Through interviews with leaders from grantee organizations and campaign participants, along with storytelling sessions involving Berkeley youth and adults engaged in Measure D-funded work, the evaluation team identified significant system and community impacts from the initiative. They also highlighted examples of how the efforts focused on racial equity and community power building contributed to creating a healthier community overall.
Read MoreThis brief summarizes community power, features of community power, how groups are building community power, what are the challenges and opportunities they face in their work, and how they think The Praxis Project can be relevant in supporting their efforts.
Read MoreIn this brief, we define popular education, discuss its merits, provide examples of popular education in action, and share recommendations and resources for incorporating popular education into your programming to better support dialogues and liberation.
Read MoreThe purpose of this brief is to present the findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.
Read MoreDeveloped in partnership with ChangeLab Solutions, Advancing Racial Equity in Rural Communities: Legal & Policy Strategies to Support Opportunity, Health & Justice aims to deepen understanding among state and local policymakers seeking to address the systemic and structural barriers that perpetuate inequities in rural communities. This brief will aid changemakers in exploring strategies to advance equity, opportunity, and health for rural residents.
Read MoreDeveloped by ChangeLab Solutions in partnership with The Praxis Project, Advancing Rural Prosperity: Policy Strategies to Support Equitable Development in Rural Communities will guide leaders in promoting equitable economic development in rural places across the country and offers strategies that have the highest potential to meaningfully affect rural BIPOC communities experiencing persistent poverty.
Read MoreFrom Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The purpose of this brief is to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy alternatives to the typical commodified foods that are available in marginalized communities.
Read MoreThe Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The purpose of this brief is to inform institutions and institutional allies of the critical role culture plays in community-led movements, and how to positively and respectfully honor and uplift culture in advancing health justice.
Read MoreMoving from Disaster Preparedness to Disaster Justice: Centering Community & Racial Justice for a Transformed Future is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
This brief, developed in partnership with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), and participating organizations, describes worker-owned cooperatives, democratic workplace practices, and other forms of collective governance for grassroots organizations to more effectively transform the systems, structures, policies, and environments that underlie inequity and injustice.
Read MoreMoving from Disaster Preparedness to Disaster Justice: Centering Community & Racial Justice for a Transformed Future is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
From the inequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to fires ravaging the West Coast, from migrant children being forcibly separated from their parents at the border to continued police violence against the Black community, we have witnessed an array of disasters in the last year and beyond. This brief investigates the concept of “disaster justice” within the context of disaster preparedness and response, and how grassroots organizers have integrated disaster justice into their work.
Read MorePraxis Project along with Healthy Food America, funded in part by Voices for Healthy Kids, an initiative of the American Heart Association, coordinated discussions with national advocates regarding designing equitable soda taxes. This brief describes policy design recommendations, rationale, and considerations for advancing equitable sugary tax policy. This report describes key elements of equitable sugary tax policy design, initiation, adoption, and implementation.
Read MorePraxis Project along with Healthy Food America, funded in part by Voices for Healthy Kids, an initiative of the American Heart Association, coordinated discussions with national advocates regarding designing equitable soda taxes. This brief describes policy design recommendations, rationale, and considerations for advancing equitable sugary tax policy.
Read MorePraxis Project along with Healthy Food America, funded in part by Voices for Healthy Kids, an initiative of the American Heart Association, coordinated discussions with national advocates regarding designing equitable soda taxes. This infographic highlights three key policy recommendations to advance equitable sugary tax policy.
Read MoreThe Principles for Health Justice and Racial Equity helps guide our work in partnership with allies to center community interests in the design, promotion, implementation, and evaluation of policies and initiatives that support health justice and racial equity for everyone.
Read MoreOrganizing Against Systemic Racism During COVID-19 is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
Community organizers have had a vested interest in demanding equity before 2020 and will continue these efforts beyond 2020; our communities do not have the privilege to look away or lose interest in dismantling racism and fighting for justice. The Praxis Project is proud to release this brief to share findings about the priorities of organizers in 2020, particularly around challenges elevated by COVID-19 and systemic racism.
Read MoreThis is a quick guide for grassroots organizations looking to participate in Giving Tuesday on how to launch an impactful campaign to support frontline work.
Read MoreThis is a journal article about Praxis’ CCHE initiative that was published in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods. In the article, the authors describe the "landscape analysis" process used for the CCHE evaluation.
Read MoreCivic Participation for All (CP4All): Organizing Beyond the Ballot Box is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The Praxis Project is proud to showcase how basebuilding community organizers promote civic and community-centered engagement to enact change for justice and equity and inform public health, philanthropy, and other allied fields how to civically engage our communities beyond the ballot box.
Read MoreIn this Praxis Brief, we highlight how nutrition policy and procurement in K-12 institutions can advance health, justice, sustainability, equity, and community power.
Read MoreRecognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The Praxis Project is proud to share this brief to showcase the importance of addressing community trauma through identifying and making space for healing-centered practices that communities have evolved over time, acknowledging and understanding the roots of trauma, and addressing the persistent, structural causes of trauma.
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