More Than Health Care: Nonprofits and Health Care Working Together

More Than Health Care: Nonprofits and Health Care Working Together

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More Than Health Care: Nonprofits and Health Care Working Together episodes

  • Five Months Asking Five Questions

    Be inspired by Hector Colon, president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and the innovative steps he took to turn around a struggling organization. They went from being in the red—losing more than $10 million—to a thriving organization in the black.

    30 min
  • Let’s Stop the Nonprofit Hunger Games
    Be inspired by your own power. Be encouraged by Vu Le to stop the B.S. and see the power of the nonprofit sector. Get concrete examples of changes you can do today to even the playing field.  https://nonprofitaf.com/
    34 min
  • Encore Episode: Taking a Leap of Faith Across Sectors

    Be inspired by Hawaii. When you are literally on an island, innovation and actively listening to partners must be a part of your strategy. [Themes: Healthy Thriving Futures approach: Help Hawaii’s families to address serious life challenges such as poverty, abuse, and neglect. Child & Family Service has adapted proven practice and intervention models to meet the needs of Hawaii’s multicultural communities.]

    19 min
  • It's Evolutionary! Building Means Partnering Across Sectors Pt. 1
    Be inspired by how having an entrepreneurial spirit allows a 140-year-old organization to continue to evolve in order to serve. ‘We will not move the needle on these stubborn disparities in our community by only partnering with the nonprofit down the street. It is going to take a cross-sector partnership.’ https://pillsburyunited.org/
    32 min
  • Encore Episode: Right work. Right time. Right person.

    Be inspired to honor differences. Listen to the learnings from a social service organization and hospital that formally merged. Hint: You cannot hold a 30-minute meeting in the ER. [Themes: Opportunities through partnership with hospital systems to do more work in prevention with families and patients. Strategies for bridging health care and social service cultures.]

    21 min
  • When COVID-19 Came and the Child Abuse Hotline Stopped Ringing

    Be inspired by Dr. Bob Shapiro, director of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and how his team has quickly innovated to create tools and guides for community members, such as schools and daycares, to help keep kids safe in their homes. In the wake of COVID-19, his team is showing ‘how barriers really don't need to be barriers.

    42 min
  • Encore Episode: Using the community to drive community health

    Starting with the aim to tackle root causes of chronic disease in communities, BUILD Health Challenge launched their first cohort in 2015. Today, they are supporting work in 37 communities within 21 different states including the Washington D.C. Celebrating innovation and creativity, cohort members are tacking complex health issues in unique ways that are accomplishing solid results. Join us as we talk with Emily about her company’s continued journey to learn alongside the community.

    23 min
  • Encore Episode: The Non-Profit Sector…Something has to give
    We are under-invested within the social services sector and have been for a very long time. Since the health/medical sector is well supported financially, decision making power often lies with them.  Angela challenges us to get innovative and creative and do things differently to create a new future for our sector and better outcomes for those we serve.  You will be inspired and motivated to move mountains after listening to this!
    26 min

About More Than Health Care: Nonprofits and Health Care Working Together

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If we want to improve health and well-being while lowering care costs, we must look beyond health care to the social determinants of health. Hosts Jill Huynh and Erin Keltner, who work at the…