100 million healthier lives

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

100 Million Healthier Lives is a global community of change makers across hundreds of communities who are transforming the way we think and act to improve health, wellbeing, and equity.

10 Characteristics of Infants and Toddlers - A State and Local Data tool to Inform Policy and Action

Urban Institute

This interactive tool shows 10 important characteristics of children from birth to age 2. It displays the characteristics by whether their families are low income, whether their parents have education beyond high school, or whether their parents are immigrants.

12 Tips for Community Engagement

Advocacy and Communication Solutions

This resource offers an overview of the goals of community engagement as both a process and outcome, and outlines 12 steps and best practices to foster authentic community engagement.

15+ tools and Resources to Challenge Racism

Compass Point

A collection of racial justice resources curated by CompassPoint staff members including: blogs, toolkits, frameworks, and videos.

2016 Children’s HealthWatch Support Letter to USDA Food & Nutrition Service to conduct research on the adequacy of the SNAP benefit

Children's Health Watch

This letter developed by Children’s Health Watch outlines the ineffectual nature of several specific parts of the SNAP program. It describes each point in detail offering up statistics to demonstrate the barriers that are still in place which hamper low-income families from either receiving SNAP benefits or, utilizing them to their fullest extent. Such barriers include the administrative checks necessary to first receive the benefits, to the fact that few cities contain enough healthy eating establishments cheap enough for SNAP holders to use effectively.

2016 Massachusetts Policy Brief for EITC

Children's Health Watch

This policy brief reviews how the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a powerful anti-poverty program, both federally and in Massachusetts.

2017 Children’s HealthWatch Fact Sheet for Massachusetts EITC

Children's Health Watch

This fact sheet provides a concise overview of The Earned Income Tax Credit in MA, with specific regard to how it relates to community and early childhood health outcomes and equity.

2021 Kids Count Data Book

The Annie E Casey Foundation

The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic.

2022 Black Maternal Health Conference: Policy toolkit

MOTHER Lab

The Maternal Outcomes for Translational Health Equity Research (MOTHER) Lab is dedicated to addressing and eradicating maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity. They provide a toolkit to explain how bills become laws and introduce some policies that MOTHER Lab supports as promoting maternal health equity.

2025 Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda

A roadmap created by Black-led organizations to advance reproductive justice through over 125 policy recommendations. Grounded in equity and lived experience, it addresses the intersections of race, gender, and social determinants to transform systems and promote community well-being.

3rd Grade Reading Success Matters: General Campaign info

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By 2020, a dozen states or more will increase by at least 100 percent the number of children from low-income families reading proficiently at the end of third grade. The Campaign is building a network of national and local civic leaders, policymakers, advocates, community organizations, and everyday people to assure: quality teaching for every child in every setting, community-driven efforts to address barriers, and a seamless, outcomes-accountable system of care, services, and family supports for children, from birth through third grade.

3 Ways to Center Indigenous Ways of Being in Birth Work

Euni (Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings)

This blog post outlines the ways in which birth workers and supporters can acknowledge and center indigenous practices in their work with an ultimate aim to help decolonize birth work.

4 Data Visualization Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Michael Duran

This article points out the common data visualization mistakes made and what can be done to avoid them: (1) Math Doesn't Add Up, (2) Comparison Looks Similar, (3) Much Going On, (4) Forget to Label

5-2-1-0 Let’s Go

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Lets Go! is an obesity-prevention initiative based in Maine that partners with other organizations nationwide. The organization focuses on healthy eating, limiting screen time, and encouraging physical activity.

5 Part Coalition Building tools

The Society for Public Health Education

The Society for Public Health Education provides acurated collection of coalition tools and resources outlining valuable steps on organizing, guiding, evaluating, and sustaining coalitions.

6 Sustainability tools nonprofits need to incorporate for long-term success

First 5 Sacramento

Sustainability is an essential part of carrying out a nonprofits mission. This article, written by the First 5 Sacramento, highlights 6 key tools for developing a plan that works best for your organization.

6-Top Reviewed Nonprofit Accounting Software Options

Nick Morpus

This resource is a collective list of accounting software options for nonprofit organizations. These 6 programs were chosen based off their features, ratings, and overall reviews.

Abortion on the 2026 Ballot: The Evolving Landscape of Abortion Initiatives

Laurie Sobel, Rolonda Donelson, and Alina Salganicoff

This article outlines specific legislation related to abortion care and access that is on the ballot across various states in the 2026 elections. The article also provides details around the state context and the policies themselves.

