With contributions from Daniel Cohn. Mt. Sinai’s mission is to support organizations throughout Greater Cleveland that improve the health and well-being of the Jewish and general communities. The Foundation focuses on primary prevention and early intervention, especially protecting and improving the health of people from communities that have been historically marginalized. Like many health care…
With contributions from Amy Price. For decades, the Zellerbach Family Foundation (ZFF) has supported many efforts to improve the children’s mental health system. Notwithstanding some important progress, most of the efforts have chipped away at the edges of a fundamentally flawed system that is pathology-based, deeply fragmented, mired in bureaucracy and fails to acknowledge root…
With contributions from Kimberly McPherson & Abena Asante. St. David’s Foundation (SDF) invests in improving the health and well-being of residents in the five-county area around Austin, Texas. SDF has grown significantly during the last decade, enabling it to make larger and more significant investments in the local health infrastructure. During that period, a number…
With contributions from June Glover, Martha Davis, & Alexis Levy. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is working alongside others to build a national Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being. We are working toward this vision by investing in four broad areas of focus:…
With contributions from Phyllis Meadows. The Kresge Foundation’s Health team has centered its work over the past few years on a set of strategic goals to address health inequities and persistent health disparities. Our underlying approaches place communities as the anchors in organizing how partnerships, policy, power and leadership can be enhanced to improve health…
With contributions from Ryan Barker. At the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH), we focus on public health insurance through our Health Policy shop and two of our Strategic Initiatives (Advocacy and Medicaid Expansion). Our work encompasses research, grants, education, and contract work to achieve our goals of protecting, expanding, and enhancing the Medicaid and CHIP…
With contributions from Barbara Leonard, Jake Grindle, & Andrea Francis. Until recently, much of our advocacy funding was focused on a set of organizations working together to expand access to public health insurance programs, including Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace, but after our state’s successful Medicaid expansion and the relative stabilization of the…
With contributions from Katherine Beckmann. At The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Health subprogram strives to protect and advance health insurance coverage in addition to access to quality health care and early nutrition services for young children and families. To achieve these goals, we invest in federal and state advocacy, research and policy analysis,…
Wednesday, July 8 * 2:00-3:00 pm eastern The economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis is projected to deeply impact state budgets for years. This likely means budget cuts. As Medicaid is a large portion of state budgets, it is one area likely to be affected, but how? What will state budget cuts mean for children…
Thursday, March 19 * 2:00 – 2:30 pm Eastern Does Medicaid have an impact on whether poor families can stay in their homes? What about on poverty rates? How has Medicaid expansion affected families experiencing poverty? Learn all of this and more with Naomi Zewde! Naomi is an Assistant Professor of health policy and…