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Shift Gathers Health Leaders To Explore Participatory Investing Tools and Practices

Check out our tools to put co-design and community governance into practice!

1 July
/ Community Governance, Community Health Equity, Participatory Investing, Trust Building

How can we better support leaders serving refugee and immigrant communities?

Check out our recent discussion for the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) annual conference!

26 March
/ Community Health Equity

Nature of Trust Launch

Check out our recent discussion for the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) annual conference!

28 January
/ Trust Building

Shift Gathering

Check out our recent discussion for the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) annual conference!

22 August
/ Participatory Investing

Shift and BARHII Collaborate to Discuss Participatory Investing

Check out our recent discussion for the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) annual conference!

30 June
/ Participatory Investing

Continuing Our Journey with Real People’s Fund: Strengthening Community Governance and Power

We’re excited to share that we recently completed our second annual strategy retreat with the REAL People’s Fund (RPF)

6 March
/ Community Governance

Applying nature’s wisdom: trust building in health equity spaces

Building trust takes willingness. The perceived benefits of engaging with another in trust-building must outweigh the perceived risks.

29 January
/ Trust Building

Crossing the bridge toward a community vision for health investments

Shift gathered our Community Advisory Council, a group of peer leaders collaborating on a new vision for leveraging health system investment capital, to discuss opportunities for participatory, community-governed funding.

20 November
/ Health System Transformation

Exploring lessons from nature for trust-building in health equity efforts

Shift was recently selected for an 18 month cohort on the Nature of Trust, led by Biomimicry for Social Innovation and Biomimicry 3.8

12 August
/ Trust Building

Participatory investing in the health sector: what will it take?

Shift hosted the final Reimagining Equity series call last week focused on shifting “From Institutional Return to Community Wealth.

15 July
/ Participatory Investing

Resourcing health equity: from charity models to shared governance

The third session of the Reimagining Equity series focused on resourcing community-led health efforts and specifically

20 June
/ Participatory Investing

Community Co-Design for Climate Resilience

Shift presented at the recent Healthcare Without Harm CleanMed Pre-Conference on Building community-centered health care climate resilience.

4 June
/ Community Governance

Reimagining equity series centers on community accountability

The second in a four-part series that Shift is hosting on Reimagining Equity focused on shifting from community engagement to community accountability.

29 May
/ Participatory Investing

Reimagining Equity series on shifting narratives and practices in the health ecosystem

A new, four-part reflection and practice space was launched on May 2nd entitled Reimagining Equity.

8 May
/ Participatory Investing

Advancing Health Equity: Collaborative Efforts in Florida

In the quest for equitable, inclusive and thriving communities, collaborative efforts are paramount. The Florida Center for Thriving Communities exemplifies

8 March
/ Community Health Equity

Centering Resident Leadership: Insights from the NeighborWorks America Health Equity Symposium

Shift Health's engagement at the NeighborWorks America Health Equity Symposium offered critical insights into fostering resident-led initiatives for transformative change.

29 February
/ Community Governance

Community Governance: Amplifying Impact of the Real People’s Fund

Shift Health recently partnered with the REAL People's Fund (RPF) to explore innovative collective governance and equitable decision-making models.

12 February
/ Community Governance

Spotlighting a shift partner: cultivating community health in del paso heights

In north Sacramento, California, the Del Paso Heights Growers Alliance stands as a beacon of hope and resilience. Through their

20 December
/ Community Health Equity

Shift Launches Health Sector Participatory Investing Initiative

Shift Health Accelerator is excited to announce the launch of a health sector participatory investing initiative.

17 October
/ Participatory Investing

Insights from the field of participatory investing

Shift collaborated with Build Healthy Places Network (BHPN) to bring together community advisors to inform a recent participatory investing project, the Common Future Action Lab: Participatory Investing initiative.

17 August
/ Participatory Investing

Shift 2023 Impact Report

We are excited to share our Shift 2023 Impact Report. Check out all the great work happening in our network!

11 August
/ Shift Updates

New tool supports participatory investing

Last March, our friends at Common Future launched a 12-month initiative called the Action Lab:

5 June
/ Participatory Investing

Shift helps launch guidance document for Health Systems Anchor Strategies

Healthcare anchor institutions play a crucial role in ensuring the well-being of communities and promoting equitable health outcomes.

17 May
/ Health System Transformation

Seeding participatory investing: Support for Common Future’s Participatory Investing Lab

Common Future launched the Action Lab: Participatory Investing in 2022 to support philanthropic leaders move investment capital in more participatory ways.

3 April
/ Participatory Investing

Community-led Investment Committee surfaces key insights on participatory grantmaking

The Collaborative Fund Investment Committee - made up of community leaders and community based organizations - came together in 2022 to test a community-owned participatory grantmaking process.

7 March
/ Participatory Grantmaking

Community Engaged Healing Framework

Human beings are social creatures by design. This design requires interactions with other humans for survival.

5 January
/ Trust Building

Shift Launches the Healthcare Accountability Learning and Action Network

Through centering community expertise, the Shift Healthcare Accountability Learning Network aims to create an action-learning space for anti-racism

6 December
/ Health System Transformation

Weaving the basket tightly: delivering resources for health equity in rural America

Written by Equity Advisor Bobby Cochran What is rural? The definition isn’t as simple as you might expect. The US

7 November
/ Community Health Equity

Rural health equity roundtable

Written by: Hena Dhir, Randall Lewis Health Policy Fellow Shift Health Accelerator, in collaboration with Vertical Strategies and Interwoven,

3 November
/ Community Health Equity

Through a participatory grants process, Shift moves $200,000 to California community health initiatives

Written by Equity Advisor Caitlin Dunklee and Randall Lewis Health Policy Fellow Hena Dhir

1 August
/ Participatory Grantmaking

2020 impact report

Last year reinforced the necessity of supporting communities in building their culture of health. You can read all about Shift

11 May
/ Shift Updates

Value of Prevention Network: 2020 pilot

We launched the Value of Prevention Network (VOP Network) in early 2020 to convene grantees

10 March
/ Health System Transformation

Done just fix the Shitty Systems that Broke: a social contract for resilience

the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, the federal government acted quickly to shore up banking institutions and to spur consumption.

4 May
/ Community Governance

The potential of outcomes and equity

Who doesn’t love a good outcome! Healthy people, great local food to eat, a neighborhood that’s thriving, and living wages jobs.

20 February
/ Equitable Outcomes Funding

A Vision for the Field: Equitable Outcomes Funding

This is the full version of an article co-written by Jen Lewis-Walden and Matthew Tinsley of Shift Health Accelerator

18 February
/ Equitable Outcomes Funding

Equitable Outcomes Funding Convening of Leaders

There are over 100 Social Impact Bonds worldwide that have raised $400 million to invest in improved outcomes for housing

23 September
/ Equitable Outcomes Funding