In Sickness and Health: Visitation Rights a Step Towards LGBT Equality

Editor's Note: This post comes from Jane Stafford, Managing Director of the Community Clinics Initiative, a a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment.

While many in the LGBT community wait for President Obama to exert greater leadership on the issue of marriage equality, others in his administration have already taken significant steps towards recognizing the rights of LGBT couples.  Last week, the Department of Health & Human Services issued a press release titled “Medicare steps up enforcement of equal...

Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty

Mercury Policy Project (a project of Tides) and European Environment Bureau recently co-authored this article about MPP's grassroots efforts to promote a strong mercury treaty: "Zero Mercury Campaign Uses Mercury Monitoring Device to Promote Grassroots Actions, Strong Global Treaty."

MPP and its many allies have been working in partnership for over a decade to promote international negotiations leading to a legally binding treaty on mercury -- which now is in the works and will likely be signed in 2013. MPP...

IPAS Celebrates International Women's Day

I had the privilege of celebrating International Women’s Day yesterday with some colleagues over at the Public Health Institute in Oakland. One of Tides grantees, Ipas (www.ipas.org) showed their film, Not Yet Rain http://www.notyetrain.org/.

Not Yet Rain explores abortion in Ethiopia through the voices of women who have faced the challenge of finding safe care. Through their stories, we see the important role that safe abortion care plays in the overall health of women and their families.

Every year,...

Pakistan's Call for Help

Photo: AP

Floods have devastated Pakistan in recent weeks leaving millions homeless and in need of emergency assistance.  About one third of Pakistan has now been affected by the floods – which have marooned hundreds of villages and destroyed power stations, roads and bridges – complicating relief efforts.  The toll of dead and injured is mounting daily, water-borne diseases are spreading, and international relief officials have said the pace of aid donations is still not sufficient to...

The Story of Cosmetics: "N-Nitrosoethanolmaine?"

Here's a post which arrived in our inbox from the Story of Stuff Project, a project of Tides:

Remember 'Toxics In, Toxics Out'?

In The Story of Stuff, Annie explained that as long as we keep putting toxic chemicals into our production system, we'll keep bringing toxic stuff into our homes, workplaces, and schools. Which means we'll keep getting toxics in us.

We're revisiting 'Toxics In, Toxics Out' on July 21st with the release of The Story of Cosmetics, which...

New Challenges for Community Clinics

Community clinics and health centers are a key source of health care for the poor. What will happen to them now that a version of health care reform has passed?

by Tom David, Jane Elizabeth Stafford of Tides' Community Clinics Initiative

After nearly a year of heated debate about health care reform, Americans are used to hearing about the millions of their fellow citizens who are living without access to affordable medical care. But now that a version of reform has passed, what will happen to the institutions that...

Health Care for America Now: What's Next?

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It’s taken 94 years and many failed attempts for the United States to join the rest of the world’s industrial democracies in making health care a right for all its residents.  And while the process was ugly (that old adage about not watching sausage being made, especially if you want to enjoy a pepperoni pizza, comes to mind here) and the final product not everything  we wanted, I am ultimately joyful and relieved...

A Defining Moment for Health Philanthropy

Tom David is a Senior Strategist at Community Clinics Initiative, a project of Tides that was started in partnership with The California Endowment and has granted over $100 million to more than 90 percent of California's community clinics. David recently wrote a rousing commentary for last week's Grantmakers In Health annual meeting calling health foundations to act – now. An excerpt of the eight page article is below, or you can read the entire commentary.

From A Defining Moment for Health Philanthropy,...

Speaking Power to "Truth"

As Congress debates Health Care Reform, the stimulus package starts showing signs of positive impact, and the war on Afghanistan intensifies, what is the right wing media up to? First of all, they're keeping the debate alive over the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. Second, they're intensifying their attacks on the nonprofit organizations working on climate change, economic justice and other causes they deem "radical." These attacks are no longer the sphere of the right wing blogosphere; they're going...