Sandra Williams started The Black Lens and the Carl Maxey Center because she was tired of serving on everyone else’s committees, work groups, and task forces. Read her reflections on both organizations in this Q&A.Read More »
As a foundation, we are committed to sharing our learnings, including challenges and missteps. Group Health Foundation public policy manager EJ Juárez offers three takeaways from our first time funding census work. When the decennial census was about to launch a year ago, I was just a few months into my role as public policyRead More »
A few days after Nichole Maher started as our CEO, we sat down and began a conversation about how we would approach building relationships with intention. We articulated the values we wanted to live by and the commitments to which we would hold ourselves as we began meeting with leaders from across the state.Read More »
Group Health Foundation was excited to support this exploration by The Giving Practice of the ways foundations are applying diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles to their investment policies and practices.Read More »
As we begin to grow and build relationships with communities across Washington, we wanted to share a little bit about how this work is unfolding. Our commitment to center the lived experience of those most impacted by health inequities means we are making intentional decisions about the places we go and the people we meet.Read More »
Prior to the formation of the Foundation, Group Health Cooperative asked The Giving Practice to contact similar foundations to learn about how those entities were created and key lessons. This report summarizes what we learned with regards to honoring legacy, fostering a learning culture, building trust and relationships before setting strategy, committing to equity, and more.Read More »