We founded the Arizona Partnership for Healthy Communities alongside Vitalyst Health Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to dramatically transform Arizona’s communities by creating multi-sector collaborations. This unique approach to healthy communities is to bring the private sector to the table to ensure that banks, health insurers, and health care providers are active partners alongside the government and nonprofit sectors.

In our approach to climate justice, we focus on the social determinants of health and center those most at risk from rising temperatures, drought and the economic impacts of climate change.

Our collaborations with the NFL Foundation “Grassroots” program and ESPN’s Home Court program, part of our sports and recreation initiatives, help schools and community organizations build or rehab football fields and renovate basketball courts.

Our Health Impact Assessment (HIA) planning tool provides insights and advice about improving health through community design. When used during a planning process, HIAs can evaluate potential health effects and make recommendations to improve health or minimize adverse outcomes before a project is built or a policy is implemented.

Turning the Corner brings together stakeholders to understand and discuss ways to address gentrification and displacement.

Together with the City of Phoenix Office of Environmental Programs we removed barriers to government funding for community-based organizations that were addressing food insecurity in healthy, affordable, and culturally relevant ways. What began as a pandemic response continued to serve a longstanding need.

We support Communities of Practice that are working together to rethink and unlearn how communities and institutions visualize safety in their neighborhoods. Grassroots organizers have convened and facilitated racial equity practices that are building understanding between staff from Valley Metro and the City of Phoenix and LGBTQ, Black, Brown and Indigenous community members in neighborhoods along the light rail corridor.

Read our series of feature stories that highlight the challenges, opportunities and successes of the corridors along the light rail line.