Abriendo Puertas

Abriendo Puertas / Opening Doors is the nation’s first evidence-based comprehensive training program developed by and for Latino parents with children ages 0-5 to be advocates and leaders for themselves and their young children.

Abriendo Puertas/ Opening Doors Parenting Program: Summary report of Program Implementation and Impacts

Child Trends

This brief provides an overview of a Child Trends evaluation study of the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors program, which works with Latino parents of young children to promote practices that foster children’s learning and development, parent leadership, and advocacy. The study is the first random-assignment evaluation of a culturally-relevant parenting program serving Latino children in the United States.

Abundance Boston App

Vital Village Network Data Workgroup

The Abundance App allows is a tool that allows you to find affordable options for healthy food near you including food pantries, farmers market, and grocery stores. The app also allows users to leave reviews for each location so you can find the best options around.

ACEs

CDC

This site from the CDC provides background on adverse childhood experiences and information on how to prevent them in your community.

ACES Connection

ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global ACEs science movement, recognizes the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions -- from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches -- to help heal and develop resilience instead of traumatizing already traumatized people.

ACEs Parent Handouts & ACEs One Pagers and Link to GRC 2.0

ACEs Connection

A collection of parent handouts and one pagers addressing ACEs, from ACEs Connection.

ACEs Science 101 - ACEs Science FAQs

This resource provides an overview of the of current research regarding the prevalence and consequences of adverse childhood experiences.

ACES to Assets 2019 - Creating trauma-informed policy from Health, Education, Care & Justice

ACE Aware Nation

This recording captures the panel discussion among leaders in health education, care, and justice on the ways policies need to shift and "plae relationships at the heart of systems and processes"

ACESTooHigh

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ACESTooHigh is a news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.

A Coalition Model for Community Action

Frances Butterfoss and Michelle Kegler

A Chapter in "Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare," Ed. Minkler, Rutgers University Press, 2012. Butterfoss and Kegler propose a framework for understanding coalitions through a theory of community coalitions. This includes how coalitions and collaboration is defined, types of coalitions, benefits of coalitions, as well as the stages of coalition development.

A Community Builders' toolkit

Institute for Democratic Renewal, The Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative

This toolkit was developed to support individuals engaged in community building work who have not yet brought issues of racism to the forefront, and for those engaged in anti-racism or diversity work who have not yet applied their skills to improve specific community outcomes. It highlights 15 specific tools for creating healthy, productive, interracial/multicultural communities.

Addressing Racial Injustice with Young Children

EMBRACE RACE

This tool is a conversation, tip sheet and video created by EMBRACE RACE to discuss racial injustice in America with young children and their families in a culturally inclusive and age-appropriate way.

A Decade of Shape Up Somerville - Assessing Child Obesity Measures 2002-2011

Shape Up Somerville

This document overviews the efforts and results of the Shape Up Somerville (SUS) initiative, which served as an exemplary national model of community-based systems change. This report was developed to document changes in obesity outcome measures among Somerville children during the SUS decade (2002-2011).

A Different Way of Doing Business - Examples of Pre-K to Third Grade Alignment in Practice

Ullrich and Adamu

This issue brief discusses the current education system in America, and efforts to align policy and practice across levels. Specifically, this issue brief provides an overview of some of the key components and challenges of pre-K to third grade, or P-3, alignment initiatives identified by implementers at the state and local levels.

Advancing Better Outcomes for All Children: reporting Data Using a Racial Equity Lens

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

This resource was a spotlight at our April 2020 data webinar. It provides guidance on utilizing a racial equity lens for reporting data.

Advancing Birth Justice: Community-Based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities

Ancient Song Doula Services, Village Birth International & Every Mother Counts

This report highlights the uniquely suited model of community-based doulas to address health disparities in the United States.

Advancing Health Equity: Insights from RAPID and NBCDI's Vision for Black Families

Leah Hairson

Advancing Health Equity: Insights from RAPID and NBCDI's Vision for Black Families highlights strategies and frameworks to promote health equity for Black children and families. It emphasizes collaborative, community-centered approaches to dismantle systemic barriers and improve access to resources, services, and opportunities.

Advancing Kids

Connecticut Children's Hospital

This office of the Connecticut Children's Hospital supports the medical center in becoming a critical community resource by developing and promoting effective community-oriented programs. The programs address issues across a wide range of sectors.

