A Conversation for Funders
On July 26, the EITC Funders Network and Grantmakers in Health (GIH) co-hosted a one-hour webinar – Improving Health Outcomes by Connecting to the EITC: A Conversation for Funders – to learn more about the body of research connecting the EITC to positive health outcomes and the ways in which health funders and economic opportunity funders are engaging in this intersect.
Speakers included:
- Kelli Komro, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- Padmini Parthasarathy, The California Wellness Foundation
- Ria Pugeda, Consumer Health Foundation
Webinar slides can be found on the GIH website and a full recording of the webinar is available for GIH Funding Partners. Webinar participants who are not GIH Funding Partners who are interested in receiving a copy of the recording can email [email protected] or [email protected].
Resources:
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Policy Basics: The Earned Income Tax Credit
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, State Earned Income Tax Credits and Minimum Wages Work Best Together
- Brookings, The Earned Income Tax Credit and the White Working Class
- Sara Markowitz, Kelli A. Komro, Melvin D. Livington, Otto Lenhart, Alexander C. Wagenaar, Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the US on Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
- Healthy Places Network
- Prosperity Now, Health and Wealth
- JP Morgan Chase, Deferred Care: How Tax Refunds Enable Healthcare Spending
- EITC Funders Network, GIST, and GCYF: Two Generation Approaches to Poverty Reduction and the EITC (includes an article on the EITC’s impact on health)
- Grantmakers in Health: Philanthropy’s Role in Addressing Neighborhood Conditions that Shape Health?
- Consumer Health Foundation: Racial Equity Impact Assessment Tool
- Asset Funders Network: The Health Wealth Connection: Opportunities for Investment Across the Course of Life