Tools & Resources
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health outlines key steps toward building healthy communities – rural, urban, and anywhere in between – along with some specific policies and programs that can improve health. This report highlights selected strategies from What Works for Health.
Health Gaps Reports
These reports (from CHR&R) help answer the question: Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? The reports explore how wide gaps are throughout each state and what is driving those differences.
Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens
Blending experience and candid advice from grantmakers, this guide (from GrantCraft) explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation. This tool can be found in the...
Greater Fall River 2014-2019 Action Plan for Improving Health
This Action Plan illustrates how 2013 RWJF Culture of Health Prize-winner, Fall River, MA Partners for a Healthy Community uses the County Health Rankings model as an organizing tool for their community plan. A link to this plan can be found in the...
How Can We Help Our Grantees Strengthen Their Capacity for Evaluation?
This tool highlights suggestions from foundations, including assessing a foundation's own capacity for evaluation; encouraging a sense of ownership among grantees around the evaluation process; and combining group-based and one-on-one training. This link can be found in the Philanthropy &...
Community Health Improvement Navigator
The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator (CHI Navigator) is a website for people who lead or participate in CHI work within hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, and other community organizations. It offers community stakeholders expert-vetted tools and resources for: Depicting visually the who, what, where, and how of improving community health...
Request for Letters of Intent from The New York Community Trust
This initiative, a partnership between the New York State Health Foundation and The New York Community Trust, along with a Call for Proposals from the NYS Health Foundation, highlights both the Rankings data and emphasizes the many factors that influence health. It can be found in the...
Nominal Group Technique
This tool (from ASQ) is a structured method for group brainstorming that encourages contributions from everyone.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) connects local organizations and community leaders with resources to revitalize neighborhoods and improve quality of life. They offer a useful toolkit including loans, grants, equity investments and on-the-ground experience in some of the most vulnerable communities. This resource can be found in the...
New York State Health Foundation Call for Proposals
This example Call for Proposals from the New York State Health Foundation, along with a complementary initiative in partnership with the New York Community Trust, highlights both the Rankings data and emphasizes the many factors that influence health. It can be found in...