Health Affairs

Read news about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, and Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. See descriptions of two policy jobs at health foundations. These tidbits recently came across my desk. •The Greenwall Foundation’s website notes that effective January 1, 2012, its grant making “will focus solely on building and enriching the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program... Read the rest of this entry »

Below we list the three most-read GrantWatch Blog posts during the month of September. (GrantWatch Blog launched in March 2010.) If you missed the original posts, here’s a second chance. “Stem Cell Research: How Foundations Have Weighed In” by our regular GrantWatch blogger, Lee-Lee Prina. (Posted Sept. 15.) “Recent Foundation Funding in Global Health: Helping... Read the rest of this entry »

A bill was introduced this week in the U.S. Senate to legalize the federal government’s funding of embryonic stem cell research. If passed, according to news reports, the legislation would codify President Obama’s 2009 executive order advancing such research. The Ellison Medical Foundation funded a recent report and updated guidelines about this research. Other foundations... Read the rest of this entry »

In today’s post I have pulled together a few items showing some foundation efforts in two areas: bioethics and environmental health. Bioethics The Arizona Bioethics Network is being relaunched. Saint Luke’s Health Initiatives (SLHI), a public foundation in Phoenix, is providing core funding. The network is “being reconfigured as a community of practice focused on ethical... Read the rest of this entry »