Launched a statewide partnership to explore long-term, durable funding for prevention and health equity.

We launched our partnership with Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) and Fresno Building Healthy Communities (Fresno BHC) for a five-year initiative to catalyze innovative health financing through new, durable, substantial funding streams that support community-rooted health efforts and power building. Leveraging $15 million in funding from The California Endowment’s social bond investment, our vision for the initiative is to strengthen, expand, and coordinate advocacy efforts underway in communities across the state to align public investments with health equity and racial justice. Together with our networks and partners across the state, we will elevate models of funding that create accountability for closing gaps in historically under-resourced communities. We will strengthen momentum for transformative investments that aim to take corrective action and redress historical forces behind present-day health inequities, as a true commitment to health equity and racial justice involves realigning funds and other resources to make change possible. Funder: The California Endowment.