“Saving the Cultural Legacy of the Mission”: Preventing Cultural Displacement in San Francisco’s Mission District
By Francis Yu and Jeremy Liu
The Para la Mission mural located on 19th Street and Mission Street, shortly after artist Mel Waters repaired damages from vandalism. (Francis Yu 2018)
A jarring splash of white paint defaced an iconic community mural after it was vandalized | Read more >
Kentucky Communities Unlock their Cultural Wealth to Lead the Way Forward
By Abbie Langston and Lorrie Chang
Photo Credit: Malcolm Wilson, Humans of Central Appalachia
Letcher County, Kentucky is at the very heart of Appalachia, a region as rich in history and culture as in natural resources. Over the last 10 years, the county has lost more | Read more >
Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent control to protect renters from skyrocketing rents and displacement. Rent control has tremendous payoff: if the rent control policies being debated right now in six states and two cities become reality, 12.7 million renter households will be stabilized. If adopted by states nationwide, 42...
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This is how "Winning on Equity" happens!
Last Thursday, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey demonstrated the meaning of radical imagination by putting forward a legislative framework to confront climate change and uplift the lives and | Read more >
Good Food Here Store Owner Guide
An initiative of the Ohio Department of Health, Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) is committed to preventing and reducing chronic disease statewide. Through cross-sector collaboration, CHC activates communities to improve access to and affordability of healthy food, increase opportunities for physical activity, and assure tobacco-free living where Ohioans live, work and play. By implementing...
| More >Good Food Here Coordinator Guide
An initiative of the Ohio Department of Health, Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) is committed to preventing and reducing chronic disease statewide. Through cross-sector collaboration, CHC activates communities to improve access to and affordability of healthy food, increase opportunities for physical activity, and assure tobacco-free living where Ohioans live, work and play. By implementing...
| More >VIDEO: Creating Healthy Communities Program's Good Food Here Initiative
An initiative of the Ohio Department of Health, Creating Healthy Communities (CHC) is committed to preventing and reducing chronic disease statewide. Through cross-sector collaboration, CHC activates communities to improve access to and affordability of healthy food, increase opportunities for physical activity, and assure tobacco-free living where Ohioans live, work and play. By implementing...
| More >Innovations among Food Banks in the United States
This new report by Reinvestment Fund and Bank of America looks at how food banks are adopting a variety of approaches within each of these categories to feed the hungry and permanently end food insecurity.
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