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Challenging the Policy of Disdain for Chronically Homeless People


February 24th, 2012
by Paul Gionfriddo

Foundations should provide leadership in programming and advocacy for this population. In the early 1990s, there was a movie entitled Dave. Kevin Kline stars in it as the head of an employment agency who happens to look exactly like the president of the United States. When the president has an incapacitating stroke as he cheats... Read the rest of this entry »

Foundations Can Drive Investments in Public Health Infrastructure


September 13th, 2011
by Paul Gionfriddo

This blogger, a former president of a foundation, writes that the value of public health infrastructure is sometimes forgotten. Investing in our public health infrastructure saves lives. That’s the bottom-line message of a recent Health Affairs article entitled Evidence Links Increases in Public Health Spending to Declines in Preventable Deaths. Its authors lay out the... Read the rest of this entry »

Fighting Mental Illness: A Call to Action for Foundations


April 27th, 2011
by Paul Gionfriddo

Next week, Mental Health Month begins. Paul Gionfriddo, who has his own blog, “Our Health Policy Matters,” wrote this post. He is the former president of a foundation in South Florida. The United States has the highest rate of mental illness in the world. According to Mental Health America, one in four Americans has a... Read the rest of this entry »

Opportunity Knocking: Under Health Reform, Foundations Can Help Increase Access to Care


December 13th, 2010
by Paul Gionfriddo

More than 30 million uninsured people will acquire either public or private insurance over the next five years as a result of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. What does this mean for foundations promoting healthier communities by investing in increased access to health care? In short, it means new opportunities, especially for foundations that... Read the rest of this entry »

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