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 New Community Innovation Awardees

In November 2019, Build Healthy Places Network (the Network), with funding from The Kresge Foundation, launched Community Innovations to deepen outreach to and learning from local community development organizations that serve low-income communities and people of color. Community Innovations has a three-pronged goal: to enhance the Network’s understanding of how best to support local organizations’ cross-sector efforts; to connect local organizations to other peer organizations and the larger national dialogue, resources, and tools; and to embed capacity within organizations to undertake health strategies and engage with healthcare.

U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling leads to inequitable access to healthcare

Build Healthy Places Network responds to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.