Lessons for Leaders: Navigating the Process of Healthy Community Change

Active Living By Design (ALBD) created this resource for leaders of local, healthy community partnerships. Its purpose is to serve as a “mentor in print,” providing practical, field-tested strategic guidance to help leaders be more proactive and effective. They developed accessible lessons, principles and examples from the experiences and wisdom of many healthy community partnerships and their leaders. The core lessons:

• emerge directly from the practice of community partnerships and leaders with whom we have worked;
• are broadly applicable to healthy communities work regardless of strategy or community setting; and
• address strategic topics that could spark reflection and improve leaders’ decisions.

 

ALBD has learned about the process of healthy community change over more than a decade of work. Established in 2002 as a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), ALBD has served more than a dozen funders and 160 partnerships across the country that are fostering community-led change, primarily to build a culture of active living and healthy eating.

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