APHA Session #3213.1

1. APHA Session #3213.1 • Achieving Collective Public Health Impact: • Building Bridges Between Funders and Community Coalitions

2. Welcome Regina Davis Moss, AED-Health Policy & Practice, APHA Susan Polan, AED-Public Affairs &Advocacy Lyndon Haviland, Strategic Philanthropist

3. Learning Objectives For Community Partners/non profits: • To understand the benefits to having funders at the table early-on in a project planning process. • To learn the processes involved in starting and maintaining collaborations with funders. • To understand how grantmakers can actively take part in local public health community efforts.

4. Learning Objectives For Funder/Donors: • To understand the benefits of involvement in local public health planning endeavors. • To collectively explore ways to partner with public health-focused nonprofits, share work with other foundations, and communicate the need for collaboration to our boards. • To identify methods by which grantmakers can share ideas and best practices that will increase our creativity, leverage our dollars and strengthen the practice of public health.

5. Roundtable 1Starting Strong in Illinois Collaborative Speakers • Clarita Santos, MPH, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois • Janine Lewis, MPH, PhDc, EverThrive Illinois • Margie Schaps, MPH, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group • Nanette Silva, MPH, Community Memorial Foundation • Kuliva Wilburn, MPH, The Chicago Community Trust

6. Roundtable 1Starting Strong in Illinois Collaborative • Program Goals : • To build and sustain a multi-sector coalition, including public health advocates and providers and the region’s health foundations, to address the ACA in Illinois. • To create a statewide roadmap that coordinates policy, advocacy, education and outreach for health care reform implementation in Illinois, with a focus on the most vulnerable populations.  • To facilitate the exchange of useful and strategic information about the ACA between public, private and community-based agencies.

7. Roundtable 2 • A New Funding Model: Improving Public Health through Learning & Change Strategies Speakers • Maureen Doyle-Scharff, PhD (ABD), MBA, CCMEP, Pfizer Inc. • Sally Guttmacher, PhD, MPhil, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

8. Roundtable 2 • A New Funding Model: Improving Public Health through Learning & Change Strategies • Program goals: • Review a new model for public/private funding strategies that leverages individual and organizational relationships • Understand the value of multiple stakeholder engagement in funding decision-making • Highlight the cultural shift represented in public/private partnerships implemented to address mutual interests in solving public health issues

9. Roundtable 3 Diabetes Healthy Outcomes Program: Healthy Outcomes for Uninsured Diabetic Patients at Hamilton Health Center • Speakers • Rhonda BeLue, PhD, Penn State University • Marianne Hillemeier, MPH, PhD, Penn State University • Christina Wilds, DrPH, MPH, CHES, Highmark Foundation

10. Roundtable 3 Diabetes Healthy Outcomes Program: Healthy Outcomes for Uninsured Diabetic Patients at Hamilton Health Center • Program goals: • To establish a strong community partnership/collaboration between the Highmark Foundation and Hamilton Health Center (HHC), a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) that has broad impact. • To improve diabetes outcomes among uninsured diabetics by providing access to a seamless continuum of comprehensive, coordinated health care and supportive services at a FQHC. • To leverage the Highmark Foundation’s funding to demonstrate new and sustainable ways to create a successful and replicable model of diabetes care.

11. Roundtable 4 • A National Funder Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention Speakers • Joshua Horwitz, JD, Fund for a Safer Future • Nina Vinik, JD, Joyce Foundation

12. Roundtable 4 • A National Funder Collaborative for Gun Violence Prevention • Program goals: • To educate public health funders about a new donor collaborative dedicated to reducing gun violence. • To share information about current efforts underway focused on public policy approaches to reducing gun violence. • To highlight a successful model for reducing gun violence through research, coalition development and policy advocacy.

13. Roundtable 5 • Bringing Voice to Communities through Convening Speakers • Brian Castrucci, MA, de Beaumont Foundation • Katie Sellers, DrPH, CPH, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

14. Roundtable 5 • Bringing Voice to Communities through Convening • Program Goal’s: • Identify the role of convening as a way to give voice to issues • Understand broader definitions of community than geographic definitions • Describe how results from community convenings can be positioned to drive policy and program change

15. Thank you! This was the first of what we hope will be many opportunities to network and share best practices. What’s Next? • Please complete and leave evaluations • Exchange business cards and/or sign in at tables • Reply to information requests emailed by APHA • Your feedback and ongoing interest and support will be vital to future efforts.

16. Any questions? Torrey Wasserman, Development Manager APHA 202.777.2486 Torrey.Wasserman@apha.org Claudia Baier, Senior Program Officer VNA Foundation 312.214.1521 Claudia@vnafoundation.net