Resources

This Issue Dialogue, developed by Grantmakers in Health, focuses on the unique health, social and policy issues that affect immigrant populations; attitudes toward immigration and how this influences support for social programs and the provision of public benefits; activities to improve health care access and coverage for immigrants and their families, and implications for health philanthropy.

Report of a study conducted for the Ford Foundation, Migrant and Refugee Rights Portfolio

This article by Kathy Fennelly, PhD, appeared in the 2005 Healthy Generations Newsletter.

Information from The Minneapolis Foundation

“The recent flurry of studies documenting the presence of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health have outpaced articles that describe effective strategies to eliminate disparities. Through literature review and informal interviews with research, policy, and program experts, we developed a framework of programs that address disparities through targeting clinicians, patients and communities, and health systems.” (Horowitz, Davis, Palermo and Vladeck,Health Care Financing Review, Volume 21. Number 4, Summer 2000)

This paper examined the original question of the Minnesota Community Project — did there used to be a political consensus around public investment in Minnesota and was it a partisan one? It explores the political history of a state that has been dubbed “Most Livable” for seven years in a row by the Morgan Quitno Group.

GCIR provides grantmakers with opportunities for learning, networking, and collaboration, as well as information resources.