Harvest

The third stage is Harvest.

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At this stage, you begin to see the impacts of the strategies you planted: new policies, practices, and relationships.

Harvest time is when you celebrate your wins, learn from your process and outcomes, deepen and broaden your relationships with communities and organizations, and recommit to cultivating and growing your health equity and racial justice strategies.

This is a time to look forward to what new opportunities, relationships, and impacts are possible based on what you’ve done so far. It’s also a time to return to nurturing and investing in the container, infrastructure, leadership, analysis, and relationships that are foundational to effective equity work. Harvest season is also a time to prune and compost: trim away parts of the work that are no longer serving your equity goals, and turn the learnings from your work to date into insights that will further enrich your strategies moving forward.

Harvest Stage

Strategic Practices

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Align with and Support Social Justice Movements

Strategically align with and support social justice campaigns and movements.

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Gather Learnings and Share Insights

Gather learnings about the impact of your equity strategies, and share insights from those learnings with staff and partners.

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Plan for Sustainability

Sustaining strategies over the long-term is critical for achieving health equity and racial justice goals.

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Shift Organizational Culture

Transformational change in society requires transforming ourselves and our organizations.