February 01, 2024 This Foundation Is Highlighting the Link Between Opioids and Maternal and Infant Health Risks February 01, 2024/ Connie Matthiessen The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) is supporting work to remove barriers to recovery and healthcare for pregnant women and new mothers with substance use disorder.Read More
January 30, 2024 Eight Questions for Ryan Easterly of WITH Foundation and the Disability & Philanthropy Forum January 30, 2024/ Michelle Dominguez In this in-depth conversation, Ryan Easterly discusses his foundation’s work backing healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities, and his efforts to expand overall philanthropic support for disability rights. Read More
January 22, 2024 A Health Foundation’s “More Equitable Approach” to Substance Use Disorder January 22, 2024/ Connie Matthiessen The Elevance Health Foundation is tackling substance use by focusing in on overlooked populations. It’s one of a relatively small number of philanthropies addressing the escalating opioid crisis in any significant way.Read More
January 03, 2024 MacKenzie Scott Backs Community Health Centers as Another Path to Advancing Equity January 03, 2024/ Connie Matthiessen In 2023, MacKenzie Scott once again stood out in the philanthrosphere with hundreds of large, unrestricted gifts. This time, health equity was a theme with major support for small centers that serve many low-income patients. Read More
January 03, 2024 Can an Online Dating App’s Giving Combat Social Isolation? January 03, 2024/ Wendy Paris Loneliness has become a serious public health threat in the United States, but there’s scant funding for the topic, and the focus is usually on older Americans. A surprising corporate funder is taking on the cause.Read More
January 02, 2024 A Conversation with Susan Mims, President and CEO of the Dogwood Health Trust January 02, 2024/ Mike Scutari The trust takes an intentionally systems-based, social-determinants-focused approach to improving health. We get Mims’ take on state of public health, challenges in the field and more.Read More
December 12, 2023 The Biggest XPRIZE Yet Seeks Therapies that Roll Back the Depredations of Aging December 12, 2023/ Paul Karon XPRIZE Foundation, the organization known for multimillion-dollar competitions to solve global problems, has announced its biggest purse ever — $101 million to develop therapies that keep us healthier, longer.Read More
December 06, 2023 Six Questions for Molly Talbot-Metz, President and CEO of the Mary Black Foundation December 06, 2023/ Mike Scutari This legacy health funder in South Carolina received $8 million from MacKenzie Scott and will channel funds toward behavioral health. The foundation’s leader tells us about that decision and more.Read More
December 01, 2023 A Quiet Exodus: Funders Exit HIV Giving Even as Equity Gaps Grow December 01, 2023/ Athena Cross, Carl Baloney, and Jesse Milan Jr., Guest Contributors For World AIDS Day, guest authors Athena Cross, Carl Baloney and Jesse Milan Jr. call attention to diminishing HIV-related philanthropic support, despite prevailing racial equity gaps in diagnoses and treatment.Read More
November 16, 2023 Four Ways Aging-Focused Funders Are Taking Multisector Collaboration National November 16, 2023/ Wendy Paris As the nation gets older, philanthropic funders are backing a growing array of efforts across sectors to make places and policy more age friendly. Here are several promising developments to note.Read More
November 09, 2023 Military Experience Is Less Common Today, But These Funders Are Staying True to Veterans November 09, 2023/ Liz Longley Philanthropy for veterans often stems from personal or family experience, making a decline in the percentage of Americans who’ve served a cause for concern. But these veterans-focused funders bucked that trend in 2023.Read More
November 02, 2023 Seven Questions for Richard Tate, New President and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation November 02, 2023/ Michelle Dominguez Richard Tate assumed the top role at the Golden State public health funder in September. We connected with him to learn about his personal journey, what’s on the horizon at Cal Wellness, and his hopes for philanthropy.Read More
November 01, 2023 Building Bridges: How One Aging-Focused Funder Learned from its Peers November 01, 2023/ Wendy Paris In a twist on the site visit, spending time with another foundation’s grantee helped St. David’s Foundation in Texas build its own intergenerational portfolio. Here’s how the program took shape and what it’s backing. Read More
October 30, 2023 "The Solutions Are There." Funding Challenge Backs Community-Led Efforts to Save Mothers and Infants October 30, 2023/ Connie Matthiessen The winners of the Maternal & Infant Health Award, organized by Lever for Change and several funding partners, are working in high-need communities to save the lives of mothers and infants.Read More
October 24, 2023 How Three Funders Are Linking Up Public Health and Community Leaders to Tackle Inequities October 24, 2023/ Connie Matthiessen The Kresge, de Beaumont and Robert Wood Johnson foundations teamed up on an initiative to strengthen our ailing public health system and address inequities by connecting public health leaders and community groups.Read More
October 19, 2023 Three Ways the Gates Foundation is Supporting the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals October 19, 2023/ Liz Longley The Sustainable Development Goals are closely tied to some of the Gates Foundation’s core priorities, including maternal health. Here are three moves the foundation has made recently to help get stalled progress back on track.Read More
September 28, 2023 The Opioid Crisis Demands More Innovative Solutions. Funders Will Take Note September 28, 2023/ Scott Strode and Evan Feinberg, Guest Contributors Guest authors Scott Strode and Evan Feinberg take the nonprofit sector to task for failing to slow down the opioid crisis. They argue that philanthropic interest is there, and that if more effective programs are built, funders will come.Read More
September 12, 2023 In an Age-Segregated Society, New Support for Cogenerational Leaders September 12, 2023/ Wendy Paris In an aging America where people of different ages often lack opportunities to interact, there’s lots of pent-up demand for cross-generational engagement. This philanthropic initiative seeks to deliver on that.Read More
September 11, 2023 Hands-On Help: The Other Side of MacKenzie Scott’s Recent Early Childhood Ramp-Up September 11, 2023/ Connie Matthiessen In her early childhood giving this year, MacKenzie Scott is pairing advocacy with direct service funding, including support for programs that provide one-on-one, in-home maternal and infant healthcare.Read More
August 31, 2023 As the Opioid Crisis Rips Across America, Where Is Philanthropy? August 31, 2023/ Connie Matthiessen Some of the country’s largest health philanthropies have shifted their focus away, and only a handful of others have stepped up. Why isn’t philanthropy doing more about this national health emergency?Read More