What is your coalition’s UNIQUE value add?
What’s your coalition’s unique value add in your community?
Here at PoP Health, we’ve been thinking a lot about why coalitions sometimes feel stuck in neutral (and the key to shifting gears).
Our five steps to strengthen coalition foundations - the Coalition Core 5 - begins with shared clarity around why you exist as a coalition. More specifically, what is your coalition’s unique value add in your community.
Why most coalitions feel stuck in neutral (and the key to shifting gears)
For the last few months, we’ve been talking about how public health isn’t actually a systems business. It’s a people business.
4 questions on the path to action
I’ve been sitting with some hard truths lately.
Systems are complex. Dynamic. Interconnected.
Working together in a coalition to change those systems is hard. Slow. Complicated.
That’s just the reality of what we’re trying to do.
4 options in the face of collapsing systems
If you, like me, are distressed about what’s happening at the CDC, what’s happening around vaccines, what’s been happening with public health grants and research being terminated, and more - I see you.
Go ahead, reinvent the wheel - just do it faster
When you hear the phrase “reinventing the wheel”, how does it make you feel? I’ve always thought of it as a bad thing, something to be avoided, a sign that I’m doing things wrong.
Jane Fonda on how "community means power"
As agencies, nonprofits, families, and individuals make contingency plans upon contingency plans in face of all the uncertainty of this moment, I wanted to share some words - courtesy of Jane Fonda - of both hope and action (which were PoP Health’s wish + invitation for 2025…which, two months in, feels like it has already lasted about two years).
What organizing IS and ISN'T
Unfortunately, everything is still on fire, and the public’s health (and SO much else) remains under threat.
I talked earlier this month about how taking action requires a) actually planning and committing to take action and b) organizing.
But what even is organizing?
Today, I want to share a little primer on what organizing IS and what it IS NOT.
Taking action when everything is on fire
Whew, it's been a couple weeks, hasn't it?
Public health is being further threatened than it already was in every direction - halting of foreign aid work; an attempted coup in the form of a spending freeze; an anti-vaccine skeptic nominated to lead the nation's health agency; the list - sadly - goes on.
Why we must ACT in 2025
I opened the new year inviting you to join PoP Health at the intersection of hope and action to transform health in our communities.
Earlier this month, we dove into the idea of hope.
Today, we’re focused on ACTION.
Why we must HOPE in 2025
Regardless of where on the spectrum your year so far falls, I stand by what I shared last week: I believe wholeheartedly that it is at the intersection of hope and action that we can work together to transform health in our communities. So in this issue and the next, I’d like to break down each of those concepts.
Today, we’re focused on HOPE.