Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan

This brief explores how stewards in Palm Beach County, Florida and a five-town region in southeast Michigan determined how to reallocate resources to create more equitable regional systems for health and well-being.

Working together, small teams made up of key funding entities created conditions to break down silos and foster mutual understanding and trust, leading to greater interdependence and cohesion across organizations as well as clarity about each organization’s distinct role.