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

Building Blocks Podcast: Disaster Recovery and Resilience Planning

Story - Audio

No Place Like Home: The Hostess With the Toastess

Story - Audio

15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?

Story - Audio

Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens

Story - Audio

Building Blocks Podcast: Healthy Solutions for Affordable Housing

Story - Audio

Unsung Stewards Podcast

Story - Audio

Not It!

Story - Audio

Is America Possible?

Story - Audio

Three Miles

Story - Audio

How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations

Story - Audio

Going Big: Harlem Renaissance

Story - Audio

Making School Budgets Whole and Equitable During and After COVID-19

Resource - Blog

Coronavirus Response: "I Don't Have the Words...I'll Just Start Crying"

Resource - Blog

Transit Is Essential: 2.8 Million U.S. Essential Workers Ride Transit to Their Jobs

Resource - Blog

A Living Wage for Healthcare Workers Is Essential to Achieve Health Equity

Resource - Blog

America's Unfair Rules of the Road

Resource - Blog

Will the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan Address Structural Inequality?

Resource - Blog

Published on 04/14/2021

Communities RISE Together: Building Belonging and Civic Muscle Through Community Vaccine Mobilization

Resource - Blog

Speaking Up Against Discrimination and Racism in the Workplace

Resource - Blog

Coronavirus Response: "First Responders for Education"

Resource - Blog

Advocating for Racial Equity in Our Schools

Resource - Blog

Insight Spotlight Series: Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions

Resource - Blog

Libraries Will Lead the Equitable Recovery

Resource - Blog

The American Rescue Plan Act: Benchmarking for Success

Resource - Blog

A New "New Deal" for Education: Top 10 Policy Moves for States in the COVID 2.0 Era

Resource - Blog

Helping Residents "Buy Back the Block" with American Rescue Plan Funds

Resource - Blog

Published on 05/25/2021

Coronavirus Response: “First Responders for Education”

Resource - Blog

Toxic Inequality: Race, Mobility, Wealth and Politics in Today’s America

Resource - Blog

Final Rule on ARPA SLFRF Grants: 10 Things for City Leaders to Know

Resource - Blog

Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan

Resource - Blog

In the Fallout of the Pandemic, Community Schools Show a Way Forward for Education

Resource - Blog

Learning The Lessons of Tobacco: A Public Health Approach To The Opioid Settlements

Resource - Blog

Published on 09/26/2019

Coronavirus Response: “I Don’t Have the Words...I’ll Just Start Crying”

Resource - Blog

Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent

Resource - Blog

Reopening Our Schools

Resource - Blog

Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities

Resource - Book

Looking Back to Move Forward: Resolving Health & Environmental Crises

Resource - Book

Health Literacy and Older Adults: Reshaping the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop

Resource - Book

An Introduction to Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

Story - Original

Published on 09/19/2023

Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Advances Success for First Generation College Students

Story - Original

Published on 01/22/2019

All-America City Award Finalists Stewardship in Action: Muncie, Indiana

Story - Original

Published on 08/23/2020

Multisolving 101: Co-Creating Vital Conditions for Thriving Together

Story - Original

American Rescue Plan 101: A Call for Equitable Recovery and Systems Renewal

Story - Original

Bringing the Vital Conditions to Life: Reliable Transportation

Story - Original

Achieving Equitable Outcomes for All

Story - Original

Bringing the Vital Conditions to Life: Lifelong Learning

Story - Original

Published on 11/01/2019

7 Ways Spatial Inequality Compromises Health and Well-Being

Story - Original

Health Equity and COVID-19

Story - Original

All-America City Award Finalists Stewardship in Action: Pitt County, North Carolina

Story - Original

Published on 09/22/2020

The Science of Thriving

Story - Original

Food Procurement as an Opportunity to Improve Local Food Systems

Story - Original

Faith Community Health: Integrating Faith and Health for Improved Quality of Life

Story - Original

Published on 12/04/2018

American Rescue Plan in Action: Leveraging Flexible Funding and Community Engagement for Equitable Recovery

