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Erasing National Minority Health Month makes it more difficult to address the disparities it once drew attention to.

Janiece Evans-Page, CEO of Tides, discusses her journey, social justice, philanthropy, Black History Month, and amplifying oppressed voices while supporting community change.

Blue Shield of California Foundation prioritizes community researchers to create solutions that reflect real needs.

Partnership is a core value of the Foundation and to us, it means more than direct funding.

Debbie Chang, president and CEO of the Foundation, writes about how innovative strategies at both the national and local levels can help prevent domestic violence and create safer communities.

Learn how The Maven Collaborative is working to create gender and racial equity via research, advocacy, and narrative change.

Reflections on recent funding opportunities, policy successes, and innovations that address and prevent childhood trauma in California.

Natalie Patterson, a poet and leader with BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective), talks with Blue Shield of California Foundation about her work.

Blue Shield of California Foundation led a workshop for health funders at the 2023 Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual conference held in Minneapolis.

Care work is skilled work that should be compensated. Care work allows all other forms of work to take place. Care work is vital to our economy.

The Equity in Multisector Collaboration toolkit is a comprehensive resource to deepen equity for collaborations. It focuses on five equity capabilities and includes an assessment for collaboratives to understand where they are in their equity journey.

What some child- and family-serving organizations in California — members of a collaborative called All In For Kids — are learning about ways to prevent domestic violence and other childhood trauma.