Learning, Equity, and Power (LEaP) is an initiative of the Center for the Study of Policy (CSSP) to help turn “ideas into action.” LEaP highlights and encourages learning about what it takes to advance equity and power in communities.

This LEaP highlights lessons and insights from selected research and evaluation of The California Endowment’s (TCE) decade-long Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative. BHC is a $1 billion initiative launched in 2010 that reached 14 communities devastated by health inequities. With various local campaigns, core strategies, and the efforts of thousands of adults and youth, BHC took a broad approach to health
equity and building community power.

This brief explores the elements of movement building, infrastructure required to support and general operating support that allow organizations to operate together and at scale, and how funders can support the power of ecosystem by:

• Centering racial equity, combat anti-Black racism, and work to dismantle White supremacy;
• Committing to the internal work necessary for building and sharing power with communities; and,
• Making a long-term commitment to grantees and communities.

Author/Publisher: Center for the Study of Social Policy