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Earlier this year, BHPN surveyed BIPOC-led Community Development Corporations (CDCs) across the country to learn more about how they are engaging with the health sector to advance racial equity. We share some of our key findings.
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Ela Rausch, Ph.D. and Kristen Juliar, M.A. share their findings after speaking with 11 State Offices of Rural Health and 10 CDFI and community development intermediary organizations that serve communities in the West, Midwest, Deep South, Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, and Northern New England to answer one primary question: How can we get more financial capital into rural areas?
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Meeting the Aug 5th, 2022 deadline, Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) submitted comments to the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in relation to a proposed rulemaking around the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
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BHPN's Colleen Flynn co-authors an article exploring the ways in which funders can make the most of their role in advancing large-scale, transformative impact!
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Elana Brochin, program director for health equity at Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations joined Build Healthy Places Network as a guest on our panel “multi-sector rural health partnerships for equitable recovery” at the National Rural Health Association’s annual conference, May 10-13, 2022. She shares some reflections on her experience there.
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Build Healthy Places Network is thrilled to announce the 10 BIPOC-led Community Development Corporations that have been selected for our 2022 Community Innovations for Racial Equity (CIRE) Initiative peer learning cohort funded by The Kresge Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
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For decades, healthcare and community development have been working in the same places, sometimes with the same people, and often not together. Community development organizations with the greatest amount of capacity and support have been most able to access the resources and network needed to accelerate health partnerships. Meanwhile, many smaller and lower-resourced community development corporations are excluded from the national dialogue, resulting in less access to the resources needed to successfully engage healthcare investment partners in the social determinants of health (SDOH). Community Innovations, was a 18-month BHPN initiative funded by The Kresge Foundation that launched in 2019 with the aim of connecting local organizations to other peer organizations; facilitating healthcare-community development partnerships through access to tools, resources and capacity and the Network’s understanding of how best to support community development organizations’ cross-sector efforts.
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