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Elana Brochin, program director for health equity at Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations joined Build Healthy Places Network as a guest on our panel “multi-sector rural health partnerships for equitable recovery” at the National Rural Health Association’s annual conference, May 10-13, 2022. She shares some reflections on her experience there.
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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
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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.
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” —Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”
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Without significant investments in affordable housing, efforts to Build Back Better will fail to meaningfully advance racial and economic equity. Our latest Expert Insight makes the case for why the federal government needs to invest now in affordable housing.
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The recently released AAMC’s Principles of Trustworthiness are a timely guide for organizations who interface with community members—in any sector, not just health care—to demonstrate that they are worthy of their community’s trust.
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