The Healthcare Anchor Network just released Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which captures a comprehensive set of learnings to date from this growing body of work on anchor collaborative’s collective strategies, including key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build momentum, and be sustainable.
This playbook provides a framework for partnership and action that offers the seeds for another way—a culture of collaboration and local investment—that can meaningfully address racial and economic inequities in place and strengthen local economies in the process.
Whether as a health system or other local anchor institution, funder, community partner, economic development practitioner or policymaker, you have a role to play in realizing a successful anchor collaborative in your community.