Breathing Easy from Home to School: Fighting the Environmental Triggers of Childhood Asthma

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Offers a blueprint for what we all can do to make our children’s air safer and healthier; provides policy recommendations and effective strategies for reducing community factors that contribute to asthma development and that spark asthma attacks.

Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 America Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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This report, produced with Green for All, offers tangible, up-to-date information and ideas for using and securing recovery dollars to help expand opportunity in low-income communities and communities of color. The guide is a first step in what will be a vital nationwide effort to ensure the recovery package helps all communities rise stronger than ever from this economic crisis, and that community-based organizations are at the forefront in crafting a green, equitable recovery.

The Transportation Prescription: Bold New Ideas for Healthy, Equitable Transportation Reform

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Provides key policy and program recommendations that can improve health outcomes in vulnerable communities, create economic opportunity, and enhance environmental quality.

Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research

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Details the intersection of transportation, equity, and health, covering topics from public transportation, walking and bicycling, to safety and economic development, and highlights key policy solutions and provides background on the federal surface transportation policy.

Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland

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Shows that although our food system is unhealthy and unsustainable, successes driven by residents and advocates are cropping up  -- proving that the movement for equitable access to healthy food is gaining strength every day.

Inclusion in the Workforce: Positioning the Pittsburgh Region to Prosper and Compete

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Analyzes racial disparities in employment in the Pittsburgh region, reviews the critical role that a diverse workforce plays in improving economic competitiveness, and features numerous recommendations on how the Pittsburgh region can work to remove structural and attitudinal barriers to reduce its racial employment disparity.

Healthy Food, Healthy Communities - Expanded Version

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Helps advocates, policymakers, community-based organizations, residents, and other stakeholders replicate and create successful models for ensuring that all communities have access to healthy food and the wide range of benefits it brings.

Community Involvement in the Federal Healthy Start Program

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Provides a comprehensive new look at the role of community involvement in Healthy Start and presents study results showing that sustained community involvement significantly enriched programs.

Organized for Change: The Activist's Guide to Police Reform

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Contains strategies to help advocates move their police departments closer to a vision of community-centered policing.

Perspectives on Regionalism: Opportunities for Community-based Organizations to Advance Equity

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Captures an initial understanding of the national debate on regionalism and strategies as a way to begin development of a policy agenda that has equity at its core.

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