Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) is launching the Community Innovations for Racial Equity initiative with support from The Kresge Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. This initiative focuses on advancing community development and healthcare partnerships to effectively propel racial equity by building local community development capacity, supporting community power, exploring innovative community ownership models, and addressing the barriers and gaps.
As a first step, BHPN wants to hear from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-led community development corporations (CDCs) about how they are engaging with the health sector to better support partnerships that advance racial equity. Our goal is to uncover the needs relative to challenges and impacts emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic among these partnerships. Whether your CDC has never thought about partnering with healthcare, has made it a priority, or falls somewhere in between, we want to hear from you.
Please take 15 minutes to fill out the survey by Tuesday, February 15. The results will be shared in the aggregate - individual responses will be kept anonymous.
Contact Colleen Flynn with any technical issues or questions.
About Build Healthy Places Network:
Our mission is to transform the way organizations work together across the health, community development, and finance sectors to more effectively reduce poverty, advance racial equity, and improve health in neighborhoods across the United States. Based in San Francisco and working nationally, we are a program of the Public Health Institute.
