PubHub - Toolkits

Creating Order From Chaos: Roles for Philanthropy in Disaster Planning and Response

2012-05-17

Publisher: Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Published: April 2012
Based on the fund's experiences after the 2011 tornadoes in Alabama, offers a framework for preparing for and responding to disasters. Lists funding and support opportunities through planning and preparation, first response, and recovery and rebuilding.
Funder(s): Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Subject(s): Disaster Relief; Philanthropy and Voluntarism; Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Capacity Building

Tools for Change: Applying United Nations Standards to Secure Women's Housing, Land, and Property Rights in the Context of HIV

2012-05-03

Publisher: Open Society Foundations
Published: April 2012
Outlines how women's lack of control over their economic, social, and sexual lives affects HIV infection rates. Offers documents, resources, tools, and examples of successful efforts to advocate for and enforce women's housing, land, and property rights.
Funder(s): Open Society Foundations
Related Organization(s): Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, Federation of Women Lawyers - Kenya, Huairou Commission, Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS, United Nations Development Program, Women's Inheritance Now, Women and Law in Southern Africa-Malawi
Subject(s): Women; Civil and Human Rights; Health, HIV/AIDS

Icebreaker Meetings Toolkit: A Tool for Building Relationships Between Birth and Foster Parents

2012-04-19

Publisher: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Published: March 2012
Describes how Icebreaker meetings designed to connect birth and foster parents benefit all parties, in part by allowing the child to see both parents and caregivers focusing on his/her best interests. Shares group processes, challenges, and successes.
Funder(s): Annie E. Casey Foundation
Subject(s): Children and Youth; Human Services; Human Services, Family Services

Determining Health Benefit Designs to Be Offered on a State Health Insurance Exchange

2012-04-01

Publisher: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Published: November 2011
As a resource for states in planning and implementing an insurance exchange, provides documents and lessons learned from Massachusetts' development, through a public procurement process, of health insurance products for unsubsidized individual purchasers.
Funder(s): Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Subject(s): Health; Health, Health Insurance/Coverage; Public Affairs

Effective Education, Outreach, and Enrollment Approaches for Populations Newly Eligible for Health Coverage

2012-03-27

Publisher: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Published: March 2012
Offers strategies, lessons learned, and links to templates, materials, and other resources to help states plan and implement outreach and enrollment efforts, with a focus on those who will become eligible for Medicaid or subsidized coverage in 2014.
Funder(s): Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Subject(s): Health; Health, Health Insurance/Coverage; Public Affairs

Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centered Medical Homes

2012-03-14

Publisher: Commonwealth Fund
Author(s): Wagner, Ed; Katie Coleman; Kathryn Phillips; Robert J. Reid; Jonathan R. Sugarman
Published: February 2012
Describes in detail eight change concepts as a guide to transforming a practice into a patient-centered medical home, including engaged leadership, quality improvement strategy, continuous and team-based healing relationships, and enhanced access.
Funder(s): Commonwealth Fund
Subject(s): Health; Health, Healthcare Access/Reform

A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good

2012-02-23

Publisher: Social Finance
Published: February 2012
Provides an overview of how social impact bonds work; the key players, including nonprofits, investors, and government; potential risks with intervention models, execution, and government repayment; and how intermediaries can help mitigate those risks.
Funder(s): Rockefeller Foundation
Subject(s): Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Voluntarism; Human Services

Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising From Ecosystem Change

2012-02-23

Publisher: World Resources Institute
Published: February 2012
Outlines the Corporate Ecosystem Services Review, a methodology to help businesses develop strategies for managing operational, regulatory, reputational, market, and financing risks and opportunities arising from their dependence and impact on ecosystems.
Funder(s): David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish International Biodiversity Program, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Subject(s): Environment; Environment, Global Climate Change; Environment, Biodiversity/Conservation

International Grantmaking: Funding With a Global View

2012-02-15

Publisher: GrantCraft
Published: June 2006
Outlines the rationales and motives for funding internationally, sources of information about funding options and regulations, ways to bridge distance and cultural differences, the role of intermediaries, lessons learned, and grantees' perspectives.
Funder(s): Ford Foundation
Subject(s): Philanthropy and Voluntarism; International Affairs/Development; Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Program Evaluation

Green for Greens: Finding Public Financing for Healthy Food Retail

2012-02-01

Publisher: Public Health Law & Policy
Published: January 2012
Offers an overview of how to approach economic development agencies with proposals to eliminate "food deserts" that provide limited access to affordable and nutritious food and how to apply for local, state, and federal funding assistance and programs.
Funder(s): Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Related Organization(s): National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Subject(s): Health; Agriculture/Food; Health, Public Health