Leveraging Health Care Organizations’ Economic Resources to Advance Racial Equity at the Community-Level

This webinar describes lessons two healthcare organizations learned by partnering with local organizations to leverage their institution’s economic resources to improve the economic well being of local under-resourced communities, thereby improving health outcomes.

This webinar presents the Anchor Institution Model by the Healthcare Anchor Network, which involves creating on-ramps and pathways to family sustaining jobs for historically underserved communities, shifting procurement of goods and services to small, local, diverse businesses, and providing grants and loans to support racial-equity-focused local community development