Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies
Tackling Difficult-to-Crack Healthy Eating Policies was held September 29-30, 2015 in Sacramento, California.
Step It Up! The Surgeon General’s Call to Action on Walking and Walkable Communities
This webinar discussed what the Surgeon General hopes to accomplish with his Call to Action, what the recommendations are and the science behind them, what the Call to Action means for health funders, and how grantmakers can play a role in the work ahead.
Help All Children Grow Up at a Healthy Weight
Nearly a decade ago, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation set an ambitious goal for itself and for the nation: reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Advancing Indigenous Farmworker Health Care
This webinar explored collaborative partnerships and the integrative work happening across multiple sectors, which is helping increase the access of health care for farmworker communities.
Using Digital Technology to Promote Healthy Food Access
This webinar explored how digital technologies can improve health outcomes by increasing consumer knowledge and empowering consumer decisionmaking.
Philanthropy and Community Development: Partners In Health
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are funding projects across the nation to support health care centers and clinics, grocery stores with healthy food options, and healthy housing. Read this Issue Focus on how CDFIs are a valuable potential partner for health philanthropy.
Improving Access to Healthy Food in Rural Communities
During this webinar funders learned about strategies to improve access to healthy food in rural communities, ranging from partnerships with community development finance institutions to local policy change efforts.
Constructing Healthy Spaces through Multisector Partnerships
This webinar focused on the many different roles the land development and real estate sector can play, the ways health funders can effectively engage with them, and how the evidence-based strategies and recommendations found in the recently released Building Healthy Places Toolkit can be implemented in your own community.
Kids and Drinking Water: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
Increasing kids’ consumption of drinking water supports their health and learning. Yet most children do not drink enough. There are many challenges to achieving the goal of all children drinking the daily recommended amount of water. This Views from the Field article discusses the policy framework and ways funders can help ensure access to safe drinking water for all children in the United States.
National Green Schoolyards Summit
The National Green Schoolyards Summit was held from May 12-13, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.
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