Connecticut Grantmakers Funding Health Affinity Group

Grantmakers connecting on topics pertaining to health and well-being, exchanging information and networking. The meetings offer participants representing a broad contingent of grantmaking organizations an opportunity to learn about diverse issues, inform individual grantmaking, and build on each other’s experience. Discussion topics range from health access and reform, to data management, the impact of state and federal policies, vulnerable populations and public awareness.

Chair: Pat Baker, Connecticut Health Foundation
Committee:  Judith Meyers, Children’ s Fund of Connecticut
Frances Padilla, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
Lynne Garner, Donaghue Foundation
Nancy Heaton, The Foundation for Community Health

The following is a partial list of the discussions the group has held:

  • A survey to determine a baseline for the health of the State                      
  • A partnership that would involve Medicaid and a university          
  • Overviews of conference presentations
  • Changes to the State-Administered General Assistance (SAGA) population into the Medicaid program         
  • The Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership
  • Health reform and the Sustinet program
  • State efforts in health care
  • Health issues in Early Childhood Education
  • Pressing health issues in the state which are impacting all funders

To join the Connecticut Grantmakers Funding Health affinity group or for more information contact  Deb Werner.

Materials are available for Council members. Please login with your user name and password to access the resources.

Materials

  • Aetna Foundation Leads Coalition of Funders to Launch Study of Health Care Quality in Connecticut
    November 8, 2011 (HARTFORD, CT) An upcoming survey of Connecticut residents developed by an unusual collaboration of five state-based foundations focused on health issues: the Aetna Foundation; the Connecticut Health Foundation; the Donaghue Foundation; the Foundation for Community Health; and the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, will examine patient views of health care at the state and county levels.

Links

  • Providing Healthcare In Rural Communities - NPR Where We Live
    January 7, 2013 (SHARON, CT) Looking at our healthcare system via rural communities, WNPR's John Dankowsky talks with Council member Nancy Heaton, Executive Director of the Foundation for Community Health and others.
  • What Happens When Philanthropy Works Together? - CT Health Blog
    November 8, 2011 (HARTFORD, CT) A Health funders group with members, The Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health), the Aetna Foundation, the Donaghue Foundation, Foundation for Community Health, and the Universal Health Care Foundation, have rallied around conducting a survey that will lead to good, solid data on the performance of health and health care systems in Connecticut. The funders group is facilitated by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.