The Healthy and Equitable Community Investment report, authored by the Healthy and Equitable Community Investment work group, led by the Conservation Law Foundation, includes recommendations for how the growing ecosystem of tools, approaches, and data sources should support community investment’s impact on health and equity in communities. Through the work group’s collaboration and convening of leaders in the field of measuring community investment, the working group found:
Read MoreThe Center for Community Investment, in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, has published Investing in Community Health: A Toolkit for Hospitals.
Read MoreThe potential health returns from community development investments are vast. This research estimates a nearly 300% rate of return from one such comprehensive development project in Washington D.C. and provides an ROI calculator to estimate health returns for other community development investments.
Read MoreOpportunity Zones have the potential to improve conditions that influence social determinants of health in high need neighborhoods.
Read MorePublished in the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Network's Renee Roy Elias' study uses the case of housing revitalization in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood to determine the feasibility of analyzing public, private, and nonprofit investment flows related to the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative and HOPE SF.
Read MoreThis "Building Pre-K” report from LIIF examines efforts aimed at financing quality preschool facilities at scale and highlights the potential for increasing the impact of collaborations among philanthropy, community development financiers and the public sector.
Read MoreWhen you invest in the Enterprise Community Impact Note, you are supporting the creation of vibrant and equitable communities where families have access to healthy, affordable homes connected to good schools, jobs, transit and health care services. This report features the stories of people who are prospering thanks to your support. They are residents and patients at CAMBA Gardens in New York City and Stout Street Health Center and Lofts in Denver. This is your Social Return on Investment.
Read More“Community investing” is investment that seeks to deliver social benefits to low-income or marginalized communities while also generating a financial return. This report provides an overview of the U.S. Community Investing (USCI) field: the types of intermediary organizations raising investments and deploying them in underserved communities, the range of investment products that are available, and the types of investors active in the space. In so doing, this study surfaces several key barriers and opportunities for scaling private investment in the USCI space.
Read MoreImagine a healthy community as a connect-the-dots landscape painting. Each “dot” has its place and purpose: affordable housing, a vibrant economy, safe streets and public transportation, a high quality public education system, easy access to fresh food and safe recreation, and a healthcare system that provides both preventative and responsive services. When connected as designed by “artists” – community developers, business owners, school administrators, urban planners, traffic engineers and health professionals – the dots become a vibrant work of art that is a healthy community. Today, we stand before a huge canvas with the challenge to collaborate on a shared vision for something creative and grand, as well as practical and effective – a healthy community.
Read MoreIn a commentary for the Institute of Medicine, LIIF's Nancy Andrews explores how a $100 billion investment in affordable housing and early education can create healthier communities.
Read MoreTestimony by David Fleming, former Director and Health Officer of public health in Seattle & King County, Washington, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America.
Read MoreThis report by The Food Trust and The Reinvestment Fund is intended to be a resource for advocates at public health and community and economic development organizations working to increase the availability of nutritious foods and revitalize their neighborhoods.
Read MorePay for success can save health care costs, improve patient outcomes and create a market that values health, not just health care.
Read MoreWhat are some valuable lessons learned about investing in healthy community change? Active Living By Design (ALBD) developed this resource for funders as a way of exploring that question.
Read MoreIn 2001, CalPERS established the California Initiative to invest private equity in traditionally underserved markets, with the objective of generating attractive financial returns.
Read MoreThe CDFI Coverage Map is a tool that measures community development finance institution coverage across the United States.
Read MoreRecognition by the business community of the need to invest in creating healthy communities is growing. This paper identifies major corporate players in this arena and describes the business case for corporate investments in community health improvement.
Read MoreWhat are the primary challenges CDFIs face in measuring their non-financial impacts, and how can logic models help to communicate these returns?
Read MoreCross-sector strategies require a common framework and shared standards for achieving maximum impact.
Read MoreA path forward for one chronic condition - childhood asthma - and the potential for spreading this approach to the broader health system.
Read MoreWe spend $2.6 trillion a year on treating illness. Could investing in people rather than treatment help us redirect some of that money toward preventing the underlying problems?
Read MoreExamining the California Organized Insurance Network (COIN) CDFI Tax Credit Program, its job expansion implications and key drivers necessary for replication.
Read MoreCan community development finance help "bend the cost curve" for health care?
Read MoreThe Healthy Futures Fund is designed to expand access to health care and affordable housing for low-income residents and fund critical social services that help link the two in impoverished neighborhoods.
Read MoreInvestment in health centers - including that from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) - is paying off.
Read MoreWhen a CDFI created a fund to attract socially inclined companies to invest in housing, local health organization UnitedHealth Group responded with a $50 million investment.
Read More