FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The post Safety Net Health Plans and Community Development Unite for Healthier, More Prosperous Communities appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Publications Explore this selection of useful publications ranging from in-depth essays to our easy-read newsletter and gain insight from expert partners on trends in the field. Our Publications and Reports Explore our publications and reports for insights to important cross-sector work addressing social determinants of health.| Build Healthy Places Network
What does it take to truly shift power in community development? And who gets to decide?| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network’s Video Snapshots offer quick deep dives with experts from the community development, health, and finance sectors. Our current series focuses on the vital role of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in fostering healthy and prosperous communities. The post Why Community Development Financial Institutions are Essential for Community Health and Prosperity appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Recent years have seen a focus on the increasing division in the national dialogue, particularly around issues of race and equity. Now more than ever, we need spaces where we can collectively identify our shared values to build support to advance health for all.| Build Healthy Places Network
In April 2025, Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) convened awardees of its Community Innovations for Racial Equity (CIRE) initiative in St. Louis, MO, for a transformative in-person gathering. With generous support from The Kresge Foundation, CIRE fosters collaboration and capacity building among BIPOC-led and allied Community Development Corporations (CDCs) to advance health and racial equity. This convening aimed to strengthen connections, foster trust, and facilitate peer-to-peer learning...| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network is excited to announce that we’re celebrating the continuation of our powerful partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation! This renewed support will allow us to expand and deepen our work bringing together community development, public health, and healthcare to create prosperous and healthy neighborhoods across the country. The post Build Healthy Places Network Celebrates Continued Collaboration with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Catalyze Community-...| Build Healthy Places Network
This resource introduces strategies on understanding the local government landscape, building relationships steeped in trust, and bridging across divides to show the benefits of community-government partnerships.| Build Healthy Places Network
A Message from BHPN’s Co-Executive Directors Can you believe it’s already the end of 2024? It feels like just yesterday we were celebrating the start of a new year (and trying to remember if it was a leap year or not!). As 2024 draws to a close, we recognize the importance of pausing and reflecting on our work. Join us as we celebrate some highlights and look forward to building a healthier future together! The post 2024 Reflections: Impact, Growth, and Collaboration appeared first on Bui...| Build Healthy Places Network
The live conversation, which aired on November 18, 2024, delved into how partners can cultivate trust with Tribal and Native organizations, ensuring that efforts are rooted in the principles of Native self-determination. Ashley Hernandez, Research and Product Manager, at BHPN led the dynamic conversation with inspiring Native leaders and their partners who are leveraging multi-sector approaches to address the drivers of health. The post Self-Determination and Community Investment: How Native ...| Build Healthy Places Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The post Build Healthy Places Network Awards Five Community Development Organizations to Spearhead Community-Driven Investments for Racial Equity appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
The live conversation, which aired on March 29, 2024, explored how racial equity is understood in these two sectors and where public health and community development collaborations have been successful in improving population health and health equity and what it will take to move us forward. The post Building the Bridge: How Public Health and Community Development Can Work Together to Advance Shared Health and Racial Equity Goals appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The post Community Innovations for Racial Equity Advisory Council: Empowering Change, Transforming Communities appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The post Build Healthy Places Network Awarded $1.1 Million Grant from The Kresge Foundation to Advance Racial Equity in Community Investments appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Informed by our BIPOC-led Community Development Corporation partners, Build Healthy Places Network and Verge Impact Partners recognized the importance of developing a tool that aims to more effectively engage communities to identify data and evaluation approaches that prioritize and center residents’ voice and vision. The post Community-Driven Data and Evaluation Strategies to Transform Power and Place appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network’s Video Snapshots offer quick deep dives with experts from the community development, health, and finance sectors. Our current series focuses on multisector partnerships involving community development, healthcare, and health payors in California that are co-investing in projects that support people experiencing homelessness. The post Healthcare and Community Development: Creating Solutions Together to Solve Homelessness in California appeared first on Build H...| Build Healthy Places Network
The Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub is a ‘first stop for rural health information’ site, funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, it operates as a national clearinghouse on rural health issues. The site showcases a host of reliable tools and resources aimed at advancing health in rural communities. The post “Economic Development is Population Health”: A New Vision for Rural Health Leadership appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
