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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 &...
How Can We Lift Up the Connection Between Housing and Health?
While living in Pittsburgh in the 1960s, Dorothy Richardson recognized the impact housing and community development have on health. Richardson, a Black homemaker, lived in a neighborhood experiencing disinvestment and decline, at least partially due to policies like redlining. At the time, many cities like Pittsburgh thought urban renewal—or the complete demolishing of neighborhoods like...
How Communities Are Creating a Culture of Health and Advancing Equity
Since 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize has honored and elevated U.S. communities working at the forefront of advancing health, opportunity, and equity for all. Representing diverse places—from Allen County, Kansas to...
How community development organizations improve well-being in under-invested communities
By Sarah Norman and Alina Schnake-Mahl, NeighborWorks America
The great majority of America’s high-performing community development organizations (CDOs) are actively tackling health challenges in their communities. In a peer-reviewed paper published by the...
How Do You Ensure Everyone in Your Community is Counted in the 2020 Census?
Starting next month, homes across the country will start receiving invitations to complete the 2020 census and it’s vital that everyone is counted.
How Does Civic Participation Influence Health?
Evidence shows the more you get involved, the better your health.
How Healthy is Your Air?
Did you know more than 40 percent of people throughout the country live where pollution often makes the air too dangerous to breathe? Or that more than 44 million Americans live in an area burdened year-round by unhealthy levels of...
How Healthy is Your County? 2013 Rankings Released March 20
Are you ready? The 2013 County Health Rankings will be released on March 20, 2013. Now for the fourth year in a row, counties can see a snapshot of how healthy their residents are by comparing their overall health and the factors that influence their health with other counties in their state. This allows communities to see county-by-county where they are doing well...
How Lasting Change Happens: From Food Pantries to Policies
Creating enduring change has proven a challenge for countless communities nationwide. Children’s First Executive Director Allison Jordan from 2014 RWJF Culture of Health Prize community, Buncombe County, NC, joined County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program staff to share how an emphasis on advocacy brought desired change to her community. Buncombe County...
How Should I Make a Business Plan?
This tool (from Community Tool Box) provides guidance on developing a business plan, including what it should contain, how it should be written, and how it should be packaged.