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A Picture and a Thousand Words

By Phil Bors on September 25th, 2019

Youth share their perspective of their own communities through Photovoice

Active Transportation Equity

By Phil Bors and Sarah Moore on May 23rd, 2019

In a recent post, Healthy Places by Design shared an overview of how transportation intersects with creating healthy places. Among the roundup of research were a few points that highlighted […]

How Resident Insights Improved One City’s Walkability Plans

By Phil Bors on May 16th, 2019

Highlight of the CDC and NACDD Walkability Action Institute

Inclusion Includes You, Too

By Phil Bors on October 11th, 2018

Many of us working in nonprofits and government agencies wholeheartedly believe in residents’ inclusion in our work. However, we sometimes miss opportunities or shy away from using our influence in places where we are residents.

Relationships Are at the Heart of Facilitative Leaders

By Phil Bors on July 31st, 2018

A Conversation with Wade Norwood, CEO of Common Ground Health

Organizing Action in the South Bronx

By Phil Bors on June 6th, 2018

A conversation with Yineska Guerrero, Healthy Livable Communities Coordinator at Urban Health Plan (UHP), a federally qualified non-profit health system.

Open the Gates You Keep

By Phil Bors on January 31st, 2018

Each of us has power; we are all gatekeepers at some level. So what does that look like in action?

Six Reasons to Believe in Government

By Phil Bors on December 7th, 2017

While responsibility for community health is often attributed only to public health departments, a NC investment recognized that all sectors of government impact our health.

Monuments to Racism Undermine Community Health

By Phil Bors on August 23rd, 2017

Recent events in Charlottesville, VA have sent us reeling. At Active Living By Design (now Healthy Places by Design), we believe that health and wellbeing are essential human rights, and […]

How I Benefited from Unfair Housing

By Phil Bors on April 26th, 2017

Fighting American Nationals picket in front of CORE (Congress of Racial Equity) protesters who were demanding Levitt & Sons to open the Belair subdivision in Bowie, MD, to African Americans. […]