Story - Original

Adverse Childhood Experiences – Trauma in Children Across the Nation

Story - Original

Published on 12/19/2017

Bringing the Vital Conditions to Life: Belonging & Civic Muscle

Story - Original

WIN Pacesetter: Advancing Intergenerational Well-Being in Fox Cities, Wisconsin

Story - Original

Published on 12/11/2019

All-America City Award Finalists Stewardship in Action: Rancho Cucamonga, California

Story - Original

Published on 09/20/2020

ExploreMoHealth: An Example of How One State is Taking Health Data to the Next Level

Story - Original

Published on 04/10/2018

The Surgeon General Connects Community Health and Economic Prosperity

Story - Original

Implementing Four Principles for a Resilient, Equitable Recovery

Resource - Guide/handbook

Strategies for Effectively Allocating Opioid Settlement Funds

Resource - Guide/handbook

The Good Food Purchasing Program: A Roadmap for the Post-Pandemic Food System We Need

Resource - Guide/handbook

A Practitioner's Guide to Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease

Resource - Guide/handbook

10 Priorities for Advancing Racial Equity Through the American Rescue Plan: A Guide for City and County Policymakers

Resource - Guide/handbook

For Love of Country: A Path for the Federal Government to Advance Racial Equity

Resource - Guide/handbook

The African American Financial Capability Initiative: An Implementation Blueprint

Resource - Guide/handbook

Joint Venture Guidebook: A Resource for Developing Affordable and Supportive Housing

Resource - Guide/handbook

Racial Equity: Getting to Results

Resource - Guide/handbook

COVID-19 and Race: Principles for a Common-Sense, Street-Smart Recovery: Complete Set

Resource - Guide/handbook

Pandemic Guide For Real Estate Managers

Resource - Guide/handbook

ARP Toolkit Guidance on Community Engagement

Resource - Guide/handbook

Emergency Stabilization & Economic Recovery Recommendations

Resource - Guide/handbook

Racial Equity Impact Assessment

Resource - Guide/handbook

Health and Well-being Measurement Approach and Assessment Guide

Resource - Guide/handbook

Stewarding Regional Health Transformation: A Guide for Changemakers

Resource - Guide/handbook

Mayors Guide: Accelerating Gender Equality

Resource - Guide/handbook

Healthy Neighborhoods Investments: A Policy Scan and Strategy Map

Resource - Guide/handbook

Start Us Up: America’s New Business Plan

Resource - Guide/handbook

The Science of Early Childhood Development

Resource - Guide/handbook

Impact of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships on Costs in an Urban Academic Medical Center

Resource - Journal Article

Which Priorities for Health and Well-Being Stand Out After Accounting for Tangled Threats and Costs? Simulating Potential Intervention Portfolios in Large Urban Counties

Resource - Journal Article

From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

Resource - Journal Article

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Life Opportunities: Shifting the Narrative

Resource - Journal Article

AIMS: A Care Coordination Model to Improve Patient Health Outcomes

Resource - Journal Article

Exposure to Air Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality in the United States: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study

Resource - Journal Article

Failing Another National Stress Test on Health Disparities

Resource - Journal Article

Healthy Places Index Policy Guide - Homeownership

Resource - Policy Brief

Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems - EAT Forum

Resource - Report

After Katrina: Shared Challenges for Rebuilding Together

Resource - Report

ReThink Health Action Learning Synthesis: Evaluation of the Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions Project

Resource - Report

Progress Along the Pathway for Transforming Regional Health: A Pulse Check on Multi-Sector Partnerships

Resource - Report

Projected Deaths of Despair from COVID-19

Resource - Report

Advancing Health and Wealth Integration in the Earliest Years

Resource - Report

COVID-19 and 21st Century Public Ownership

Resource - Report

Understanding and Improving Financial Health in America

Resource - Report

The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2020

Resource - Report

Amplifying Stewardship: Characteristics and Trends Stewards Consider When Expanding Equitable Well-Being

Resource - Report

Community Benefit Report: Overview of Hospital Charitable Activities

Resource - Report

Promising Models for Preparing a Diverse, High-Quality Early Childhood Workforce

Resource - Report

A Downpayment on the Divide: Steps to Ease Racial Inequality in Homeownership

Resource - Report

Repair Priorities

Resource - Report

Creating a Diverse Student Success Infrastructure: The Key to Catalyzing Cultural Change for Today’s Student

Resource - Report

Published on 09/01/2019

Mapping Civic Measurement: How Are We Assessing Readiness and Opportunities for an Engaged Citizenry?

