Measuring the Impact of Building Community Power for Health Justice: What? Why? And How?
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.
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Working Principles for Health Justice & Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment
The Working Principles for Health Justice & Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment is a tool for organizations or programs to reflect on the ways in which they embody health justice and racial equity in practice, and identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
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Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice
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.
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The Power of Community Wisdom in Advancing Health Justice & 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.
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BAY AREA SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAXES: AN EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS
This 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.
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Fighting Back on Budget Cuts
This 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.
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Tips on Engaging Service Workers in Smoking Ban Advocacy
This tip sheet offers advice for reaching out to and working with service industry workers on tobacco control policy with input from Saru Jayaraman, Executive Director of Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York.
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Effective Policy Advocacy (English & Spanish)
What 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.
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Language Justice Toolkit
The Language Justice Toolkit is a resource for organizers, popular educators, community leaders and activists, and anyone who is committed to building movements where people can communicate across languages.
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Participatory Action Research Template
Participatory 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.
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Communicating for health Justice: A Communications Strategy Curriculum for Advancing Health Issues
With guiding tools and methods, this communications curriculum is designed to help advocates advance their communications framing to build public support for more equitable systems of health and not simply promoting individual behavior change.
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Working with Labor: A Primer, A History, A Guide
This 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.
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Building Diverse Community Based Coalitions
Most 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.
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Developing an Equity Impact Statement
This guide serves as a resource developing an equity impact statement as a tool for policymaking.
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Giving Tuesday Guide
Check out our short infographic on how to take advantage of Giving Tuesday for fundraising even with a short timeline or limited resources.
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November 2018 Election Season Support: A Tool for Organizers (English & Spanish)
Need some ideas to turn out the vote? This guide outlines specific actions and tools for voter engagement, including messaging, rules around advocacy, voter registration info, etc.
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Using Data for Social Change (English & Spanish)
This brief shares findings from the Data for Social Change (D4SC) project, which sought to understand how grassroots organizations and community organizers across the United States use online data resources to advance their organizing and policy advocacy work to support a culture of health and social change. This brief includes specific recommendations for the public health field.
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Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) Report
Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE), a resource resulting from a partnership between The Praxis Project and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), created a unique intervention for childhood obesity and its root causes.
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Policy Backgrounder by PATH (Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health)
In this report, we sought to answer, are jurisdictions with significant concentrations of communities of color more or less likely to have tobacco control ordinances?
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Meta Messaging: Framing Your Case & Reinforcing Your Allies
This message memo explains how our issues are different and the same, and how, as advocates, we can make the most of it in our messages to serve their own immediate strategic needs and, at the same time, echo one another’s larger goals for social change.
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