Report Calls for More Health Funding for Marginalized Communities, Systemic Reform
Philanthropy News Digest
April 6, 2011
Less than one-third of a representative sample of grantmakers that support health-related issues in the United States have made the needs of underserved communities a top priority, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy finds.
According to the report, Towards Transformative Change in Health Care: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy (52 pages, PDF), 31 percent of the 880 foundations in the sample devoted at least half their health grant dollars to marginalized communities, including the economically disadvantaged, women and girls, the LGBTQ community, people with HIV/AIDS, people with disabilities, the elderly, immigrants and refugees, crime or abuse victims, and offenders and ex-offenders, while only 4 percent designated at least a quarter of their health grant dollars for systemic change and social justice efforts.
