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Philanthropy and Community Health Series Part 1: The Landscape
Part 1 of our series on philanthropy and community health looks at the value that philanthropy offers to community programs as "first in" capital. And how organizations sometimes remain dependent on philanthropic funding instead of transitioning to more market-based and/or governmental payment models. Philanthropy has several other capital options it can use to help community organizations undertake broader strategic planning and get ready to diversify their revenue.
Social Care Hubs: A three-part approach to sustainability
Social care hubs have a unique coordinating and enhancing role to play in addressing community health related social needs. Hubs – and other social service providers financed though Medicaid 1115 waivers – need to find new financing mechanisms and models to sustain their work beyond the end of the waiver periods. In this blog, we lay out a three-part approach to financial sustainability for hubs.
One Year In, We Celebrate QVHS’ First Anniversary and Share Our Appreciation
As we mark QV Health Solutions 1st anniversary, we share what was easy, what was hard, what was surprising, and what’s next. New colleagues, new markets, new partners, and a continued focus on positive impact, capital for value production, enabling health solutions to expand and endure.
Community Paramedicine: Promising, Not A Panacea
The wide and growing range of successful community paramedicine programs is a testament to the model’s ability to adapt to various policy contexts and address local community needs. The impact and effectiveness of this model depends on community conditions, execution with fidelity, and attention to desired outcomes – all factors that funders and states may overlook when faced with short timelines and pressure to demonstrate results.
Preserve Social Needs Investments Through Strategic Community Health Worker Deployment
Community Health Worker (CHW) programs can become a cornerstone of sustainable Health Related Social Needs work. In this blog, we outline how successful programs deploy CHWs where they generate the greatest impact, capture data, and report the outcomes that justify continued investment.
Value Clarity: A Foundation for Community-Based Organizations in Times of Funding Uncertainty
Many organizations struggle with the question of how to maintain their mission when financial foundations feel increasingly unstable. The answer is value clarity: developing a rigorously defined characterization of how core services generate value and an appreciation of which key organizational features support delivery of that value.
Financial Test Drives to Illuminate the Path Forward
When partnering with CBOs who are exploring new services and/or program expansion, financial modeling becomes a powerful tool. Using reasonable inputs and scenario-based planning, financial models allow us to test drive options under different conditions without risk.
Everything is Different…and Also the Same: Present and Future Funding for Solutions that Deliver Health Outcomes
Policy design can promote successful integration of health-related services into healthcare delivery in a way that improves outcomes. To address upstream drivers of health, solutions need to be community oriented, appropriately targeted, well coordinated, as well as predictably, durably, and adequately funded.
We’re Live! Same Mission and People – New Name
While our organizational structure is new, our people, passion, and purpose remain the same: To drive capital to projects and programs that deliver positive health and social impact. We are heartened to support partners in boldly pursuing efforts to both identify and optimize programs making a positive impact, and to enhance their capacity to sustainably operate.
Build for Tomorrow, Starting Today: The Opportunity and the Imperative for Impact Investors in the United States
It’s no wonder that impact investors (ok, nearly all investors) are being cautious with how they deploy capital in the United States these days. Uncertainties driven by shifts in federal policy, significant public sector employee reductions, and large pullbacks in federal funding make this a tumultuous time – especially for those investors with an interest in seeing both financial and social impact returns.
A New Equation for Sustainable Health Solutions: Performance-Based Revenue + Mission-Aligned Capital = Sustainable Quality Health Solutions
There is increasing recognition that social drivers of health are often most effectively addressed at the community level, by trusted organizations with local roots. While traditional healthcare providers can play a critical role, local community-based organizations (CBOs) deliver incredible value in geographies rural, metropolitan, and everywhere in between. But across the board the compensation that CBOs earn through government contracts, fee-for-service reimbursement, and other sources falls far short of both the costs they incur and the actual value they produce.
Getting to the “Win3” – How Managed Care Plans Can Develop High-Value Partnerships
Reflecting on a teammate’s recent call with a community-based organization (CBO) and a managed care plan (MCP), I was struck by one participant’s observation that this call was different – namely, that the focus was to develop what the Quantified Ventures team refers to as a true win-win-win (win3) solution by aligning parties on shared impact objectives.
Impatient for Systems Change to Adequately Fund Health Related Social Needs? Us Too.
At Quantified Ventures, we believe in the power and promise of community-based service providers to deliver better individual and community health outcomes – especially for people most affected by systemic racism and poverty. To meet high levels of demand and drive these outcomes most effectively, service providers need new sources of funding that are – in all respects – more: more reliable than philanthropy, more robust than fee-for-service healthcare reimbursement, and more flexible than government grant programs.
