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Build Healthy Places Network Launches Community Innovations for Racial Equity

Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) is launching Community Innovations for Racial Equity to build BIPOC-led community development capacity, support innovative community ownership models, and address the barriers within community development and health partnerships to effectively propel racial equity.


Call for applications – Join Community Innovations for Racial Equity!

BHPN, with funding from The Kresge Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation has launched Community Innovations for Racial Equity (CIRE) to build BIPOC-led community development capacity, support innovative community ownership models, and address the barriers within community development and health partnerships to effectively propel racial equity. An RFP was just released, and applications are due Friday, March 18. CIRE is an 18-month program available for up to ten eligible organizations motivated to engage healthcare partners to advance racial equity. Selected organizations will be awarded up to $40,000 to support staff or a consultant to lead healthcare engagement, $60,000 of in-kind technical support provided by the BHPN, and facilitated connections to a national network of peer support. Please visit the RFP webpage to learn more about eligibility guidelines and award commitments.


Seeking input from BIPOC-led Community Development Corporations

BHPN wants to hear from BIPOC-led community development corporations (CDCs) about how they are engaging with the health sector to better support partnerships that advance racial equity. Our goal is to uncover the needs relative to challenges and impacts emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic among these partnerships. Whether your CDC has never thought about partnering with healthcare, has made it a priority, or falls somewhere in between, we want to hear from you. The results of this survey will inform tools and capacity building resources for the field.

The results will be shared in the aggregate – individual responses will be kept anonymous.