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…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Mental Health
Past and present members of the Hogg Foundation National Advisory Council peer around the corner toward the future of mental health in America. We asked current and former members of our National Advisory Council for their thoughts on what they saw as the future of...
We Have a New Website! Let us know what you think.
We’ve overhauled both the design and the architecture of hogg.utexas.edu in the hopes of better serving our constituents, better reflecting the foundation’s identity and values, and no longer looking like we have a website from 2003
Bite on This! “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” Unless you add the Secret Sauce
Over the past several weeks, I have engaged with several health care non-profits and in all cases the conversation turns inwards: organizational culture. It reminded me that culture is one of the main reasons why most organizations (public and private sector) fall...
The Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma
A two-year partnership with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) culminated in the development of a comprehensive training toolkit on trauma-informed care for children with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD). The training toolkit,...
Houston Symposium to Discuss “Police, Jails, and Vulnerable People”
All to frequently, there is another incident in Texas highlighting how the criminal justice system is in need of serious reform, especially for individuals in the system who are facing poverty or living with a mental illness. The public is now more aware of systemic...
Health Care Reform: A Rechartered Agenda
Happy 2016! It is an exciting time indeed! Presidential debates, political agendas in play, international and domestic issues front and center, major decisions that will impact the lives of all Americans…and none more important than health care reform! I’d like to...