Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is excited to share Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which contains a comprehensive set of learnings to date from anchor collaboratives nationwide about their collective strategies, and provides key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build momentum, and be sustainable.
The playbook provides a framework for partnership and action, centered on core anchor mission strategies and 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.