When considering how to improve health outcomes for low-income individuals, most people think about providing access to good medical care and keeping the cost of that care as low as possible. What people rarely think about is the connection between good health and quality affordable housing. This edition of What Funders Need to Know explores these connections and highlights some promising practices by both government and business that help low-income individuals get housed, stay healthier, and lower overall costs.
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The attendees of this webinar heard from Erin Casey, Executive Director of Pennsylvania Voice and Keely Monroe, Democracy Program Manager at Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation
Prepared notes from the session and links to additional resources from 12/17/18 meeting.
Program Resources: GWP Annual Meeting: Ask, Listen, Act on December 7th, 2020
Program Resources: Jewish Funders Learning Network on 1/19/2022
The nation’s opioid crisis did not result overnight. A “perfect storm” has been brewing and sweeping our nation for decades and Pennsylvania is being hit hard.
Program resources- Crisis and Collaboration Reimagining the Future of Arts Funding 11/19/20
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved $1.08M in new grants including initiatives to advance the understanding of women’s cardiovascular health in pregnancy and improve outcomes; establish
This guide was developed by a joint working group of the Council on Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. It identifies eight principles of good disaster grantmaking and offers a number of tips to help grantmakers address disasters more effectively, including facts and figures about recent major disasters around the world and a list of useful disaster information websites.
The Philanthropy Forum at GSPIA, GWP, The Forbes Funds and Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership (GPNP) are collaborating to present a series of programs focused on investing for greater impact.
Resources from GWP FBI Session: What Funders Need to Know about Cyber Security on 2/13/2020
Funder Update: The State of Addiction and Opioids in Allegheny County 09-17-2020
GWP Program resources: Family Philanthropy and Donor-Advised Funds 06/02/2021
Speaker Tony Macklin
Program Resources: Tech Sparks Session #1: Don't Let Cybercrime Ruin Your Year on 3/18/22
Seminal work on community foundations, published in 2005.
Resources from Corporate Learning Network Virtual Roundtable 05/28/2020.