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Anchoring Health in Community
Anchoring Health in Community
Anchor institutions are large organizations that are unlikely to relocate and have a significant stake in their local area. They have sizeable assets that can be used to support their local community’s health and wellbeing and mitigate health inequalities. Due to their reach, these organizations always influence socioeconomic determinants in their community; doing so intentionally can leverage procurement, training, employment, professional development, buildings, and land-use choices to do impact the health, wellness, and economy of our communities in an equitable and healthy way.
Co-Benefits
Co-Benefits
describe the intersectional benefits of strategies that positively affect multiple objectives, such as community health, environmental sustainability, economic growth, and social equity.
Health & The Environment
Health & The Environment
Strategies
Strategies
Directing a greater percentage of purchasing power toward local vendors.
Hiring a greater percentage of the workforce locally.
Providing workforce training for people needing assistance in the community.
Incubating the development of new businesses, including social enterprises as well as nonprofits.
Leveraging real estate development to promote local retail, employer-assisted housing, and community land trusts.
Using pension and endowment funds to invest in local job creation strategies and to provide community venture capital for nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and employee-owned firms.
Procurement
Procurement
Purchasing locally and for social and environmental benefit
Training
Training
Empowering people's capacity for growth
Employment
Employment
Widening access to quality work
Professional Development
Professional Development
Improving retention and skill
Buildings
Buildings
Using buildings to facilitate community
Land Use
Land Use
Using land to support local spaces
Examples to Follow
Examples to Follow
Explore other organizations leveraging their position as an anchor institution to co-benefit their communities:
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