Advancing Racial Equity and Transforming Government: A Resource Guide to Put Ideas Into Action

Government Alliance on Race and Equity

This toolkit is based on the lessons learned from practitioners, as well as academic experts and national technical assistance providers, in order to assist government leaders in operationalizing racial equity.

Advancing the Mission - tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

JustPartners, Inc.

Workplace racial inequity exists in America unless significant attention is paid to changing it. When racial equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are understood as mission-relevant to an organization, strategies for achieving these take precedence and permeate the culture. This toolkit condenses 15 years of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s employee work “hard-wiring” EDI as part of the cultural norm from management to staff to grantees to vendors.

Adverse childhood events are associated with obesity and disordered eating: Results from a U.S. population-based survey of young adults

Bernard Fuemmeler, Eric Dedert, Joseph McClernon, and Jean Beckhamb

The authors of this research article investigate the relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood through a U.S. population-based survey. This is the first study to note an association between childhood abuse with obesity and problematic weight management behaviors in a sample of young adults.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. Much of the foundational research in this area has been referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Visit the CDC website to learn more about the original study including ACE definitions, study demographics, major findings, and more.

Adverse Childhood Experiences Infographic

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This infographic providers a helpful overview of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and its impact on the health and wellbeing of communities.

Adversity In Early Childhood - The Role of Policy In Creating and Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences

Center for American Progress

A new report from the Center for American Progress containing new data on the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among young children from birth to age three, and the variances by state. The report offers policy implications among its key findings, along with recommendations that policymakers should implement policies that reduce the prevalence of adverse events, mitigate their negative effects and develop resources for practitioners and communities to effectively embed adversity screenings within a broader system of support.

Advocacy tools

Ounce of Prevention Fund

These advocacy tools help users discover how easy it is to talk to their legislator, how their action can help families in need, and how to work with the media.

AISP Network Case Studies

Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

ASIP is an initiative that focuses on the development, use, and innovation of integrated data systems for policy analysis and program reform. ASIP consists of a learning network with sites across the country. This site is the resulsts of case studied were conducted at 8 sites across the learning network.

Alignment toolset

Alignment USA

Alignment USA was created to support and coach communities as they adapt the Alignment toolset in their own communities/ regions. This toolset was developed by Alignment Nashville to align community organizations and resources so that their coordinated support of the community's youth has a positive impact on public school success, children's health, and the success of our community as a whole. The toolset--Principles, Structure, Process, and Technology--are an integrated system and implementation as a system results in collective impact and strategic and resource alignment.

All in Cities toolkit

PolicyLink

The All-In Cities Policy toolkit provides a suite a strategies and tools, for 6 policy areas, to advance racial inclusion and equitable growth: Good jobs, Economic security, Homegrown talent, Healthy neighborhoods, Housing / anti-displacement, Democracy and justice. Each tool contains information on what the policy is, key considerations, who can implement it, and examples of where it is working.

All Our Kin

All Our Kin builds high-quality, sustainable family child care programs, giving our youngest and most vulnerable children the quality learning experiences that they need and deserve.The organization trains, supports, and sustains community child care providers to ensure that children and families have the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life.

All Our Kin’s Family Child Care Network

All Our Kin

All Our Kin’s Family Child Care Network offers educational mentorship, professional development, advocacy and leadership opportunities, and a network of relationships with other family child care providers. The Network is a high-touch program built on best practices in early childhood consultation and teacher mentoring.

All Our Kin tool Kit Licensing Program

All Our Kin and Connecticut Children’s Museum

Through the tool Kit program, a collaboration with the Connecticut Children’s Museum, All Our Kin provides materials, mentorship and support to help unlicensed family, friend and neighbor caregivers meet health and safety standards, fulfill state licensing requirements, and become part of a professional community of child care providers. The tool Kits include application materials, health and safety supplies, vouchers for first aid training, and curriculum materials such as educational toys and high-quality children’s books.

Allyship

The Anti Opression Network

The Anti-Oppression Network is a coalition of individuals, grassroots groups, and community organizations dedicated to grounding our work towards liberation in the principles of decolonization, anti-oppression and intersectionality

A Look at Early Childhood in Berea College Promise Neighborhood

U.S. Department of Education, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Part of the “Pipeline Profiles" series, this video highlights the work of the Berea College Promise Neighborhood in creating a strong early childhood segment of their cradle-to-career pipeline.

