A Postcard from California: Cal Wellness Foundation President on the ACA and...
A few short months after I took the helm as The California Wellness Foundation’s president and CEO, the results of our eighth annual Cal Wellness/Field Health Policy Survey were released. I dug into...
View ArticleFunding Social and Economic Interventions to Improve Health: Health Legacy...
Nearly $1 billion in grant funding is awarded each year by health legacy foundations (which some call “conversion foundations”). These foundations are formed with proceeds from mergers and acquisitions...
View ArticlePeople Post: Foundation Staff Member News
Ginny Ehrlich joined the staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in July 2014 as director and senior program officer of its Childhood Obesity team. Most recently, she was founding CEO of the...
View ArticleNew in the Journal: A System of Care for Children in Underserved Atlanta...
The GrantWatch section of Health Affairs’ December 2014 thematic issue on children’s health contains “Healthy Beginnings: A System of Care for Children in Atlanta,” by Ryan Chao of the Annie E. Casey...
View ArticleMissouri Foundation for Health and Others Support Ferguson Commission
A group of six funders in the St. Louis, Missouri, area have together pledged a total of $150,000 for the recently established Ferguson Commission, according to a December 22 press release from...
View ArticleDavid Colby of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Retiring This Week
David C. Colby, long-time staffer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is retiring at the end of 2014, according to an e-mail he sent out to colleagues. He reminisced about what he had been...
View ArticleGrantWatch Blog Most-Read List for 2014: Post on the Importance of Zip Code...
Happy New Year! We have compiled a list of the ten most-read posts on GrantWatch Blog during 2014, in case you missed any of them. “Zip Code Overrides DNA Code When It Comes to a Healthy Community”...
View ArticleWhat Funders Can Do to Advance Payment Reform
The movement to transform how we pay health care providers has taken a dramatic turn in the past several years as more and more purchasers, providers, and other stakeholders seek financial incentives...
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Health System Lessons from Grantmakers In Health’s Trip to Cuba
This post is adapted from an article originally published in the February 16 issue of GIH (Grantmakers In Health’s) Bulletin. This January, some members of Grantmakers In Health’s (GIH’s) board and...
View ArticleThe Gates Foundation Makes a “Big Bet for the Future” of Health and...
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, who cochair the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sent out a novel Annual Letter for 2015 that lays out an optimistic scenario for significant and rapid improvements in...
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