Mobilizing Innovative Partnerships for Community Investment

<p>How can community anchor institutions, like hospitals, help launch and strengthen community investment initiatives? <br /><br />In this episode, we learn about how <strong>Nationwide Children’s Hospital </strong>and the nonprofit housing organization <strong>Healthy Homes </strong>worked to support affordable housing and home repair in Columbus, Ohio. Through their work building deeper community connections and accountability, they saw real progress and real community outcomes in their Columbus neighborhoods.<br /><br />Sharing their experiences and what they learned through this partnership are <strong>Nora Bloch</strong> of Center for Community Investment, and <strong>Patrice Allen Brady </strong>and <strong>Gretchen West </strong>of Healthy Homes. <br /><br />If you’ve been wondering how community anchor institutions can be supportive partners in building stronger communities or how to harness new, untapped forms of community investment capital, we recommend listening in.<br /><br /><strong>Resources and Footnotes:</strong></p><p><a href="https://healthyhomescolumbus.org" target="_blank">Healthy Homes</a></p><p><a href="https://centerforcommunityinvestment.org/" target="_blank">Center for Community Investment</a></p><p><strong>More on Collective Impact</strong></p><p>Infographic: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/what-is-collective-impact/" target="_blank">What is Collective Impact?</a><br />Resource List: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/getting-started/" target="_blank">Getting Started in Collective Impact</a></p><p>The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found <a href="https://filmmusic.io/song/5434-running/">here</a> and is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC: By 4.0.</a></p><p>The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by <a href="https://incompetech.com/">Kevin Macleod</a>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC: By.</a></p><p>Have a question related to