American Academy of Pediatrics Breastfeeding Initiatives

American Academy of Pediatrics

Positive breastfeeding support from physicians, nurses, and other health professionals has been shown to increase the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. Mothers care what their doctors and nurses think about breastfeeding and communicating a positive message can make all the difference in how they choose to feed their children. The American Academy of Pediatrics works diligently to ensure that health professionals are educated about breastfeeding and able to support breastfeeding families.

American Indians in Children's Literature

Dr. Debbie Reese & Dr. Jean Mendoza

Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books as well as resources for working with indigenous communities.

American Indians in Children's Literature: Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?

Dr. Debbie Reese & Dr. Jean Mendoza

A list of resources and guidance for practicing land acknowledgements published by the AICL.

America's Schools Provide Much More than Lessons; Children Out of School Need Congressional Action Now

Children's Defense Fund

Published by Children's Defense Fund, this policy brief provides a policy analysis on COVID-19 and its impact on school aged children.

An Anti-Racist Approach to Supporting Child Care Through COVID-19 and Beyond

The Center for Law and Social Policy

This brief explains the origins of long-standing racial inequities in child care and early education, examines how the COVID-19 crisis has exposed and exacerbated these inequities, and offers recommendations for how policymakers, advocates, and other stakeholders can address them to rebuild a stronger, more equitable system.

An Assessment of the Sustainability and Impact of Community Coalitions once Federal Funding has Expired

NORC at the University of Chicago

This report examines the long-term sustainability and impact of community coalitions that were funded by the Community Access Program (CAP) and its successor, the Healthy Communities Access Program (HCAP). CAP/HCAP was one of the largest federal investments to strengthen local safety nets through community coalitions providing $525 million in grants from 2000 to 2006 to 260 coalitions across 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This study utilized the experience of the HCAP grantees as a lens to explore the sustainability and impact of community coalitions once their initial federal funding has expired.

An Emergency Policy Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19): National Opportunities to Address the Needs of Families With Young Children and Promote Equity Amid Public Health and Economic Crises

Children's HealthWatch

Written by the Children's HealthWatch team, this brief provides critically important considerations as the nation responds to the COVID-19 crisis in an effort to promote the wellbeing of children and their families

A New Way to Talk about the Social Determinants of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A framework created for talking about the social determinants of health. Not just for people working in the field, but for policy-makers. This framing seeks to approach the topic in a way that people could understand, that was meaningful, and that didn’t align the topic with any existing political perspective or agenda.

Anthropometric assessment of energy-protein malnutrition and subsequent risk of mortality among preschool aged children

Chen, Chowdhury, and Huffman

This research study assess the effectiveness of body indicators (height-for-weight, arm circumference, etc) in predicting the risk of morality in a cohort of Bangladeshi children. The study further analyzed the discriminating powers of each indicator and found that all indicators discriminated mortality risk.

A Pandemic Within a Pandemic - How Coronavirus and Systemic Racism Are ​Harming Infants and Toddlers of Color.

Center for Law and Social Policy

This timely, eye-opening brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) will give you much to think about as you work to build back a better system for young children and families. The brief calls out the wide ranging disparities in health outcomes and economic stability and offers recommendations to tackle historically racist and discriminatory policies and address longer-term policy reform.

A Place to Get Started: Innovation in State Infant and Toddler Policies

Zero to Three

This policy brief developed by the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center describes eight strategies that policymakers can consider as they determine how to get started with developing infant-toddler policies, including examples of states currently implementing each of the strategies.

A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Division of Community Health

This comprehensive tool provides lessons learned and innovative ideas on how to maximize the effects of policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies; all with the goal of reducing health disparities and advancing health equity.

Arm circumference and other factors in children at high risk of death in rural Bangladesh

Briend, Wojtyniak and Rowland

Research study looking at mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) as a predictor of death in children aged 6-36 months from rural Bangladesh. This information may be used to target resources in poor communities where interventions have to be selective.

A Roadmap for Change: Black Women's National Health Policy Agenda 2025-2026

Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI)

This policy report provides both a roadmap and synthesis of current policies to advance Black women's health in the US. Indicates specific policy priorities such as expanding Medicaid, investing in birth workforce development, discussing complexities around AI usage, and more.

A Roadmap for Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities - The Four I’s for Health Equity

National Quality Forum

The National Quality Forum (NQF) created a roadmap for the U.S. healthcare system (i.e., providers and payers) to reduce health and healthcare disparities through performance measurement and associated policy levers. Focusing on selected conditions as case studies (e.g. cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, infant mortality/low birthweight, and mental illness), the roadmap lays out four actions: prioritizing measures that can help to identify and monitor disparities, implementing evidence-based interventions to reduce disparities, investing in the development and use of measures to assess interventions that reduce disparities, and providing incentives to reduce disparities.

