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Lessons from an equity toolkit workshop: facilitator perspective on participatory engagement

Blue Shield of California Foundation led a workshop for health funders at the 2023 Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual conference held in Minneapolis.

Blue Shield of California Foundation and Cristobal Consulting

Portrait of Bernadette Choudhary

Care is essential, care is love, and care connects us all

Care work is skilled work that should be compensated. Care work allows all other forms of work to take place. Care work is vital to our economy.

Portrait of RocQuel Johnson

Toolkit helps practice equity in multisector collaboration

The Equity in Multisector Collaboration toolkit is a comprehensive resource to deepen equity for collaborations. It focuses on five equity capabilities and includes an assessment for collaboratives to understand where they are in their equity journey.

A staff member high-fives students on the yard of The Primary School in the San Francisco Bay Area

All In For Kids: What collaboratives have to teach us about preventing childhood trauma and domestic violence

What some child- and family-serving organizations in California — members of a collaborative called All In For Kids — are learning about ways to prevent domestic violence and other childhood trauma.

Martin Ricard

Portrait of Margaret Tobias Grier

Humanity at the heart of systems change: highlights from a convening of Foundation grantees

Margaret Tobias Grier shares a story about a recent convening of 26 grantee partners to talk about the systems change work each organization is advancing, the wins, and the challenges.

Part of a map depicting systems involved in domestic violence

Changing the conversation about domestic violence

A behind-the-scenes look at our campaign to shift perceptions.

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