Georgia Health Policy Center

Private Policy & Grants Management

Academic Presentations

Framework for Community-based Cancer Prevention and Control
An outline of the framework for designing a community-based cancer prevention program, tips offered for how to best use it, and suggests additional information and resources for communities that wish to tailor it to their own unique needs and priorities

Philanthropic collaborative Promotes Rural Health
A focus on the second initiative of the Collaborative: Access Georgia Rural Health Matching Grants. The Initiative’s vision and goal, the review process, and key features of the grants are described.

Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians?
An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians.

Philanthropic Collaborative Awards School Health Matching Grants
An update report on how the Collaborative’s Matching Grants Program was born, to focus public an private funds on high priority health care issues.

Philanthropic Collaborative Holds Kickoff Meeting
On August 31, 2000, the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Health Georgia held its initial meeting.

Issue Briefs

Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians?
An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians

Reports

Preventing Overweight Children In Georgia: Opportunities for Foundations and Grantmakers
Papers commissioned by Childhood Obesity Task Force Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia to examine evidence-based interventions related to nutrition and physical activity.

Summary Report: School Health Matching Grants Conference
The Georgia Department of Community Health, with the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, developed a matching grants initiative focused on school health in Georgia.

Making Coverage for the Uninsured The Role of Community Initiatives: Findings from a Study of Five States
As health care costs and the number of uninsured Americans continue to increase, community initiative across the country are steadfast in their efforts to bridge the growing gap between public and private health insurance coverage.

Framework for Community-based Cancer Prevention and Control
An outline of the framework for designing a community-based cancer prevention program, tips offered for how to best use it, and suggests additional information and resources for communities that wish to tailor it to their own unique needs and priorities

Preventing Overweight Children – A Brief for Foundations
An examination of evidence-based intervention related to nutrition and physical activity from several perspectives: policymaking, health communications, and behavioral and environmental changes.

Why Provide Health Care to Children In Schools?
A focus on the fact that Georgia’s children are less healthy than their counterparts in most other states. 

Working Papers

Philanthropic Collaborative Tackles Childhood Obesity
An introduction to the fourth initiative of the Collaborative: Childhood Obesity. Progress and highlights of the Collaborative’s Matching Grants Initiatives on school health and rural health are shared.

Philanthropic collaborative Promotes Rural Health
A focus on the second initiative of the Collaborative: Access Georgia Rural Health Matching Grants. The Initiative’s vision and goal, the review process, and key features of the grants are described.