Resource - Report

Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide

Resource - Report

A Green New Deal for City and Suburban Transportation

Resource - Report

What if Progress Meant Well-Being for All?

Resource - Report

Mental Health, Higher Education, and COVID-19: Strategies for Leaders to Support Campus Well-being

Resource - Report

Published on 04/08/2020

Developing a Framework To Measure the Health Equity Impact of Accountable Communities For Health

Resource - Report

The Urgent Call for a U.S. National Food Strategy

Resource - Report

Inequitable Opportunity to Learn: Student Access to Certified and Experienced Teachers

Resource - Report

The Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism

Resource - Report

On the Path to Health Equity: Building Capacity to Measure Health Outcomes in Community Development

Resource - Report

Deeper Learning Networks: Taking Student-Centered Learning and Equity to Scale

Resource - Report

Black Maternal Health: Reducing Inequities Through Community Collaboration

Resource - Report

Preserving Naturally-Occurring Housing Affordability in Metro Atlanta Neighborhoods

Resource - Report

Leveraging Data on the Social Determinants of Health

Resource - Report

A Home for All: Healthy and Affordable Housing Policy Recommendations for Thriving Communities

Resource - Report

From Upside Down to Right-Side Up

Resource - Report

Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap

Resource - Report

Measuring What Matters in Agriculture and Food Systems

Resource - Report

Advancing a Well-Being Narrative

Resource - Report

United States Prosperity Index 2020

Resource - Report

The Congestion Con

Resource - Report

The Crisis and the Opportunity: Our Food System in 2020

Resource - Report

Published on 07/01/2020

Investing with Purpose: Preserving a Neighborhood Legacy - The 2019 Social Return on Investment Report

Resource - Report

The State of Transportation and Health Equity

Resource - Report

Basic Needs: Freedom from Trauma, Violence, and Addiction

Resource - Report

The Ever-Growing Gap

Resource - Report

The Best Complete Streets Initiatives of 2017

Resource - Report

Consumer Debt Primer

Resource - Report

The Road to Zero Wealth

Resource - Report

The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Households' Financial Stability

Resource - Report

A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity

Resource - Report

Published on 07/01/2020

Measuring Student Socioeconomic Status: Toward a Comprehensive Approach

Resource - Report

Making ESSA's Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap

Resource - Report

US Financial Health Pulse: 2019 Trends Report

Resource - Report

Priorities for Spending the American Rescue Plan's State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Resource - Report

ReThink Health Action Learning Synthesis: Evaluation of the Hospital Systems in Transition Project

Resource - Report

Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity

Resource - Report

Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Five Years of Learning from Communities and Coordinating Federal Investments

Resource - Report

Sustainable Investments in Health: Prevention and Wellness Funds

Resource - Report

Engaging People with Lived Experience Toolkit

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

Thriving Campuses: A Campus Guide for Well-Being, Equity and Thriving Together

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

How Can You Create Your American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Recovery Roadmap?

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

In the Eye of the Storm: A People's Guide to Transforming Crisis & Advancing Equity in the Disaster Continuum

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

Thriving Campuses Toolkit

Tool - Toolkit/toolbox

Published on 01/05/2022

Schoolyards Up from the Children & Nature Network

Story - Video

The COVID-19 Crisis is a Chance to do Capitalism Differently

Story - Video

Smells Like Progress: Growing up in Cancer Alley by Dr. Beverly Wright

Story - Video

Bolstering Healthy and Thriving Communities: the Importance of Policy, Civic Muscle and Belonging

