In a recent article for Grantmakers in Health, Rick Ybarra, senior program officer at the Hogg Foundation, explores how philanthropy can contribute to supporting and building a stronger, more robust, and durable nonprofit sector.   

Philanthropy has forever espoused the term “sustainability.” We ask in grant applications and in our conversations with grant partners: “What’s your sustainability plan?” and “How do you plan to sustain your program once the grant ends?” Read more…

Rick Ybarra

Behavioral Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 is unmasking our shortcomings, disparities, inequities, and discrimination towards each other. This unmasking is playing out in multiple arenas simultaneously, one of the major ones being behavioral health.

Behavioral Health Equity in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 is unmasking our shortcomings, gaps, disinvestments, disparities, inequities, and discrimination towards each other. This unmasking is playing out in multiple arenas simultaneously, one of the major ones being behavioral health.