Public Policy

At the August Education Initiative meeting, the State Board of Education President and the Interim State Superintendent shared the state’s priorities and strategies to address academic recovery and promote student success. Hear about the Ohio General Assembly’s education priorities for the lame duck session and Philanthropy Ohio’s priority education areas as we look toward the next biennium.

This webinar recording shared how having a keen understanding of organizational capacity is crucial to ensuring foundations and nonprofits engaged in community organizing can act quickly on advocacy opportunities when they present themselves.

This webinar recording shares how the expected U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Public Health Emergency contraction will create a benefits cliff and impact health care, nutrition (in schools and at home), family economic stability and support in state and local communities. Hear about recommendations to mitigate the effects on the Ohioans who will be most impacted and opportunities for funders to engage.

The July Health Initiative meeting featured updates on the Ohio Regional Convergence Partnership funder collaborative, the OhioRise program for children and youth, the legislature's Public Benefits Accountability Task Force and the COVID-19 benefits cliff. Hear the latest findings in the Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s (HPIO) report on death trends.

This webinar recording captures how private and public foundations can engage in nonpartisan election-related activities.

Operation BRIDGE, or Bridging Recovery and Interdiction Data Gathering Enforcement, grew out of a small research study that determined when law enforcement removes a drug trafficker from a community, there is an uptick in overdose cases.

Governor Mike DeWine announced the Ohio Department of Medicaid’s launch of OhioRISE (Resilience through Integrated Systems and Excellence), Ohio’s first-ever highly specialized behavioral health program for children and youth with the most complex behavioral health needs who are served by Medicaid.

Opiate Crisis Funding Snapshot

Philanthropy Ohio urges a strong direct approach for increasing Ohio student FAFSA rates in this policy briefing.

Philanthropy Ohio recommends that any new school funding plan must be anchored in adequacy, predictability and equity in this policy briefing.