Story - Video

A Complex Portrait

Resource - Webinar

The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment

Resource - Website/webpage

Undoing Racism by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

Resource - Website/webpage

Healing the Nation: Advancing Mental Health and Addiction Policy

Resource - Website/webpage

Population Health Resources

Resource - Website/webpage

Infectious Disease Toolkit for CoCs

Resource - Website/webpage

Master Settlement Agreement

Resource - Website/webpage

The Children & Nature Network Research Library

Resource - Website/webpage

Coronavirus Disease 2019: Older Adults

Resource - Website/webpage

Changing Narratives and Moving Mindsets

Resource - Website/webpage

Rural Health Services

Resource - Website/webpage

Imagine Fox Cities - Introduction

Resource - Website/webpage

Providence CHNA and CHIP Reports

Resource - Website/webpage

Food Systems Finance Resource Center

Resource - Website/webpage

Youth Outdoor Policy Playbook

Resource - Website/webpage

Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience

Resource - Website/webpage

Combatting Authoritarianism: The Skills and Infrastructure Needed To Organize Across Difference

Story - Written

Why American Churches Are Struggling to Get by during the Pandemic.

Story - Written

Learning in nature: Washington becomes first in the country to license outdoor preschools

Story - Written

Leveraging Federal Funds and Intermediaries to Build Equitable Cities

Story - Written

Published on 09/28/2021

Research Finds Inflammatory Connection for High Cholesterol, Suggests Possible Combo of Medications

Story - Written

Homeownership and the Racial Wealth Divide

Story - Written

The Coming Mental-Health Crisis

Story - Written

The Time to Reinvent our Social Institutions is Now

Story - Written

Published on 06/30/2020

Commentary: The Health Consequences of the Affordable Housing Crisis

Story - Written

The Common Market is Donating $3.9 Million of Fresh Produce to Locals Facing Food Insecurity

Story - Written

How Civic Infrastructure Grows the Local Economy

Story - Written

Published on 08/24/2022

Investing in Youth

Story - Written

These mayors are leading the way to a fair and green recovery from COVID-19

Story - Written

Published on 07/15/2020

UAMS-UA Research Yields Long-lasting Disinfectant Spray for Surfaces

Story - Written

The Many Fronts of COVID-19 Related Housing Needs and Measures

Story - Written

Partnering with CDFIs: Catalysts for Sustainable Community Development

Story - Written

American Rescue Plan Details: Tax Credit, COVID-19 Vaccine Funds : Coronavirus Updates

Story - Written

Published on 03/11/2021

The Doctor-Botanist Couple Healing a Community in the Rural South

Story - Written

When Food Stamps Pass As Tickets To Better Health

Story - Written

Published on 02/06/2018

Op-ed: With Food Insecurity on the Rise, Nutrition Incentives Should Be More Equitable

Story - Written

Worry Less About Crumbling Roads, More About Crumbling Libraries

Story - Written

What Protests Can (And Can’t) Do

Story - Written

Published on 06/08/2020

Healthy Meals on a Budget: Nutrition that Works for Real Families

Story - Written

Published on 10/23/2018

Housing Policy Must Change in Wake of COVID-19

Story - Written

Major Health Care Players Collaborate to Rethink How They Invest in Washtenaw County's Well-Being

Story - Written

Digital Health Visits Help Regional Campuses Meet COVID-19 Challenges

Story - Written

Why Affordable Housing Isn't More Affordable

Story - Written

The American Rescue Plan's Secret Ingredient? Flexible State and Local Aid.

Story - Written

Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too.

Story - Written

Published on 07/17/2020

National Civic Review: Thriving Together Pathways to Renewal

Story - Written

How Should Cities Spend Billions in Aid? Ask People Who Live There

Story - Written

Published on 08/05/2021

Texas Clinics Busting Traditional Silos Of Mental And Physical Health Care

Story - Written

College Students: Getting Enough Sleep is Vital to Academic Success

Story - Written

A Vital Condition to Well-Being: Reliable Transportation

Story - Written

Framework Brief on PEAR and The Clover Model

Resource

Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants

Resource

Housing and School Partnership on the Point-In-Time Count

Resource

Household Financial Security Framework

Resource

The Color of Student Debt: Implications of Federal Loan Program Reforms for Black Students and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Resource

Faith-Health Collaboration to Improve Population Health

Resource

Infectious Disease Toolkit For Continuums of Care: Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease For People Experiencing Homelessness

