Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America

Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America (the Springboard) is a joint project of the CDC Foundation and Well Being Trust, coordinated with Community Initiatives and ReThink Health. A guide developed by more than 100 people, organizations, and communities, the Springboard is a practical resource to help communities secure the vital conditions that all people and places need to thrive: a thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, and belonging and civic muscle.

Throughout its development, a diverse set of resources, tools, stories, perspectives, policies, and guides were identified as useful in moving towards the goal of equitable well-being. The Springboard contains four sections to help changemakers spring into action:

• The Introduction includes the preface and Legacy Moment 2020. These sections frame the Springboard and its context, introduce the vital conditions, and offer a set of guiding principles.

• Changing Course presents 11 summaries focused on the vital conditions, followed by separate summaries that examine place, faith, investment, and measurement. Deep Dives are paper-length explanations of ideas touched on in the Changing Course summaries.

• Paths to Renewal builds on the previous sections by presenting actionable ideas for national renewal.

• Thriving Movement concludes the main narrative by looking at where we go from here.

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