Tools & Resources
Mapping Life Expectancy
This project, run by the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health, has created a series of maps that prominently display life expectancy values alongside common geographic landmarks such as subway stops and highway exits. This is an example of how community development and health professionals can team up to tell powerful stories about social determinants of health...
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 &...
What Works for Health
This tool (from CHR&R) can to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally.
Choosing Your Strategy
This tool (from CHR&R) provides suggested actions based on What Works for Health evidence ratings.
Website and Newsletter Templates
This tool includes language to help you publicize the County Health Rankings on your websites and in your newsletters.