BHPN Statement on ruling against Minority Business Development Agency The post Economic Prosperity is a Foundation for Health and Wellbeing in Communities. BHPN Statement on ruling against MBDA. appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Hospital closure is one of the biggest challenges that many rural communities face leaving residents unable to receive access to health care. Learn more about the details of this partnership and how two partners turned a shared need for healthcare access into a successful collaboration rooted in reciprocity and trust. The post Mackinac Straits Hospital and St. Ignace Tribal Health Clinic, St. Ignace, MI appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
The Health Action Plan was created to integrate evidence-based public health practices into the affordable housing development process to prioritize resident's needs and improve community health. The post A Year In Review: Top 5 Highlights from Build Healthy Places Network appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
On November 13, 2023, Build Healthy Places Network hosted a multisector interactive discussion and celebratory reception at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in partnership with the Center for Community Progress, Enterprise Community Partners, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Purpose Built Communities Foundation, and Reinvestment Fund. It aimed to provide public health and healthcare partners attending the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting an opportunity to meet commu...| Build Healthy Places Network
The Health Action Plan was created to integrate evidence-based public health practices into the affordable housing development process to prioritize resident's needs and improve community health. The post Forging Lasting Bonds: Creating Healthy Housing through the Health Action Plan appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
During Build Healthy Places Network’s upcoming Network Commons, we will discuss data collection and evaluation strategies that CDCs can incorporate in their work to advance racial equity efforts and determine how this approach can help demonstrate the holistic impact of their work, ultimately, leading to investment. The post Shifting Power to Communities Through the Use of Community-Driven Data appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network and our BIPOC-led Community Development Corporation partners recognize the importance of lifting up and implementing community-led racial healing models. Together we offer the REPAIR Framework for Community-Institution Solidarity in Racial Healing - to lift up racial healing as an actionable approach to shift power and center a community vision for health and equity. The post The REPAIR Framework for Community-Institution Solidarity in Healing appeared first on Bu...| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network’s Video Snapshots offer quick deep dives with experts from the community development, health, and finance sectors. Our current series uplifts practices that support community engagement processes and projects that are community-led and owned. Learn from practitioners from across sectors, who together are working to make neighborhoods healthier through centering the voices of residents. The post Shifting Investing Practices into Community Control appeared first o...| Build Healthy Places Network
Build Healthy Places Network’s Video Snapshots offer quick deep dives with experts from the community development, health, and finance sectors. Our current series uplifts practices that support community engagement processes and projects that are community-led and owned. Learn from practitioners from across sectors, who together are working to make neighborhoods healthier through centering the voices of residents. The post Healthy Neighborhoods Study: Participatory Action Research and a Com...| Build Healthy Places Network
Introduction The Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund II (HNEF II) is a novel financing approach demonstrating how intentional investments in a neighborhood’s built environment can be a powerful means to improve community health. The $42 million private equity fund provides patient, low-cost capital for the development of Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund II appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Our latest Community Close-up features the Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund, a $42 million private equity fund that invests in mixed-income, mixed-use real estate developments in areas that often endure significant health and economic inequities. The post The Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund II, New England, USA appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Overview Dorchester is the largest and one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Boston, MA. Fields Corner, Dorchester’s main commercial district, is a close-knit community made up of Vietnamese, African American, Latin, Irish, and Cape Verdean residents and businesses. The area boasts several amenities, including a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line station. It is also home to many community organizations committed to supporting the neighborhood and its residents. ...| Build Healthy Places Network
The Equitable Policy Processes tool helps coalitions embed equity at every stage of the policymaking process with actionable steps to share power, engage stakeholders, and operationalize equity through public policy. The post Equitable Policy Processes for Multisector Health Efforts appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network
Reflections from a Thought Leader Roundtable to bridge the gap between Public Health and Community Development sectors to advance health and racial equity. The post Public Health and Community Development Roundtable: Reflections on How Sectors Can Join Forces to Advance Health and Racial Equity appeared first on Build Healthy Places Network.| Build Healthy Places Network