Artolution

Artolution

A partner of Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), Artolution works so strengthen communities through the power of art.

Arts Corps

Arts Corps

A partner of Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), Arts Corps is revolutionizing arts education with culturally competent engagement of youth.

Ascend Network

Ascend at Aspen Institute

The Ascend Network is a national network of practitioners, policymakers, philanthropic leaders, and researchers advancing two-generation approaches for whole-family outcomes. Membership in the Ascend Network is a powerful and special opportunity to learn and connect with others around the country committed to identifying, developing, and implementing two-generation approaches.

Assessment of Severe Malnutrition Among Hospitalized Children in Rural Kenya

Berkley et al

This research article discusses measuring mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) as an accurate and cost-effective assessment of malnutrition. The study also seeks to evaluate MUAC and visible severe wasting as predictors of inpatient mortality at a district hospital in sub-Saharan Africa and to compare these with weight-for-height z score (WHZ).

A Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Communities Program

The Sustainability Planning Guide is a synthesis of science- and practice-based evidence designed to help coalitions, public health professionals, and other community stakeholders develop, implement, and evaluate a successful sustainability plan. The Guide provides a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, introduces various approaches to sustainability, and demonstrates sustainability planning in action with real-life examples.

A Theoretical Framework for Two-Generation Models

Urban Institute

This brief builds on the insights from the Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration to present an updated theoretical framework for two generation models. The framework emphasizes the importance of using family goals as the lens for targeting individual family members, setting individual goals, and aligning tailored appropriate solutions.

Basic Field Guide to the Positive (PD) Approach

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This serves as a basic guide to the positive deviance approach and provides essential tools for implementing successful positive deviance projects. It also includes basic definitions, guiding principles, steps, and process characteristics.

Becoming a Resonant Leader

McKee, Annie,et.al

Drawing from extensive multidisciplinary research and real-life stories, Resonant Leadership offers a field-tested framework for creating the resonance that fuels great leadership. Rather than constantly sacrificing themselves to workplace demands, leaders can manage the cycle using specific techniques to combat stress, avoid burnout, and renew themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. The book reveals that the path to resonance is through mindfulness, hope, and compassion and shows how intentionally employing these qualities creates effective and enduring leadership.

Behind from the Start: How America's War on the Poor is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children

Lenette Azzi-Lessing

Behind from the Start examines how punitive welfare policies and the treatment of poor parents maintain the cycle of chronic poverty.

Benefit Adequacy of SNAP from Institute of Medicine

National Academies Institute of Medicine

This report by the Institute of Medicine examines the evidence to define the adequacy of how SNAP benefits are allotted. They outline several factors to consider such as time of purchase, length it takes to prepare food, as well as the varying prices of medical and housing costs around the country. This report concludes that the above data points are not universals and therefore change how easy/difficult it is to live off of SNAP benefits.

Be Strong Families

Be Strong Families

Established in 2012, Be Strong Families partners to create transformative change by developing and sustaining conversations that nurture the spirit of family, promote well-being, and prevent violence.

Be the Hemingway of data science storytelling

John Weathington

This article discusses ways to tell great data stories through tips on formating and elements.

Beyond Brochures: Practicing “Soul Care” in the Recruitment of Teachers of Color

Jonathan Osler

This report identifies two interrelated problems: (1) although more than half of students in the United States are young people of color, their teachers are predominantly white; and (2) this gap is getting worse.

Beyond Lessons In The Field: Community Engagement in Promise Neighborhoods

PolicyLink

As part of a series of papers produced by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, this publication focuses on why partnerships is important for those building strong leadership for a supported, respectful, long-lasting Promise Neighborhood.

Beyond Lessons In The Field: FInancing in Promise Neighborhoods

PolicyLink

As part of a series of papers produced by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, this publication focuses on successful strategies towards finance and sustainability of community-based efforts.

Beyond the Binary: Supporting Genderqueer Pregnancy and Parenthood

Ana V. Soto-Sánchez

This blog post details best practices to support genderqueer individuals throughout their birthing journeys. It outlines how to navigate prenatal and postpartum care and provides healthcare providers and birth support workers with recommendations to create an inclusive, supportive environment for their clients.

