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National Organizations with Local Connections
These groups may have deep connections in your community. Additionally, many of these networks will have resources that help you think about building your own network.
National Quality Forum
This organization is a nonprofit organization that improves the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach...
National Quality Strategy Released: Healthy People/Healthy Communities One of Three Main Aims
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to establish a National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care (the National Quality Strategy) that sets priorities to guide this effort and includes a strategic plan for how to achieve it. A new report describes the initial Strategy and plan for implementation with three broad aims to be used to guide and assess local, State, and national efforts to improve the quality of health care:
National Rural Funders Collaborative
This organization is working together to create and provide a “gathering space” for small and middle-sized funders—community foundations, family foundations and others—working in and supporting rural communities and regions. It can be found in the Philanthropy and Investors...
Navigating the Changing Landscape: Health Educators Respond to the Changing NC Population
On October 12, Angela Russell, the Community Engagement Lead for the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, presented a national perspective of the Rankings at the North Carolina Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education’s Annual Meeting and learned how three of the state’s counties used the Rankings to improve health.
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Neighborhood Funders Group
This organization is a membership association of grantmakers who support social justice and social change and work to improve the economic and social fabric of urban and rural low to moderate income communities. This resource can be found in the Philanthropy and Investors guide under...
NeighborWorks America
NeighborWorks America highlights training and resources available to support government leaders in tackling some of the nation's biggest housing and community development challenges. It can be found in the Government guide under...
New 2014 County Health Rankings Are Here – How Healthy Is Your County?
A collaborative project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI), the new 2014 County Health Rankings are available today. The Rankings...