Resource table of contents:
- Inclusive, Local Purchasing Resources
- Inclusive, Local Economic Development Resources
- Other Key Impact Purchasing Resources
1. Inclusive, Local Purchasing Resources
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE (AMIBA)
The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) is dedicated to helping communities become more self-supporting and resilient through fostering a culture that values and supports independent business and local entrepreneurs. AMIBA helping communities launch and successfully operate an Independent Business Alliance® (IBA), as well as providing extensive support, templates and resources for chambers, downtown organizations, local governments, independent trade associations and other entities working to help their local independent businesses thrive. Read more about the economic multiplier benefit from supporting locally owned businesses.
FIELD GUIDE FOR HEALTH SECTOR LEADERSHIP
This guide from the Business Alliance for Living, Local Economies (BALLE) is designed to help health care institutions to align the non-clinical assets of their organizations – from hiring to purchasing, investing to operations and facilities – with what actually works to build health in people and communities.
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR
Authored by REDF, this paper aims to explore how social enterprises can collaborate with and fulfill the existing needs of large healthcare institutions, from both a procurement and hiring standpoint, to create living wage career pathways for people, leading to stronger health outcomes.
2. Inclusive, Local Economic Development Resources
COMMON FUTURE
Common Future connects and supports a growing movement of local leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and funders who are building local economies that work for all.
U3 ADVISORS
U3 Advisors is a national consulting practice that provides real estate and economic development solutions to the institutions that anchor our communities.
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE (ILSR)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) – ILSR provides innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. It champions local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly scaled institutions and economies and the widest possible distribution of ownership.
INTERISE
Interise licenses its Streetwise ‘MBA’™ to partners who deliver it through their own locally branded programs. Delivered by its partners, its capacity-building Streetwise ‘MBA’™ provides small business owners with the knowledge, know-how, and networks they need to achieve scale.
3. Other Key Impact Purchasing Resources
ANCHOR INSTITUTIONS TOOLKIT
Prepared by The Netter Center for Community Partnerships and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), this anchor institutions toolkit is intended to serve as a guide for neighborhood revitalization and share lessons learned from Penn’s work as an anchor institution in West Philadelphia.
HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM
Health Care Without Harm seeks to implement ecologically sound and healthy alternatives to health care practices that pollute the environment and contribute to disease. It offers resources, tools and best practices around healthcare practices for local food purchasing and environmentally preferable purchasing, among many other areas.
American Hospital Association’s Reducing Disparities in Health Outcomes
AHA’s Reducing Disparities in Health Outcomes, launched in 2015, builds on the efforts of the National Call to Action to Eliminate Health Care Disparities – a joint effort of the AHA, American College of Healthcare Executives, Association of American Medical Colleges, Catholic Health Association of the United States and America’s Essential Hospitals – and asks hospital and health system leaders to begin taking action to accelerate progress in reducing disparities.