Sexy, No. Important, Yes: Grant Money for Comprehensive Medication Management
/Here's a pot of money that aims to improve medicine and health care outcomes by developing new and better ways to manage patients' medications.
Read MoreWant Healthy Food? Grow It Yourself—With Help From the Aetna Foundation
/Recently, Aetna has announced that its Local Roots program will support the creation and expansion of community gardens, urban farms, and farmers’ markets in urban, disadvantaged communities.
Read MoreThe Other Big Foundation With an Ambitious Plan for Better Health
/RWJF is not the only foundation that's declared war on a toxic U.S. lifestyle and wasteful healthcare system. Kresge also wants to change how Americans live and how a $3 trillion health system operates.
Read MoreAnother Growing Hot Spot for Impact Investing: Healthier Food
/Impact investing is really gaining steam. The push to improve food choices, and health, is also a red hot trend. More and more, these two movements are coming together. Like in this recent loan to L.A. Kitchen.
Read MoreThe Kansas Health Foundation Favors Roots-Up Approach to Community Health
/With growing resources and clout, state healthcare foundations deserve more attention. A case in point: the Kansas Healthcare Foundation, now the biggest philanthropic entity in that whole state.
Read MoreRWJF Establishes Three More State Coalitions to Help Nurses Drive Change
/The thinking here is that, through education and support, nurses can emerge as leaders at the community level to push strategies to improve the health of the population.
Read MoreWhy Peer Health Exchange Connects With Funders
/Beyond a compelling model, PHE has local presence in cities with many active funders, and connecting up with those funders has been key to its growth. We take a quick look at the money trail.
Read MoreNext Up for the Divestment Crowd: Junk Food Stocks?
/While fossil fuel stocks have been in the crosshairs of divestment advocates for a while now, junk food stocks are a more recent target. Just look at the Gates Foundation's big sell-off recently.
Read MoreBuilding on BUILD: de Beaumont Foundation Commits to Practical Playbook
/BUILD Health is one of those ambitious funder collaboratives that aims to get people out of their silos and make vital connections-- now, the de Beaumont Foundation is taking it even further.
Read MoreKnowledge Is Power: Here's One Way RWJF Wants to Empower Healthcare Consumers
/You wouldn’t think of checking out a new restaurant without first checking its Yelp review, would you? So, wouldn’t it be nice if you could read reviews of your local healthcare services before trying them out?
Read MoreWhy This Giant Foundation Thinks Dental Care Is So Important
/Oral hygiene and dental care are not exactly top issues in the foundation world, and in fact we've never run a story before on this niche. But the Kellogg Foundation has made this a priority. Here's why.
Read MoreWhat This New Funder Collaborative Says About the State of Public Health in the U.S.
/Inner cities are food deserts, chronic diseases rates keep going up, and meanwhile public health workers are relying on stale data. Can $7.5 million make a dent in these problems?
Read MoreRWJF's Podcasts Are Another Way This Funder is Wrestling With Ideas
/RWJF is very focused these days on attracting innovators as it works to build a culture of health, and one way it's doing that is by hosting podcast conversations that explore ideas.
Read MoreIt's Dr. Nurse, to You: RWJF's Plan to Empower Brainiac Nurses to Fight for a Culture of Health
/The foundation's push to help more nurses get doctorates is part of a broader strategy of advancing a culture of health by creating a new cadre of sophisticated leaders in the healthcare field.
Read MoreJust SNAP for Fresh Produce: Kresge Keeps Up Its Fight Against Food Deserts
/Funders like Kresge are keeping up the push to bring better food choices to underserved communities, and the strategies are getting more sophisticated, including leveraging food stamp money.
Read MoreThe Health Nut Billionaire Who's Giving Big to Better Understand the Food We Eat
/We're seeing more grantmaking to explore the foggy intersections where health meets nutrition, exercise, and even meditation. But David Murdock's latest gift to research food is the biggest we've seen yet.
Read MoreBehind That $40 Million Corporate Gift for Sustainable Agriculture, Food, and Health
/Mars, Inc. will pump the money into UC Davis to back innovative work on food and health. Should we be nervous when Big Food has a big footprint in academic research settings? The answer is that it depends.
Read MoreEveryone and Their Mom Gives to Feeding America. Here’s Why.
/Widespread hunger in the United States, with all its wealth, stands out as notably obscene, and it's hard to imagine that there's isn't a ready fix for this public health problem. All of which helps explain why Feeding America is the fourth-largest charity in the country.
Read MoreWhat Makes New Profit Open Its Checkbook for Health Organizations?
/New Profit loves scrappy startups with smart and creative young founders, but this grantmaker also invests in more established outfits. What kinds of organizations are they supporting in public health space?
Read MorePhilanthropy, TED-Style: How RWJF is Looking for More Intellectual Juice
/Kicking around big ideas is important for any organization looking to solve major problems, since you never know where breakthrough thinking will come from. America's top healthcare funder is one place opening its mind.
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