The Hard Truth About Campaign Readiness
Campaign readiness is often treated like waiting for a green light. However, readiness is something you earn by doing the internal work: clarifying priorities, aligning leaders and being honest about capacity, timing and risk.
Keeping It Fresh: Sustaining Engaged Clinician Partnerships
Strong clinician partnerships are essential to successful grateful patient engagement programs. Yet even high-performing programs can lose momentum over time. Not because clinicians stop caring. But because engagement becomes routine.
Best Practice in Campaigns: A Standard, Not A Checklist
Best practice is helpful until a campaign hits real life. In health care philanthropy, the difference between “knowing the playbook” and winning often comes down to whether leaders are willing to do the unglamorous work: align priorities, name tradeoffs and show up consistently as partners in the ask.
Making the Case for Principal Giving Programs
This paper explores what differentiates principal giving to health care, what the data are beginning to reveal and how your foundation can prepare for a different level of philanthropic investment.
Authentic Donor Engagement: Unlocking the Power of Alignment
In Part 4 of this four-part series on authentic donor engagement, we discover how to translate appreciation into lasting, mission-driven investment.
Planning Smarter: Building Your 2026 Health Care Philanthropy Strategy
As we step into 2026, the challenge is no longer understanding how giving has changed. It is translating those lessons into smart, measurable strategy. Here is what planning smarter looks like in 2026.
How 2025 Forever Changed Health Care Giving
As we reflect on year 2025, the philanthropic landscape—particularly within health care—presents both significant opportunities and pressing challenges. For health care philanthropy professionals, this is the moment to rethink engagement models from the ground up.