Tools & Resources
Building Healthy Places Toolkit
The Building Healthy Places Toolkit, from Urban Land Institute, includes 21 evidence-based recommendations related to physical activity, food and water, and the environment. This tool can be found in the Community Development guide under...
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...
County Health Rankings Press Release, March 25, 2015
County Health Rankings show declines in premature death rates, but where you live matters to your health. It can be found in For the Media.
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.