Announcing Community Innovations for Racial Equity Launch!

Build Healthy Places Network is thrilled to announce the 10 BIPOC-led Community Development Corporations that have been selected for our 2022 Community Innovations for Racial Equity (CIRE) Initiative peer learning cohort funded by The Kresge Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Voices from the Field: Lessons learned from BHPN’s Community Innovations Initiative

For decades, healthcare and community development have been working in the same places, sometimes with the same people, and often not together. Community development organizations with the greatest amount of capacity and support have been most able to access the resources and network needed to accelerate health partnerships. Meanwhile, many smaller and lower-resourced community development corporations are excluded from the national dialogue, resulting in less access to the resources needed to successfully engage healthcare investment partners in the social determinants of health (SDOH).  Community Innovations, was a 18-month BHPN initiative funded by The Kresge Foundation that launched in 2019 with the aim of connecting local organizations to other peer organizations; facilitating healthcare-community development partnerships through access to tools, resources and capacity and  the Network’s understanding of how best to support community development organizations’ cross-sector efforts.

Healthy Neighborhood Investments Policy Convening for Advancing Racial and Health Equity

Healthy Neighborhood Investments: Policy Convening for Advancing Health and Racial Equity

Join Build Healthy Places Network and Shift Health Accelerator for the upcoming Healthy Neighborhood Investments: Policy Convening for Advancing Health and Racial Equity on May 19 and 20 at 9:00-11:00 am PT/ 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET.

Press Release: New Dignity Health investment to transform health and equity outcomes for South Stockton neighborhood

Dignity Health St. Joseph's Medical Center recently announced a $130,000 investment to transform health outcomes and advance equity in South Stockton.

Announcing a New and Exciting Factsheet Series

Mental Health, Social Isolation and Homelessness. Arguably three of our most insidious social challenges that have been on the rise over recent decades and that have become even more prominent during this COVID-19 pandemic. Three elements that have intersectionality, share many root causes and disproportionately impact groups and communities according to race, gender, income and age.