Foundation Center Focuses on Funding for Health in May
New York, NY — April 14, 2006. Reprising its popular Funding for Health Month, throughout May the Foundation Center will offer free educational programs, new reports on regional funding trends, and online resources designed to help nonprofit organizations in the health field in their quest for information, advice, and support. “Much has happened since our last Funding for Health Month,” said Judith Margolin, vice president for planning and evaluation at the Foundation Center, citing challenges resulting from complex changes to the nation’s Medicare drug program and Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. “Turning our attention to health funding-related concerns compels us now more than ever. Hence, many of our programs and special events in May will focus on serious health issues faced by our nation's most vulnerable populations and what funders are doing about them.”
Special programs in the Center’s five regional centers will address such topics as sustaining community-based health organizations, immigrant health and well-being, health concerns of aging populations, and healthcare workforce shortages. New reports on health grantmaking in Georgia, Ohio, and California will be available in the Gain
Knowledge area of the Center’s web site.
Also at the web site, a new Opinion
and Commentary feature of Philanthropy News Digest will provide a forum for the sharing of ideas and solutions by thought leaders in the philanthropic sector, including representatives of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others.
The Focus on Health Funding page at the Center’s web site provides a quick guide to the full lineup of events and array of online resources planned for the entire month of May.
Foundation Center Locations
Details on local events, classes and other programs, and web features are accessible from individual regional web sites:
About the Foundation Center
Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants—a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. More than 37,000 people visit its web site each day, and thousands more are served in its five regional library/learning centers and its national network of nearly 250 Cooperating Collections. For more information, please visit foundationcenter.org or call 212-620-4230.
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