From 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.

The 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.

Moving 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.

Moving 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.

Organizing 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.

Civic 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.

Recognizing 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.

Measuring the Impact of Building Community Power for Health Justice: What? Why? And How? is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

Building community power is increasingly recognized as a valuable and necessary strategy to improve health justice and racial equity, with both immediate and long-term results. However, there is limited research or documentation of authentic discussions on the definitions, nuances, and front-line measurement of building power. The Praxis Project is proud to share this brief that summarizes our discussions and recommendations to measure the impact of building power as a strategy to improve health justice and racial equity.

Community Centered Health Justice & Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The Praxis Project is proud to share this working brief, which highlights the vast efforts to improve community health and justice led by our partners who are organizing across the United States. The purpose of this brief is to inform the broader practice of public health in the necessary and authentic engagement of basebuilding organizers—those who represent community’s interests—to advance policies, systems, practices and environmental change designed to improve health justice and racial equity.

The Power of Community Wisdom in Advancing Health Justice & Racial Equity provides an introduction to the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.

The Praxis Project and our community partners operate with the acknowledgment that the practice of traditional public health and allied professions has made significant and necessary progress in improving population health, and yet is still not benefiting all communities equitably. Basebuilding, community organizing and power-building, however, remain largely untapped and represent an area of great opportunity for advancing racial and health equity.