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Aligning Health Care & Social Services: Insights for Grantmakers
Webinar

Aligning Health Care and Social Services: Insights for Grantmakers Webinar

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This webinar highlights guiding principles and practical tips applicable to all grantmakers in the public health and social services space. The discussion with experts from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Northeastern University, Health Share of Oregon, and Vinfen (Massachusetts) covers:

  • Challenges that limit collaboration between health care and social services
  • How to adapt grant strategies to better align philanthropic efforts
  • Short and long-term funding approaches that can improve social determinants of health
  • Research findings on how the social services sector is changing and what that means for health care

As health foundations and corporate giving programs fund strategies exploring social determinants of health and equity, grantmakers may consider approaches that fund across sectors to create a culture of health.

Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs