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3 Leveraging Resources to Advance Equity in Rural Areas
Pages 19-28

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From page 19...
... • If people feel defeated by poverty, unemployment, and a lack of social support, their health is not necessarily their top priority. (Browning)
From page 20...
... It is diverse in race, age, political ideology, and educational attainment. The Black Belt Community Foundation seeks to enhance this dynamic region by investing in programs and organizations that aim to bring communities together.1 Many African Americans within the Black Belt still reside in the areas where their slave ancestors once lived.
From page 21...
... Its community grants program provides support for a wide variety of projects, including volunteer fire departments and tutorial programs. As a specific example, Lucky described Project United, which is a partnership between the foundation's community associates and the University of Alabama's School of Medicine and Rural Health to conduct research on health disparities in the region.
From page 22...
... It works to build a sustainable base of resources to support community-led organizations seeking to overcome and address issues of race, economic status, gender, sexual identity, and disability in central Appalachia. Browning described the fund's vision: • To work for the day when Appalachia's land, air, and water are safe from destruction and contamination • Where the economy is stable, strong, and provides diverse employ ment opportunities for all people • Where government and industry are accountable to human needs without exploitation of people and their health • Where justice, equity, appreciation of diversity, and celebration of our common humanity replace racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other "isms" • Where wealth and resources are shared equally • Where all children grow up free from hatred and violence • Where justice overcomes oppression in any form Appalachia has a powerful history, said Browning, as does Alabama and many other parts of the United States.
From page 23...
... It supports a wide range of tools to work for social change, including community organizing, coalition building, community education, training, cultural work, and advocacy. The fund addresses systemic issues of inequity and forms of oppression, especially racism, with the understanding that the methods used to unlearn racism can also be applied to other isms, such as sexism and ageism.
From page 24...
... THE CON ALMA HEALTH FOUNDATION The mission of the Con Alma Health Foundation is to be aware of and respond to the health rights and needs of the culturally and demographically diverse people and communities of New Mexico, to improve health status and access to health care, and to advocate for health policies that will address the health needs of all. The foundation seeks to engage multifield and multisector stakeholders, including the public sector, the business sector, and the private nonprofit sector, explained Dolores Roybal, the foundation's executive director.
From page 25...
... This funding expanded the foundation's work in health equity beyond ethnic and racial disparities to the built environment and food access policies, explained Roybal. It has made multiyear grants to the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty Healthcare Access Project, which has been working to remove barriers to Medicaid or exchange coverage for low-income individuals, and to the New Mexico Community Health Worker Association to recruit, train, and mentor community health workers to assist with the certification efforts of the 2014 Community Health Worker Act in New Mexico, which allows promotoras to receive reimbursement through third-party payers for their work.
From page 26...
... It is a majority minority state, said Roybal, with a population that is about 50 percent Hispanic, 10 percent Native American, and 3 percent African American, along with other ethnic and racial groups, and it is becoming more diverse. It is the fifth largest state in the nation, and infrastructure is lacking in some areas.
From page 27...
... Roybal offered a story. When the ACA was first implemented, the Con Alma Health Foundation went to advocates to organize a multisector advisory committee, but advocates said that they did not want to work with government representatives, and when the foundation approached government representatives, they said that they did not want to work with advocates.
From page 28...
... They have served on committees with us. They see themselves as a part of the infrastructure of the Black Belt Community Foundation.


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