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  • The Hospitals Investing in the Arts to Improve Patients’ Health and Well-Being

    Reasons to Be Cheerful Apr 1, 2026

    When Jamie Schuler teaches her Friday dance classes, some of her students stay seated. They follow her movements, some using just their upper or lower limbs, others syncing their hands…

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    Funding Advocacy to Improve Children’s Health and Well-being

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 23, 2026

    The day after the Affordable Care Act was signed, I was at a forum with many of the nation’s leading children’s health experts, discussing funding advocacy for children’s health. The…

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    Facilitating Collaboration for Gun Violence Prevention Between a Health Foundation and a National Funder Collaborative

    Grantmakers In Health Mar 16, 2026

    Discussions about firearms in the US are often focused on urban gun violence and mass shootings. But firearm injury and death is a public health crisis that touches every community—urban…

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    Medical Philanthropy: Exploring Funding Cuts, Gaps, and Solutions

    Alliance Magazine Mar 16, 2026

    Medical philanthropy likes to debate money. How much is needed, how it’s distributed, and where it’s going. What the sector is less comfortable doing, is understanding how resilient that funding…

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    18 States Impose Limits on HIV Drug Assistance Programs

    Stateline Mar 13, 2026

    Thousands of low-income people living with HIV could be losing drug coverage as states impose limitations on HIV assistance programs amid constrained budgets — raising alarms over consistent access to…

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  • Housing Security as Health and Community Care

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 11, 2026

    The greatest form of love is healthy, safe, and thriving communities, achieved first through housing security. The best way to ensure that is to secure adequate, safe, and affordable housing…

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  • Transformative Gift Supports Advancing Climate and Health Research Across the US

    Michigan Medicine Mar 4, 2026

    Behind the Sandy-Hassmiller Climate & Health Initiative are Lewis G. Sandy, M.D. (1982) and Susan Hassmiller, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, whose decades of experience in leadership and public health inspired their investment…

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    Supporting Future Health Professionals

    Grantmakers In Health Feb 25, 2026

    Protecting access to high-quality health care is central to health philanthropy, and that depends on a well-prepared, robust health workforce. For decades, grantmakers have supported health workforce pipelines across health…

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  • Putting Farms at the Center of Neighborhoods

    Reasons to Be Cheerful Feb 24, 2026

    Picture the bucolic little town of a fairy tale. At its core stand medieval buildings, a square where folks hawk their goods and perhaps a well to provide water. Beyond…

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    Building Trust with Rural Communities to Combat the Drug Crisis

    The Daily Yonder Feb 23, 2026

    “Don Julio.” “AT&T.” “Ruby Tuesday.” “Call of Duty.” These are among the stamps on small bags of street drugs that Dalton Barrett has recently gathered, demonstrating the importance of building…

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    Mounting Health Insurance Cost Burdens: Analysis Finds Many Families Spend a Tenth or More of Total Income on Health Insurance

    Stateline Feb 16, 2026

    More than half of working-age adults get their health insurance through an employer, but in many states premium contributions and deductibles take a significant bite out of household incomes. A new…

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    Weakened Air Pollution Regulations Disproportionately Harm Black Women’s Health

    The 19th Feb 12, 2026

    Rhonda Anderson has spent nearly three decades fighting for clean air and water in Detroit. As an environmental justice organizer with the Sierra Club, she led campaigns to raise awareness…

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