Public Health Funder Network

2012
PHFN founded by APHA members based in Chicago

2013
PHFN session at the Annual Meeting in Boston: Achieving collective public health impact: building bridges between funders and community coalitions (session #3213.1)

2014
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans

1. Philanthropy’s role in advocacy and policy change (session #3118.0)
2. The ACA and philanthropy: strategies to support implementation (session #3221.0)
3. The next transformation in American healthcare: aligning health and healthcare (session #3327.0) 

2015
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Chicago

1. Public Health Funder Network reception (session #311.1)
2. Philanthropic strategies to advance health in all policies (session #3007.0)
3. Philanthropy’s role in measuring progress toward health improvement goals (session #3120.0)
4. The dual role of foundations and grantees in catalyzing change through advocacy (session #3229.0)
5. Taking collective action: engaging people, place and systems to improve health (session #3330.0)
6. Public Health Funder Network business meeting (session #406.0)

2016
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Denver

1. Public Health Funder Network reception(session #299.0) Sponsored by the Colorado Health Foundation
2. Five years of building health communities in California: mid-initiative accomplishments, lessons and adaptations (session #3014.0)
3. Tools for designing and implementing adaptive funding strategies (session #3121.0) 
4. It’s not just about checking boxes: evaluation and learning in philanthropic and pubic health practice (session #3326.0)
5. Hospital community benefit: leveraging the opportunity for change (session #4010.0)
6. Partnering with community: addressing equity and health disparities through philanthropy (session #4102.0)
7. Public Health Funder Network business meeting (session #417.0)
8. Capacity building 3.0: building sustainable learning communities for effective public health delivery (session #4288.0)

2017
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta

1. Public Health Funder Network reception (session #298.0) Sponsored by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation
2. Developing cross-sector leaders to advance health equity (session #3018.0) 
3. Funding public health in a time of political discord (session #3138.0) 
4. Using policy as a lever for improving community health practice (session #3356.0)  
5. The power of aligning partners through funding and impact measurement (session #4010.0) 
6. Healing trauma: A funder's approach to addressing violence (session #4103.1) 
7. Public Health Funder Network business meeting (session #416.0) 
8. Improving rural children's health: funders as partners and catalysts (session #4290.0) 

2018
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in San Diego

1. Public Health Funder Network reception (session #294) Sponsored by the Blue Shield of California Foundation
2. Funding Grassroots, Community Solutions to Address Social Determinants of Health (session #3017)
3. Public Health Funder Network business meeting (session #419)
4. Centering Racial and Health Equity within Government: Lessons from Richmond, E. Salinas, Long Beach and Building Healthy Communities (session #3341)
5. What Funders Can Do As The Opioid Epidemic Reconfigures Health Policy And Funding (session #4012)
6. Exploring Challenges, Barriers and Results of Funders Collaborating to Expand Equity with Comprehensive School-based Health Services (session #4137)
7. Funding and Building Cross-Sector Collaboratives to Improve Children's Health (session #4331)
8. In Their Own Words: Community Organizers' Messages to Funders about What Works, Challenges Faced, and Relevance for Growing Health Equity Now (session #4398)

2019
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

1. The RISE Partnership: Multi-Sector Collaboration to Build Capacity for Readiness, Implementation and Sustainability for Effectiveness (session #3014)
2. Grantmaking Foundations 101 (session #3122)
3. Beyond Grantmaking: Catalyzing Philanthropy and Partnerships to Improve Community Health (session #3234)
4. Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (session #337) Sponsored by Independence Blue Cross Foundation
5. Placed-Based Investment for Health: What Have Foundations Learned (session #4010)
6. From Hunger Relief to Food Sovereignty: Reimagining Funding Strategies for Community Health (session #4127)
7. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting (session #421)
8. Trauma-Informed Philanthropy: Moving from Knowledge to Action (session #4317)

2020
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting (online)

1. Partnerships for Change: New Foundation Strategies for Violence Prevention (session #3011)
2. Grantmaking Foundations 101 (session #3097)
3. Funding Research that Matters: Moving Beyond Inquiry to Action (session #3181)
4. Impact Investing in Credible Community Messengers: Reducing the Generational Impact of Community Violence (session #4011)
5. Activating Partnerships for Impact: How Philanthropy & Cross-Sector Collaboration Can Advance Mental Health and Addiction Outcomes (session #4104)
6. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting (session #413)
7. Building Power to Advance Health Equity: Youth Justice Reform in the California Endowment's 10-Year Building Healthy Communities Initiative (session #4217)

2021
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting online and in Denver 

1. Communities of Solutions: Strengthening Civic Muscle in South Texas (session #2018)
2. Reimagining Philanthropy: Highlights of CDC Foundation Partnership and Strategies to Address Shifting Public Health Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic (session #3016)
3. COVID-19 in Prisons: A Crisis Obscured, but Which Cannot be Ignored (session #3100)
4. Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (session #324) Sponsored by Caring for Colorado Foundation
5. Philanthropy as a Bridge Toward Sustainability: Building Strategic Partnerships with City Systems (session #4006)
6. Community-Based and Data-Informed Outreach and Messaging Strategies to Address Vaccine Hesitancy, Misinformation, and Access Issues in New York: Promoting Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Uptake (session #4062)
7. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting (session #408)
8. Healthy Neighborhood Investments: How Public Health Can Champion Social Connectedness and Advance Health and Racial Equity Among Multi-Sector Partnerships and Community Development (session #4199)

2022
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Boston

1. Foundations as the Bridge: Translating Community Identified Behavioral Health Access Challenges to a Publicly Funded Solution
2. Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundations – 3 perspectives on promoting Equity in Philanthropy
3. Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by the BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts Foundation)
4. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting
5. Engaging a Multi-sector Collaboration Toward Achieving Age-Friendly Health Systems in New York State
6. Accountable Communities of/for Health: Growing evidence for multi-sector collaboratives as vehicles for advancing equity and improving community health
7. Decarcerate and Rehabilitate: Exploring philanthropy's role in solving incarceration through true partnership
8. The Health First Collaborative – A model to align philanthropy with the movement for health justice in Chicagoland

2023
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta

1. Promoting Health Justice in School Environments: Advancing Access to Mental Health Resources and Transforming School Disciplinary Policies as a Public Health Imperative
2. Black-Led Community-Based Organizations Advancing Public Health Equity
3. Public Health Funder Network Social Hour(Sponsored by The Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority)
4. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting - All Welcome
5. Transforming NIH Research through Community Engaged Research, Health Equity Structural Interventions, and Advancing Health Communication
6. Demystifying Philanthropy through Public-Private Partnerships: the Collective Impact of the Live Well Lake County Program
7. Stronger Together: Models of Foundation Partnerships that Respond to the Opioid Crisis
8. Demystifying Public-Private Partnerships in Philanthropy in the South: Lessons from Georgia

2024
PHFN events at the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

1. Public-Private Partnerships for CHW Workforce Sustainability: Best Practices for Developing Successful Collaborations
2. Community-Driven Change to Build/Rebuild Trust: Learnings from Texas Funders
3. Rebuilding Trust through Collaboration: Investing in Public-Private Partnerships to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change
4. Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by the Center for Prevention, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota)
5. Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting
6. Leveraging Philanthropy and Public-Private Partnerships to Drive Medicaid Reform: Advancing Equity in Care for Children 0-6 Years Old
7. Mapping the Terrain: Philanthropy’s Evolving Approaches to Health Equity
8. Rebuilding Trust: Funding Food-Is-Medicine Approaches in Communities of Color