I’ve had the privilege of being able to design, launch and evaluate high-impact philanthropic initiatives in collaboration with many thoughtful, innovative colleagues. Here are a few that I found especially gratifying.
How can food act as a platform for health, cultural expression and economic development? My reflections on what we learned about equitable food-oriented development from The Kresge Foundation’s $12 million FreshLo initiative
How can philanthropy genuinely build community power to advance climate resilience and health equity? My reflections from Kresge’s $28 million Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative
What factors influence the success of funder collaboratives? I co-authored this article in Foundation Review with other co-founders of the Build Health Challenge to share our lessons from this initiative
How can foundations foster more effective collaboration at the intersections of their program strategies? I share the lessons we learned from doubling our cross-team grantmaking in this Foundation Review article
Climate Crisis, Environmental Justice and Racial Justice; I co-authored this chapter with field leaders in the book “Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Health Equity” (Oxford University Press, 2022)
How can philanthropy share power and center equity to co-design initiatives with community-based partners? My co-authors and I share some lessons learned from our experience redesigning the BUILD Health Challenge in Philanthropy News Digest
How can health conversion foundations be designed to represent community priorities and improve health equity? I share some recommendations in this op-ed in The Oregonian
How can tax credits, grants and program-related investments be blended to promote healthy community development? My co-authors and I share some lessons from the $180 million Healthy Futures Fund
Advisory, Governance and Community Service Roles
Amplify Fund National Steering Committee (2018-2023)
Four Freedoms Fund National Steering Committee (2017-2023)
Center for Community Investment Advisory Committee (2017-2023)
BUILD Health Challenge Executive Steering Committee (2014-2023)
Convergence Partnership National Steering Committee (2013-2023)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Climate Solutions Advisory Committee (2020-2023)
SPARCC National Steering Committee (2016-2020)
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity (2016-18)
Living Cities Blended Catalyst Fund Investment Committee (2015-2018)
RWJF “Culture of Health” Prize Selection Committee (2015)
Board President, Oregon Public Health Association (2011-12)