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How effectively is your organization centering community? The Centering Community Organizational Self-Assessment is designed to help leaders in government, nonprofits and philanthropy evaluate what is or isn’t being done to center community.

On the heels of Food Solutions New England's 2023 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge, we sat down with Karen Spiller and Curtis Ogden to explore the connections between racial equity, wellbeing and food systems.

Learn from leaders who are advancing new narratives about violence for a conversation on how the stories we tell can lead to accountability, healing and prevention. People with lived expertise share the impact of public safety reporting on narratives and call for shifting power from media and institutions to survivors and impacted communities.

Seattle-King County is co-creating a homeless response system that is adaptive to the needs of the community’s most vulnerable members – and it all starts with wellbeing. Learn how Blueprint signer Tamara Bauman is harnessing the power of Continuums of Care in advancing housing justice.

Check out tangible tools, scoring guides and strategies to embed equity and wellbeing into your procurement process in our Contracting for Transformation Toolkit. We designed the toolkit for human services, and know there are opportunities to apply these principles to other fields including the built environment, healthcare, justice systems and more.

What would it look like for government systems, philanthropy and nonprofits to meaningfully and responsibly engage with community? Community leaders across nine states have partnered with the Full Frame Initiative to develop the Community Bill of Rights — a starting point for centering community, shifting power and healing systemic harms.

This tool provides a list of questions to consider when collecting program data and analyzing indicators of survivor success.

Laura Van Zandt is the executive director of REACH Beyond Domestic Violence in Massachusetts. This National Domestic Violence Awareness month, we sat down with Laura to discuss how systems can better support the wellbeing of survivors and actions anyone can take to prevent and disrupt domestic violence.

The Wellbeing Blueprint hosted a discussion with housing justice leaders across the country to showcase innovative solutions to end homelessness. Service providers, organizers and people with lived expertise shared what is working in their communities and ideas for making housing a human right, not a privilege.

The Wellbeing Blueprint hosted a discussion with service providers, organizers and people with lived expertise that explored the root causes of homelessness and real solutions that advance housing as a human right.

The Wellbeing Blueprint, the Humane Society of the United States's Pets for Life program and HEART L.A. discuss the intersection of pet ownership, poverty, housing instability and social justice. 

Alex Schneider is a Senior Manager on the Youth Justice Initiatives team at Columbia University’s Justice Lab, which is focused on ending the punitive youth prison model and investing in the communities hit hardest by youth incarceration. We recently sat down with Alex to discuss his vision for the future of youth justice and meaningful actions anyone can take to push for real transformation.