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HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Checking In With Grantmakers In Health's New President and CEO (2/11/13)

An interview with Grantmakers In Health's new President and CEO Faith Mitchell. Faith shares her plans for GIH, visions for health philanthropy, and opportunities for collaboration on health determinants and disparities.

Mindful Living: Human Health, Pollution, and Toxics

An education, action, and worship resource to promote stewardship of the environment and our bodies with churches.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Drilling Deeper (10/1/12)

This blog post is an introduction to HEFN's new report, "Drilling Deeper: Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing and Related Grantmaking Strategies," and helps explain why fracking has caught the attention of many in the philanthropic community.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Six Months Later (4/29/13)

April 29, 2013 marks six months since Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York and New Jersey shorelines. HEFN Communications Associate Lauren Linville outlines opportunities, challenges, and advice HEFN has heard from the field for philanthropy in this blog post.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Tracking the Field (10/22/12)

An interview with our colleagues at the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Rachel Leon and Franny Canfield share insights from EGA's latest grants tracking report, Tracking the Field, and what it tells us about environmental health philanthropy.

2008 Proxy Season Preview

Health care reform, toxics, product safety, nanomaterials, political donations, worker exposure…......... Every year there are hundreds of shareholder resolutions on environmental health and social issues that are directly relevant to the missions of foundations. Learn how your foundation — by voting its shareholder proxies — can leverage its investments and help push public companies to act on these vital issues. The 2008 Proxy Season Preview is designed specifically to help foundations identify these resolutions and vote their proxies in an informed manner. The Chicago Tribune calls it the “Bible for socially progressive foundations”. The Preview highlights key issues, describes current social and environmental resolutions, identifies the investors and organizations filing them, provides a comprehensive list of companies and upcoming proxy votes, features new foundation reports, and includes a resource section that will enable foundations to learn more about what their colleagues are doing in the way of aligning mission and investments. This new publication is from As You Sow, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and is available at no charge at www.asyousow.org

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Clean & Green 2013 (1/7/13)

HEFN Director Kathy Sessions shares HEFN's resolutions to make everyone's lives more clean and green in 2013.

National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) Children & Nature Infographic

NEEF's Children & Nature Infographic illustrates how being active in nature makes kids healthier. More information about the health benefits of nature for children and how to get involved on this topic are shown on NEEF's website.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Investing For Long-Life Zip Codes (12/10/12)

David Fukuzawa of the Kresge Foundation shares what the Kresge Foundation and the Health and Housing Funders Forum are doing to encourage funding at the intersections of health and housing in this blog post.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Our Road to Recovery (12/17/12)

This blog post was written by Margaret Waldock of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey. She reflects on life after Sandy and shares how the Dodge Foundation and other philanthropists are helping New Jersey rebuild smarter and stronger.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Getting Endocrine Disruptors Out of New Chemicals (2/4/2013)

In this post, Karen Peabody O'Brien and Pete Myers share news about TiPED, a new screening tool to help chemists design chemicals that are safer for people and the planet.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Lilliputians and Yardsticks (2/18/13)

HEFN member Ruth Hennig shares her thoughts on why philanthropy struggles to attract and retain funders to environmental health issues, and what it can do to change that in this Giving InSight blog post.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: A First Survey of the Fracking Field (3/4/2013) (Hydrofracking)

In this blog post, Jon Cracknell summarizes key findings on NGO and philanthropic activity surrounding fracking from HEFN's Fracking Survey 2012.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Real Results: How Justice & Strategy Can Help Issue-Specific Funders (3/11/13)

Could fusing strategy and justice for strategic philanthropy increase effectiveness? Niki Jagpal from the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy advocates for that approach in this Giving InSight blog post.

HEFN's Giving InSight blog post: Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking (3/18/13) (Hydrofracking)

Still not sure what the big deal is about fracking? HEFN Program Manager Ramtin Arablouei has 7 reasons why your foundation should be paying attention to this controversial method for extracting natural gas.

News Slice--special Gulf Coast oil spill edition

A special issue of Healthy Schools Network's online monthly News Slice, devoted to the Gulf oil spill and the threats it poses to children's health

Marine Environmental Research Institute Press Release on Dispersant use in the Gulf

Leading ocean scientists issue consensus statement to end dispersant use in Gulf, call for independent research.

Presentation by Kim Gaddy

Presentation for HEFN's December 12, 2007 call on Diesel & Health.

Presentation by Brooke Suter

Presentation for HEFN's December 12, 2007 call on Diesel & Health.

National Healthy Schools Day

Our save-the-date flyer for the annual National Healthy Schools Day, April 28, 2008.