Wednesday, September 15 * 1:30-2:00 pm eastern Kids funders are experts in education, brain development, healthcare, trauma, mental health, and more. The environment hasn’t typically been considered a kids issue. And yet education, brain development, healthcare, trauma, and mental health are all impacted by our changing climate. It’s time for kids funders to grapple with…
Join the Children, Youth & Family Funders Roundtable and ecoAmerica as we discuss the ways climate change is affecting children’s mental health. Climate change is happening now; our children and communities are experiencing warmer weather, more air pollution, and more frequent natural disasters than generations of the past. There are a number of ways that…
Economic Opportunity Funders (EOF) & Asset Funders Network Webinar Tuesday, June 15 * 1:00-2:00 pm eastern Misunderstood, underfunded, and undervalued When you combine the 53 million unpaid caregivers with the nearly 5.7 million people working in the care sector – primarily women of color earning low wages and devoid of benefits and protections – and…
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,…
This blog post from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families examines the ways schools provide critical health and nutrition supports for children and how the stimulus bills are trying to help families access these supports outside of schools. The post examines the stimulus bills’ effects on Medicaid, K-12 funding, students with disabilities, mental health…
GCIR webinar Wednesday, April 15 * 1:00 – 2:30 pm EST Join GCIR to learn from leaders in the immigrant rights movement on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic about how philanthropy must significantly increase grantmaking dollars, shift grantmaking practices, embrace risk, and assert leadership to meet the challenges of this moment. GCIR’s funding recommendations…
With contributions from Lisa Shapiro, Joe Weissfeld, Cheryl Parcham, & Justin Mendoza. One in five Americans and almost half of all children get their healthcare coverage through Medicaid. Public health insurance programs buoy families’ health and economic security, building opportunity for all. It is critical that these programs are strong and that they are as…
With contributions from Elisabeth Burak & Joan Alker What is the untapped potential of Medicaid? CHIP? Medicaid and CHIP are joint federal-state programs that serve more than one in three kids annually. Medicaid is by far the more important program of the two. States administer Medicaid with the federal government setting parameters and paying a…