Strategic Practices Overview
Cultivate
Prepare your soil and gather the nutrients you need to begin your garden. Develop a supportive container and environment — with the necessary resources, leadership, and analysis — for your health equity strategies.
Strategic Practices
Build Internal Infrastructure and Capacity
Cultivate an organizational infrastructure capable of sustaining internal change work.
Develop a Shared Analysis
Develop shared analyses of root causes of health inequities, power, and the political landscape.
Articulate Your Vision and Values
Articulate a clear vision and values that will guide your health equity and racial justice strategy.
Develop Shared Leadership and Support Innovation
Develop shared leadership, support innovation, and take strategic risks to advance equity.
Plant
Select, plant, and care for your growing seeds. Choose and implement a variety of mutually beneficial strategies that you will care for as they grow and advance your health equity and racial justice goals.
Strategic Practices
Build Narrative Power
Create and advance transformative narratives that shape a more equitable vision of what is possible.
Mobilize Data and Research
Mobilize data and research in partnership with communities to build community power and advance equitable policies.
Change Internal Policies and Practices
Change internal policies and practices, and align processes to center and embed health equity and racial justice across the organization.
Pursue Policy Changes that Transform the Root Causes
Actively pursue policy changes that address the root cause of health inequities.
Build Strategic Partnerships
Leverage relationships across government and foster accountable relationships with the community.
Support Community Power-Building
Leverage governmental power to provide tangible support for community power-building organizations and campaigns.
Harvest
Harvest, enjoy, and share your fruit; prune and compost your plants for the next growing season. Celebrate your wins and learn from your successes and challenges before returning to the beginning of this cycle to further develop your health equity practice.
Strategic Practices
Align with and Support Social Justice Movements
Strategically align with and support social justice campaigns and movements.
Gather Learnings and Share Insights
Gather learnings about the impact of your equity strategies, and share insights from those learnings with staff and partners.
Plan for Sustainability
Sustaining strategies over the long-term is critical for achieving health equity and racial justice goals.
Shift Organizational Culture
Transformational change in society requires transforming ourselves and our organizations.