The Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota provided funding to organizations through the Health Equity in Prevention initiative to advance health equity through policy, systems, and environmental changes. Wilder Research conducted a review of tools than can assess organizational capacity to advance health equity. Evaluation work included conducting ripple effect mapping discussions with HEiP-funded organizations to understand project impacts. Reports also highlight policy work and lessons learned.
Over the past five years, Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community’s Fair Food Access campaign has used multiple strategies to improve food access in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth. We conducted a ripple effects mapping session to identify the impacts of implementing policy, systems, and environmental changes.
Over the past five years, Appetite for Change and the Northside Fresh coalition have used multiple strategies to improve food systems in north Minneapolis. We conducted a ripple effects mapping session to identify the impacts of implementing policy, systems, and environmental changes.
Open Door implemented policy, systems, and environmental changes to increase equitable food access across Dakota County, MN. This report documents a ripple effect mapping session that captured impacts of Open Door over five years.
This document summarizes the implementation of policy, systems, and environmental changes that were part of the Health Equity in Prevention (HEiP) initiative.
This document summarizes the implementation of policy, systems, and environmental changes that were part of the Health Equity in Prevention (HEiP) initiative.
This summary describes findings from a ripple effect mapping session with Rainbow Health Initiative (RHI) stakeholders. They discussed RHI’s impact on influencing policy and legislation related to LGBTQ health and expanding awareness of LGBTQ health issues.
Results of a 2017 Ripple Effect Mapping session that asked key stakeholders about Waite House’s urban agriculture work and its efforts through the Phillips Community Healthy Living Initiative.
This brief report is part of work through the Health Equity in Prevention initiative funded through the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to advance health equity through policy, systems, and environmental changes in the areas of healthy eating, tobacco control, and active living. It looks at the network of partnerships for one of the funded organizations, Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES) and considers how that network has changed over time and the impact of partnerships on CLUES’ work.
These are the results of the Ripple Effect Mapping exercise done with Appetite for Change (AFC) and stakeholders regarding their Health Equity in Prevention funded work. AFC buys produce directly from small, community-based growers who do not grow enough food to have their own table at the farmers market and sells it at the Aggregation and Distribution Table, a community-led farmers market vendor. This report highlights successful strategies and lessons learned from the program.
This brief discusses the Ripple Effect Mapping (REM) approach to evaluation, including the process, benefits, limitations, and how it was used to evaluate the efforts of 10 HEiP-funded organizations working to implement policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes to advance health equity in their respective communities.
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