The 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 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 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 MoreThis is a report on the the passage of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in the Bay Area starting with. Measure D in Berkeley, CA and analysis of the implementation process of this successful legislation.
Read MoreThis publication is designed to be a resource for organizers, community groups, and public agencies at various levels of capacity working to build support for healthy budget priorities. This "kit" will help groups better understand the economic context in which budget cuts are taking place, develop strategic communications and organizing plans for approaching this issue, and gain tools and methods for researching state budget processes.
Read MoreWhat are the tools needed to build effective policy advocacy? This report delves into three major components: policy planning, base and coalition building, and media advocacy through a series of actionable tools and guides as well as general policy advocacy resources.
Read MoreParticipatory Action Research (PAR) integrates research and action. This Participatory Action Research template supports community based organizations’ seeking to undertake research projects to support their community development and advocacy work.
Read MoreThis publication is part of a series of resources developed with funding from the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium that are designed to help advocates bridge tobacco control organizing and other health justice issues.
Read MoreMost activists have figured out that engaging a broad cross-section of people in support of an issue is a great strategy. This guiding tool offers what is important to take into account in our efforts to building diverse community based coalitions.
Read MoreThis guide serves as a resource developing an equity impact statement as a tool for policymaking.
Read MoreIn this report, we sought to answer, are jurisdictions with significant concentrations of communities of color more or less likely to have tobacco control ordinances?
Read MoreIf we are serious about building community power, we must shape and initiate public policy. This guide offers some basic steps, tools, and worksheets to guide your strategy in shaping proactive, community-generated policies.
Read MoreThis guide provides background and planning tips on how to develop an implementation plan to address Goal Four of the Centers for Disease Control’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
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