The GrantWatch section of Health Affairs Blog features news and updates about health grant making, particularly as it relates to current health policy issues. Blog content can include information on foundation-funded reports and on new initiatives and grants, plus news from foundation meetings, occasional “People Posts” announcing personnel changes and job openings at foundations, and more.

Submission Guidelines

1.    In general, it is best that the document you submit not have been published elsewhere (in print or on the Web) before. Occasionally, we do publish a post that has been previously published on another blog—with necessary attribution and permissions, of course. Do let us know upfront if you are suggesting that we re-publish something that you have written.

2.    Your blog post should not be too general: there should be a philanthropy “angle.” For example, how did the foundation decide to fund this project? How much funding is the foundation putting into this project? If reporting results: most (perhaps many) foundation-funded programs do not have all good news to report: were there any “challenges” in this project—things that did not work out?

3.    Post should not be a PR piece for the philanthropy (or the grantee)! No press releases!

4.    Length should be 600–1,000 words.

5.    Try to avoid jargon and acronyms. The journal as a whole has a goal of making articles and blogs posts accessible to the educated non-policy wonk!

6.    Blog posts do not use footnotes or endnotes. However, we do encourage appropriate citation of others’ work by using hyperlinks. If you do not know how to create hyperlinks, you can just say <http://www.healthaffairs.org> etc., at the place in the sentence where you want the link, and we will put it in.

7.    If your post is accepted for publication, we will send it back to you after we have edited it to make sure our edits have not changed your meaning. At that time, we will send you any queries, such as requests for clarification or for more details.