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Socially Connected Communities

By: Risa Wilkerson | March 4th, 2021

Social isolation is not a personal choice or individual problem, but one that is rooted in community design, social norms, and systemic injustices. We must reshape our communities in ways that support meaningful social connection among residents, improve trust between neighbors, and strengthen an overall sense of belonging and community connection. Find resources and action steps you can take here.

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7.2.19

Lessons from Six Years of Supporting Food Systems Change

Insights from a Farmer Foodshare board member

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6.26.19

Racial Equity and Food

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6.21.19

The Roots of America’s Broken Food System

And the communities sowing seeds for a healthier future

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5.23.19

Active Transportation Equity

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5.16.19

How Resident Insights Improved One City’s Walkability Plans

Highlight of the CDC and NACDD Walkability Action Institute

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5.14.19

Transportation and Healthy Places in 2019

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4.24.19

Pushing Aside the Rural-Urban Divide

The heightened state of distrust between urban and rural communities has made it more difficult to recognize that there is an inherent interdependence between them. Philanthropy is uniquely positioned to offer an intentional approach to rural inclusion, as well as a new rural–urban narrative, that doesn’t increase division.

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4.18.19

The Planning Sector Has an Inequity Problem

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4.11.19

Insights from the Intersection of Planning and Public Health

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3.27.19

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Inequity

Whether we look at health outcomes through the lens of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, social determinants of health, or any other framework for sorting society’s systems, a common thread of historic—and too often, current—racial discrimination runs through them.

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3.21.19

Communities Building Housing—and Hope

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3.13.19

A Conversation about Equity, Health, and Housing with Sarah Norman of NeighborWorks

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