New War on Poverty

The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University released a new magazine, Pathways. The inaugural issue takes on one of the most basic policy questions of our time: How, if at all, might a new war on poverty be fought? Featuring essays by Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama. This subscription is free.....You will need to fill out your information on this link. http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/media_magazines.html

Pathways, Winter 2008-New War on Poverty
http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/pdfs/pathways/winter_2008/winter_2008.pdf

Childhood Obesity

Future of Children, Spring 2006 "Childhood Obesity issue" has several great articles on child obesity. Obese has doubled from 15 percent in the 1970's to nearly 30 percent today.

http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info2825/pubs-info_show.htm?doc_id=349724

California Uninsured 2007 Report

California Healthcare Foundation. Snapshot: California’s Uninsured 2007. California Healthcare Foundation. Nov 2007.

The number of uninsured Californians under age 65 continues to rise as employer-sponsored health insurance declines. Some who lose insurance at their workplace are buying individual policies; others become eligible for coverage through public programs like Medi-Cal. http://www.chcf.org/documents/insurance/SnapshotUninsured07.pdf

2008 California Report Card: State of Children

This is an staggering fact: 763,000 children still do not have health insurance in California, and more than a million California children do not have regular access to a doctor in 2007.

The findings are found in The 2008 California Report Card: The State of the State's Children from Children's Now. The new 40-page report detailing how California children are faring and informing the agenda for critical children’s health and education policy improvements needed in 2008.
http://publications.childrennow.org/assets/pdf/policy/rc08/ca-rc-2008.pdf

Place-Based Health

What do you think of Place-Based Health? Have you heard of this term? I heard of this term when I had to research this term for my supervisor. It's very interesting that Annie E Casey Foundation is the earliest foundation to use place-base term for many years. Now more foundations are catching on and using this term as one of their goal areas.



Moving Forward While Staying In Place: Embedded Funders and Community Change. Chapin Hall. 2004
This study examines a group of eleven foundations actively engaged in place-based community-change initiatives. Foundations included in the study grant money directly to outside organizations or individuals, are located in the community in which they invest, and have staff and trustees who are personally engaged in the community-change work. http://www.chapinhall.org/article_abstract.aspx?ar=1379