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…
Is Mental Health Being Ignored in Presidential Politics?
Has there been conversation about mental health in this year’s presidential race? Sure. Has it been substantive and thorough? That’s open for debate. The remaining candidates have, for the most part, only scratched the surface of the issue, often treating it as...
A Resource for Children and Youth in Foster Care
Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) is the latest health and human services agency to face a public outcry over its management and performance. As reported in the Dallas Morning News and elsewhere, high staff turnover caused by overwhelming case loads and low pay...
Illustrating Hogg
As an organization, the Hogg Foundation is tactful about the public stands it takes. Whenever possible, we try to walk that fine line between blandly universal pronouncements (i.e. "mental health matters!") that hardly merit an op-ed and chasing after "relevance" in a...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...
What Can Health Care Learn from Silicon Valley? Lots!
A Harvard Business Review article dated April 26, 2016, got me reexamining the cliché “let’s not reinvent the wheel.” When one thinks of startups, innovators, and entrepreneurs, we often look west to Silicon Valley, the heart and soul of the technology industry. Many...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...