In rural Kansas, the Kansas Health Foundation is supporting five community coalitions to build more meaningful relationships with community residents across racial justice and economic lines in order to better identify and address community priorities and needs, and begin to develop resident-led food systems efforts.

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In Greater Kansas City, community organizers are engaging neighborhood residents to gather stories and policy priorities to shape the regional discourse around food access and food security while artists are creating works that challenge pervasive racialized narratives about government food programs.

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In California’s San Joaquin Valley, over 150 community partners and funders are working together to build and advance a racial and health equity agenda based on the priorities of community members.

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In Chicago, a network of neighborhood groups is challenging the combined forces of neglect and gentrification pressuring Black and Brown communities to leave valuable neighborhoods near transit hubs.

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The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo is working alongside their grassroots partners to apply a racial equity analysis and support community organizing to elevate the voices and experiences of community residents of color and address lead in housing.

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From the Gulf Coast to the Northeastern reaches of the state, the Foundation for Louisiana’s TOGETHER initiative supports community power by training community residents most impacted by structural racism to advocate for policy solutions to address climate change, community development, and more.

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Beyond Recovery presents solutions to keep Santa Fe families housed through the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. It describes 15 actions the city can take to create a more equitable housing system for all residents. It charts the immediate steps necessary to stop current evictions and prevent a flood of evictions as local, state, and federal eviction moratoria lift; codify tenant protections for the long term, and invest in a long-term equitable recovery that addresses the structural roots of our housing crisis.

This report is a collaboration between PolicyLink; Chainbreaker Collective; and Homes For All, a project of Right To The City Alliance. It is the third in a series on evictions in the Covid-19 era; the previous two reports were written as collaborations between Human Impact Partners and Chainbreaker Collective.

Creating healthy and sustainable communities of opportunity requires changing systems and structures to center the priorities and well-being of low-income communities of color. This report chronicles the story of how the Convergence Partnership, after more than 10 years into its tenure, learned to lean into the leadership of local advocates and embrace the power of grassroots organizing. It illustrates how a small and “risky” investment in an early-stage organizing effort supported the priorities and needs of low-income people and communities of color across California. Drawing from a series of interviews with equity advocates and organizers in California, as well as affiliated funders with deep experience in supporting grassroots advocacy, this report includes recommendations for other funders seeking ways to strategically advance health equity through policy and environmental change. Download the report.