Realigning Healthcare Systems with Community Priorities

Goal

Positioning community-based organizations to reimagine research as a tool to shift local health priorities and philanthropic practices, powered by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Strategy & Alignment • Process Facilitation • Program Design • Capacity Building • Field Building

Role

  • Designed and facilitated multi-year community-building and training program for 10 community-based grantees

  • Co-created tools, frameworks, and a national learning community

  • Led culturally responsive and healing-centered convenings

  • Translated community insight into strategic recommendations for health systems

  • Contributed to thought leadership within the foundation, in Stanford Social Innovation Review and Health Affairs.

Outcomes

Participating organizations strengthened community-led research capacity and influence. Foundation partners adopted more community-centered grantmaking approaches. The work produced a replicable model for participatory research as a capacity-building strategy.

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"You bring such a thoughtful lens and positive energy to your thought partnership, approach to the work, and commitment to bringing equitable spaces and learning to communities. "

— Client partner