Celebrating Healthy Beginnings+Healthy Communities Collaborative Accomplishments From 2015 Through 2020
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Northwest Health Foundation’s Healthy Beginnings+Healthy Communities initiative is wrapping up after six years of grantmaking. Over the course of this initiative, the HB+HC Collaboratives built power individually as well as collectively. For example, one Collaborative, the Eastern Oregon Latino Alliance for Children and Families, was instrumental in persuading the City of Ontario in eastern Oregon to form a diversity advisory committee and ensuring the committee includes Latino representation. Other advocacy wins, like No on Measure 105, involved every Collaborative in the HB+HC Cohort, with different Collaboratives contributing to door-to-door canvassing, phone banking, writing editorials, creating campaign ads and more.
In the last few years, the Collaboratives accomplished more than we could ever capture. We recognize HB+HC played only a small part in supporting these accomplishments, and other organizations and community leaders who were not funded through HB+HC contributed to them as well. That said, we still want to celebrate these incredible wins! Here are a handful of the HB+HC Collaboratives’ accomplishments over the last six years. (We’ve included some links to examples.)
Registered thousands of new voters.
Held lobby and legislative action days.
Knocked on thousands of doors, made tens of thousands of phone calls, and sent tens of thousands of texts in support of issue campaigns, candidates and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Led leadership and advocacy trainings.
Led and won issue campaigns.
- Stable Homes
- Prescription Drug Labeling
- Tobacco and E-cigarette Tax Increase
- Decriminalizing Drugs and Funding Treatment
- Portland Police Accountability
Led and won candidate campaigns across Oregon.
Held candidate forums, listening sessions and town halls.
Held community events.
Created and served on advisory committees.
Brought critical lived experience to coalitions.
Researched and released reports.
Wrote letters to the editor and editorials, and made campaign videos.
Developed a cross-cultural racial equity narrative.
Created COVID-19 pandemic relief funds.
Participated in a statewide Census campaign emphasizing outreach to hard-to-count communities.
Pivoted time after time as new crises arose, including the election of President Trump in 2016, increased presence of ICE in our communities, social uprisings against police brutality, the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires and more.
A Snapshot of the HB+HC Initiative