Beyond the Grant: A Sustainable Financing Workbook

The Ripple Foundation

Long-term, sustainable financing is a major challenge for the majority of multisector partnerships, and the organizations aligned with them, in regions across the country. Many depend overwhelmingly on short-term sources of funding—namely, grants. It’s time to explore new financing frontiers!

Birth Equity Funders Landscape report

Funders for Birth Justice & Equity

Provides an overview of key birth equity funders and equitable grantmaking practices by emphasizing participatory approaches and donor accountability.

Birth Rights: A Resource for Everyday People to Defend Human Rights During Pregnancy and Birth

Pregnancy Justice, Elephant Circle, and Birth Justice Bar

This rights toolkit provides an overview of individual rights during pregnancy and birth, including identifying medical and obstetric racism, tips for responding to a rights violation, and legal action that can be taken after a violation.

Black Mamas Matter: Advancing The Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Healthcare

Black Mamas Matter Alliance & Center for Reproductive Rights

This toolkit has helped lay the groundwork for policy change while highlighting Black mamas’ human right to safe and respectful care. It provides a comprehensive overview of information and resources on Black maternal health and identifies action policymakers can take to address maternal health within the human rights and reproductive justice frameworks.

Black Maternal and Infant Health Disparities through the Lenses of Anti-Black Racism, Intersectionality, and Afrofuturism

NCBDI Black Infant and Maternal Health Task Force, Leah Hairston

This report examines how systemic racism and overlapping forms of oppression shape health inequities for Black mothers and infants. By incorporating Afrofuturism, it reimagines possibilities for equitable futures, centering Black voices and transformative approaches to care.

Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda

The Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda provides policy recommendations on 25 different issue areas in relation to the social, economic, political, and health needs of Black women, femmes, girls, and gender-expansive people.

Blog: Overcoming Common Communication Challenges: A 3 Part Series for Advocates

Berkeley media Studies Group

In this blog series, a range of strategic communication challenges that both novice and seasoned advocates often face is addressed with tips that advocates can use across multiple issue areas.

Blueprint for Belonging

Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley

The Blueprint for Belonging project is a collaborative initiative of over 20 organizations united in achieving transformative change in California through the development of a strategic narrative centered on an outcome of inclusion and belonging for all marginalized groups.

Boston Children's Museum Parent Educator Resources

Includes a multitude of free, online resources related to educational and after school activities for families and educators.

Brain-Based Early Learning Activities

Nikki Darling-Kuria

Brain-Based Early Learning Activities provides background information on brain development and how the brain learns, stores memory, and builds executive function. Also included are tips to help you create a brain-rich learning environment.

Breastfeeding Advocacy toolkit

K4 Health

The Breastfeeding Advocacy toolkit is intended to ensure stakeholders are able to easily access and use advocacy tools aimed at improving policies and financing for the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding and Baby Friendly Resources

Center for Health Equity, Education and Research

This site contains a wealth of resources pertaining to breastfeeding and baby friendly initiaitves. This includes policy statements and position papers, patient education materials, training for healthcare professionals, and information on breastfeeding as it pertains to the workplace, scripture, and the law.

Breastfeeding Coalition Targets Racial Disparities, Workforce Development

Karen Morales

Read all about how the Vital Village Network's Breastfeeding Coalition is working to support breastfeeding families by targeting racial disparities and workforce development.

Breastfeeding improves survival, but not nutritional status, of 12-35 months old children in rural Bangladesh

Briend and Bari

This research study examined the association between breastfeeding, nutritional status, and survival in a cohort of Bangladeshi children. The study found that risk of dying was higher in non-breastfed malnourished children than in similarly malnourished breastfed children. The authors suggest the breastfeeding beyond one year should be encouraged in communities with a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Breath of Life Theory

Cindy Blackstock, PhD

This paper presents an introduction to the Breath of Life Theory (BOL). A basic premise of this theory is that the structural affects of children well-being are alleviated when relational worldview principles and in balance with the cuture of the community. This theory has implications for social work policy and practice.

Bright Spots

Campaign for Grade Level Reading

Bright Spots are schools, programs and communities nationwide using innovative and promising strategies to help low-income children read at grade level. This is a compilation of national Bright Spot organizations.

Budgeting Best Practices

Nonprofit Finance Fund

The Nonprofit Finance Fund designed this case study to help your organization craft an easy to use Excel budget template.

Build Healthy Places Resource Library

Build Healthy Places

This resource library provides access to research, best practices, and models demonstrating what works and highlighting the health-related value of community development work.