstanding Grantee or Grantmaker
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GIH is currently accepting nominations for the 2021 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy and 2021 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy. 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 and submission guidelines. All nominations must be received by Friday, December 4. Don't miss this opportunity to recognize a grantee or grantmaker's outstanding work in this critical and challenging year!
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PHILANTHROPY @ WORK
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COVID-19 Grants
Humana Foundation (Atlanta, GA) • Kresge Foundation (Troy, MI) • St. David’s Foundation (Austin, TX)
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Awards
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (Detroit, MI) • The California Endowment (Los Angeles, CA)
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Grants & Programs
Archstone Foundation (Long Beach, CA) • Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, SC) • Blue Shield of California Foundation (Oakland, CA) • California Wellness Foundation (Oakland, CA) • Dogwood Health Trust (Ashville, NC) • Ethel and James Flinn Foundation (Detroit, MI) • The Foundation for a Healthy High Point (High Point, NC) • Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts (Worcester, MA) • The Health Foundation for Western and Central New York (Buffalo, NY) • REACH Foundation (Overland Park, KS)
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Transitions
Howard Brown (Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation) • Jesse Burbank and Tracy Kalytiak (Mat-Su Health Foundation) • John Feather and Lindsay Goldman (Grantmakers in Aging) • Susan Mims, MD, MPH and William Buster (Dogwood Health Trust) • Lauren Smith, MD, MPH (CDC Foundation) • Richard Tate (The California Wellness Foundation) • Marissa Tirona (Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees) • Linda Song Wendel (CARESTAR Foundation)
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