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EngAGEment Initiative A Program in collaboration with Grantmakers in Aging
The Foundation Center recently published an edition of the Philanthropy News Digest (PND) focusing on Health Philanthropy, including an interview with Carol Farquhar, executive director of Grantmakers in Aging. An excerpt of the interview is included below, and the full text can be found at the PND Web site. Also included in this edition of PND were numerous resources for those wishing to find out more about health philanthropy. Thank you to the
Foundation Center for making this information PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST Special Issue: Focus on Health Philanthropy May is Funding for Health Month at the Foundation Center, and in honor of the occasion we've assembled a collection of commentaries from a group of practitioners in the field. We've also included a selection of related readings, links to more than two dozen health-related news items from the past six months, and excerpts from interviews with Carol Farquhar, executive director, Grant- makers in Aging, and Gary Yates, president and CEO, California Wellness Foundation. As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments. To contact us, send an e-mail with "Funding for Health month" in the subject line to pnd@foundationcenter.org. NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: CAROL FARQUHAR PND spoke with Carol Farquhar, executive director of Grantmakers in Aging, about the organization's early days, the aging of the baby boomers and what that is likely to mean for the field, and why funding for aging-related issues remains a tough sell. An excerpt from that interview follows: Philanthropy News Digest: Do your members tend to fund trends they're seeing within the field, or do they look for innovative local efforts and try to grow them? Carol Farquhar: It's a combination of the two. There are some foundations that are on the leading edge of innovation with trials and experiments based on new models. They tend to be the larger, national foundations, and the scope and cost of their program investments -- I'm talking about foundations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Atlantic Philanthropies -- can be intimidating. But we're also seeing some of those models being picked up at the local level by smaller, locally based foundations. When we find a model that can be adopted locally, we emphasize the benefits of working with large national foundations. And with the large national foundations, if they want to implement their program at the local level, we can connect them to foundations that are interested and know the territory. PND: Can you give us an example? CF: A good example of that approach are the two AdvantAGE programs that were funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies. The program was later picked up by the Winter Park Health Foundation in Florida, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation in New York, the Virginia G. Piper Chari- table Trust in Arizona, and several others. Another example is BenefitsCheckUp, which was funded through the National Council on Aging and has just been expanded to a number of different communities; the community picks up the individual cost of the program, but the prototype was funded by a national foundation. Experience Corps is another one; it enlists older adult volunteers and places them in inner-city schools as tutors. It's taken a while for the program to get traction, but it's gaining momentum -- especially in Baltimore -- and the organization hopes to expand it throughout Maryland.... To read the complete interview, visit: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10002693/farquhar
We asked foundation and nonprofit experts in a range of health-related areas to share with our readers what was on their mind. Follow the links below to read their responses. "We Must Finish the Job We Started" Nancy Brinker,
President and Founder, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation "Meeting in the Middle: Creating the Biomedical
Workforce of the Future" Peter J. Bruns, Vice President for Grants and
Special Programs Howard Hughes Medical Institute "Social Workers in Health Care Are Not
Expendable" Elizabeth J. Clark, Executive Director National Association
of Social Workers "My Road to Help Combat HIV/AIDS in Kenya" Dannette
Hill, Pfizer Global Health Fellow Pfizer Inc. "Time To Stop Gambling With America's Health" Risa
Lavizzo-Mourey, President Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Mother's Day Can Be a Day of Mourning in the
World's Poorest Countries" Charles MacCormack, President & Anne Tinker,
Director, Saving Newborn Lives Initiative Save the Children
Earlier this month, PND spoke with Gary Yates, president and CEO of the California Wellness Foundation, about the foundation's grantmaking priorities and initiatives to increase the diversity of the healthcare professions in California. An excerpt from that interview follows: Philanthropy News Digest: What do you see as the greatest health-related issue or issues facing Californians today? Gary Yates: If you're asking me to boil it down to the most salient at this point in time, I would say there are two: The first is preserving the healthcare safety net for underserved Californians, which means, among other things, keeping community clinics and public hospitals not just open but viable. And the second has to do with the diversity of California's healthcare workforce. The future of the State of California will be driven, in many ways, by demographics. And looking ahead to 2020, three things really jump out at you. First, the population of the state, which already has thirty-three million residents, is growing fairly rapidly and will increase by another ten million people by 2020. Two, over that same period, the number of Californians age sixty-five or older will increase by 70 percent. And, three, the state's population will continue to become more diverse. As you probably know, California is one of the few states that does not have an ethnic majority - currently, Caucasians comprise roughly 48 percent of the state's population and Latinos are about a third. According to most projections, however, that will shift in the next fifteen years, with Latinos comprising 43 percent of the state's population by 2020, Caucasians dropping to about 33percent, and Asians comprising about 13 percent. So, changing demographics, the continued aging and increased diversity of the state's population, and adding another ten million people to that population are all major challenges for any health funder, including the California Wellness Foundation. PND: Why is diversity within health-related professions such an important issue? GY: There are several reasons. There's a growing body of evidence that suggests that ethnic minority health practitioners are more likely to practice in underserved and low-income areas. Therefore, one way to increase access to health care for the underserved is to increase the number of ethnic minority physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers. There's also the issue of language and cultural competence. One of every four people in the state is an immigrant. Most are here legally, but many, when they first arrive, do not speak English, or do not speak it very well. So you have a situation where a lot of families have their children acting as interpreters with their parents' healthcare providers, which is not a healthy situation at all.... To read the complete interview, visit: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10002699/yates
A selection of health-related stories from 2006... Gates Foundation Awards $22 Million to University
of North Carolina for Sleeping Sickness Trial (5/24/06) Carter Center to Receive Gates Foundation's 2006
Global Health Award (5/17/06) Dell Foundation Awards $50 Million to University of
Texas (5/17/06) Physician Boards, Societies Launch Pilot Program to
Improve Patient Care (5/13/06) Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Receives $100 Million
Gift (5/11/06) As Premiums Rise, Fewer American Employees Accept
Employer Health Coverage (5/10/06) Public Schools to End Nearly All Soda Sales
(5/04/06) California Endowment Establishes New Resource
Center (4/15/06) With Medical Costs on the Rise, Patients Turn to
Co-Pay Foundations (4/13/06) PATH to Receive $75 Million From Gates Foundation
for Vaccine Development (4/05/06) Child Well-Being Report Shows Mixed Results
(3/30/06) Columbia University to Receive $200 Million for
Neurosciences Center (3/22/06) Senate Finance Committee to Examine Nonprofit
Hospitals (3/21/06) States Report Numerous Problems During Transition
to New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, Study Finds (3/02/06) Kellogg Foundation Selects Twelve Universities for
Initiative to Eliminate Health Disparities (2/21/06) Clinton Foundation, American Heart Association
Launch Effort to Create 'Healthy Schools' (2/14/06) University of Chicago to Receive $25 Million for
Biomedical Center (2/14/06) California Wellness Foundation Launches Campaign to
Diversify Healthcare Workforce (2/04/06) Johns Hopkins Receives $100 Million From New York
Mayor (2/03/06) Baylor Medical School to Receive $100 Million for
Cancer Center (2/02/06) Gates Foundation to Triple Funding for TB
Eradication (1/30/06) University of Chicago to Receive $42 Million for
New Pediatric Center (1/27/06) Piper Trust Announces $50 Million Personalized
Medicine Initiative (1/18/06) Clinton Foundation Brokers Deal for Discount
HIV/AIDS Drugs,Diagnoses (1/16/06) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Establishes
Distinguished Fellow Program (1/14/06) Government, Individuals Should Share Long-Term Care
Costs, Survey Finds (1/05/06) For more health-related news, visit: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/cat_health.jhtml
Bachrach, Deborah. Karen Lipson. Health Coverage for Immigrants in
New York: An Update on Policy Developments and Next Steps (New York
City: Commonwealth Fund) California HealthCare Foundation. Health Care Costs 101 (Oakland,
California: California HealthCare Foundation) Baumgarten, Allan. California Health Care Market Report 2005
(Oakland, California: California Healthcare Foundation) California HealthCare Foundation. Award Programs as a Philanthropic
Strategy: Options, Benefits, and Drawbacks (Oakland, California:
California HealthCare Foundation) California Wellness Foundation. Reflections on Leadership -- The
California Peace Prize (Woodland Hills, California: California Wellness
Foundation) California Wellness Foundation. The California Wellness Foundation
Children and Youth Community Health Initiative: Challenges,
Accomplishments and Lessons Learned (Woodland Hills, California:
California Wellness Foundation) Commonwealth Fund. Biennial Health Insurance Survey (New York:
Commonwealth Fund) Daro, Deborah. Welcome Home and Early Start: An Assessment of
Program Quality and Outcomes (Chicago, Illinois: Chapin Hall Center for
Children) Donor Awareness Council. The State of Organ, Eye & Tissue Donation:
Colorado & Wyoming 2006 (Denver: Donor Awareness Council) Grantmakers in Health. In the Right Words: Addressing Language and
Culture in Providing Health Care (Washington, D.C.: Grantmakers in
Health) Kaiser Family Foundation. Medicare & Medicaid at 40 (New York:
Kaiser Family Foundation) National Committee for Quality Assurance. Best Health Plans of 2005
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. News and World Report) Pryor, Carol, Deborah Gurewich. Getting Care But Paying the Price:
How Medical Debt Leaves Many in Massachusetts Facing Tough Choices
(Boston, MA: The Access Project) Schlesinger, Mark. Urban Institute. Why Nonprofits Matter in
American Medicine: A Policy Brief (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute) United Health Foundation. America's Health: State Health Rankings
(Minnetonka, Minnesota: United Health Foundation) Trust for America's Health. A Killer Flu? (Washington, D.C.: Trust
for America's Health) For more health-related reports, visit the PubHub repository at: http://foundationcenter.org/research/pubhub/
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