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		<title>Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Medicare, Environmental Health, Patient-Centered Care, and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 02:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee-Lee Prina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some recent foundation blog posts that caught my eye. The subjects are varied, so there is something for everybody to read! Environmental Health; Disaster Planning On April 29 Lauren Linville, a communications associate with the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), wrote on its Giving Insight blog about lessons learned during Hurricane Sandy. In “Six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicole Lurie speech on emergency preparedness; health reform session: 2013 GIH meeting tidbits</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/05/08/nicole-lurie-speech-on-emergency-preparedness-health-reform-session-2013-gih-meeting-tidbits/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nicole-lurie-speech-on-emergency-preparedness-health-reform-session-2013-gih-meeting-tidbits</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee-Lee Prina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I covered the Grantmakers In Health annual meeting in San Francisco in March. This meeting is always a wonderful occasion for me to meet or reacquaint myself with foundation staffers from around the United States. In this round-up post, I mention some interesting points made by various speakers at the event, which had some 550 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Many Adults in One State Think Voters Should Decide Whether Marijuana for Medical Use Is Legalized</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/05/04/poll-many-adults-in-one-state-think-voters-should-decide-whether-marijuana-for-medical-use-is-legalized-2/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poll-many-adults-in-one-state-think-voters-should-decide-whether-marijuana-for-medical-use-is-legalized-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 01:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: Additional coauthors of this blog post are Jennifer Chubinski, director of community research, and Ann Barnum, senior program officer, substance use disorders, at The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati. In the United States, eighteen states and Washington, D.C., have passed laws to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Six states have defeated legislation to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates Foundation and Partners Launch New Strategy for Eradicating Polio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Saunders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author is a senior editor at Health Affairs who focuses on global health. The April 2013 GrantWatch column noted the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation’s announcement of the eradication of polio as one of its priorities. Subsequently, the foundation launched the Global Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan (2013–2018), together with other partners, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation Initiative Uses Expanded View of Health: Including Its Social and Environmental Determinants</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/04/23/foundation-initiative-uses-expanded-view-of-health-including-its-social-and-environmental-determinants/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foundation-initiative-uses-expanded-view-of-health-including-its-social-and-environmental-determinants</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Link</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post, with the orginal title of  &#8220;Expanding the Way We Look at Health,&#8221; was first published on the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) blog, Giving InSight, on April 1. (That post includes pictures, which are not shown here.) The author is executive director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation, which exclusively dedicates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skillful Convening: A Powerful Tool for Health System Redesign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Landy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author is president and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, a national health philanthropy located in Morristown, New Jersey. In 2007 the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation set out to understand why changes that we know need to take place in the health system don’t regularly happen and what can be done to remedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On National Healthcare Decisions Day: Foundation Reflections on Efforts to Promote End-Of-Life Planning</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/04/16/on-national-healthcare-decisions-day-foundation-reflections-on-efforts-to-promote-end-of-life-planning/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-national-healthcare-decisions-day-foundation-reflections-on-efforts-to-promote-end-of-life-planning</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate O'Malley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, on National Healthcare Decisions Day, authors Kate O’Malley of the California HealthCare Foundation and Nancy Zweibel of the Retirement Research Foundation, discuss how foundation efforts have contributed to the adoption and expansion of a standard paradigm for end-of-life planning. Many people assume that their family members know the kind of care they would want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Safety-Net Clinics Strive to Share the Care</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/04/09/san-francisco-safety-net-clinics-strive-to-share-the-care/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=san-francisco-safety-net-clinics-strive-to-share-the-care</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Ingram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GrantWatch Blog invited Matthew Ingram of the Metta Fund, a health foundation that awards grants in San Francisco, to talk about a new program it is funding. Most of us can remember a coach who affected us profoundly at some point in our lives, and to whom we owe the credit for making suggestions that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The L3C: What Is It and Should Health Grantmakers Care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hope Leman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone in the nonprofit world is all too aware of the fact that start-up funding for worthwhile projects is often hard to obtain from hard-pressed grantors. And even if nonprofits or social enterprises that are just getting off the ground (or innovative projects at established entities) do manage to get funded, there is the perennial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Post: News of Staff and Board Changes at Foundations</title>
		<link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2013/04/01/people-post-news-of-staff-and-board-changes-at-foundations/?cat=grantwatch&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=people-post-news-of-staff-and-board-changes-at-foundations</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee-Lee Prina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for a “people post” to bring you news of comings and goings in health philanthropy. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Walmart Foundation, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Read about one of the Walmart Foundation&#8217;s focus areas: Hunger and Healthy [...]]]></description>
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