Resource

Developing a Financing System to Support Public Health Infrastructure

Resource

Analyzing the Landscape of Savings Solutions for Low-Income Families Part 1: The Savings Crisis and the Need for Holistic Solutions

Resource

The Promise of the American Rescue Plan: Funding Opportunities to Reduce Violence, Meet the Needs of Underserved Communities, and Promote a Vision for Shared Safety

Resource

The Clover Model: A Developmental Process Theory of Social-Emotional Development

Resource

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Guidance for Multifamily Owners and Stakeholders

Resource

Beyond the Food Pantry: Supporting Community College Students with Affordable Housing Vouchers

Resource

The Most Prosperous and Distressed States and Counties in the U.S.

Resource

Pathways to Population Health Case Studies

Resource

Organizing Around Vital Conditions Moves The Social Determinants Agenda Into Wider Action

Resource

The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth

Resource

Practitioner Series

Resource

National Civic Review Winter 2021: Volume 109, Number 4: Paths to Renewal

Resource

SolutionsU

Tool

FCC Fixed Broadband Deployment

Tool

American Rescue Plan Economic Development Administration (EDA) Funding and Grant Checklist

Resource

Community Resilience: Cross-Sector Collaboratives and their Role in Responding to Crisis

Resource

Public

Resource

Reliable Transportation as a Vital Condition

Resource

NACCHO’s 2019 Profile Study: Changes in Local Health Department Workforce and Finance Capacity Since 2008

Resource

The Impact of the Coronavirus on Local Food Insecurity

Resource

Piecing it Together: A Framing Playbook for Affordable Housing Advocates

Resource

Health Equity Principles for State and Local Leaders in Responding to, Reopening and Recovering from COVID-19

Resource

Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease within Shelters

Resource

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Frequently Asked Questions

Resource

Reopening Schools in the Context of COVID-19: Health and Safety Guidelines From Other Countries

Resource

Overview for America's Counties U.S. Treasury Interim Final Rule and Guidance for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Resource

Funding Matrix: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) Programs that can Support Civil Access to Justice

Resource

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: Summary

Resource

First Book Trauma Toolkit

Resource

Environmental Scan of Existing Domains and Indicators to Inform Development of a New Measurement Framework for Assessing the Health and Vitality of Communities

Resource

Meaningful Work & Wealth as a Vital Condition

Resource

Recalibrating for Caregivers: Recognizing the Public Health Challenge

Resource

Humane Housing as a Vital Condition

Resource

Public Health Infrastructure Sign-On

Resource

The Impact of Coronavirus on Food Insecurity

Resource

Pain in the Nation Update: While Deaths from Alcohol, Drugs, and Suicide Slowed Slightly in 2017, Rates Are Still at Historic Highs

Resource

What Cities Are Doing to Stall Evictions and Foreclosures

Resource

Belonging & Civic Muscle as a Vital Condition

Resource

Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century

Resource

American Rescue Plan Act

Resource

Regional Transformation Strategy Assessment Tool

Resource

Basic Needs for Health & Safety as a Vital Condition

Resource

The Impact of the Coronavirus on Child Food Insecurity

Resource

Leveraging Resources Through Community Schools: The Role of Technical Assistance

Resource

A Brief History of Stewarding Health, Wealth, and Well-Being

Resource

Published on 10/06/2019

Closing the Divide: Creating Equitable, Inclusive, and Affordable Communities

Resource

Lifelong Learning as a Vital Condition

Resource

American Rescue Plan Act Funding Breakdown

Resource

Thriving Natural World as a Vital Condition

Resource

Title-By-Title Summary of the American Rescue Plan

Resource

Place-Based Investing: Creating Sustainable Returns and Strong Communities

Resource

Barriers to Success: Housing Insecurity for U.S. College Students

Resource

Employment and Disconnection Among Teens and Young Adults: The Role of Place, Race, and Education

Resource

Fact Sheet: The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Will Deliver $350 Billion for State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Governments to Respond to the COVID-19 Emergency and Bring Back Jobs

Resource

Stewards' Pathway

Tool

Dangerous by Design

Tool

Assessment Tools in Informal STEM (ATIS)

Tool

Stewards' Resources

Tool