We want our political leaders, our national leaders, our corporate leaders, our education leaders, church leaders—we want everybody to start honoring each other and listening to each other and caring for one another.
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ReThink Health, with the WIN Network, is part of a growing group of people and organizations who see ourselves—and each other—as shared stewards of well-being and justice: We are responsible for working across differences to create conditions that all people need to thrive, beginning with those who are struggling and suffering.
As stewards, we develop our abilities to:
- Take responsibility for forming working relationships with others to transform well-being;
- Serve as natural boundary spanners because we strive to be informed by place-based, interdisciplinary, multisector, and multicultural perspectives; and
- Understand that purpose must be larger than just ourselves and our organization, power must be built and distributed with others, and wealth must be invested to create long-term value as well as address short-term urgent needs.
We recognize that it is not possible to counter systemic threats by delivering more and more services to growing groups of people in need. In fact, our tendency to over-rely on expert-led, technocratic responses often disempowers people, squanders resources, and is itself part of the problem.
Instead, we must become multisolvers: more likely to look through a macroscope than a microscope, to connect rather than go solo, and to solve for many goals at once rather than switch from one crisis to another. We can find new ways to work together, expanding the belonging and civic muscle we need to shape a more vibrant, thriving commonwealth.
This edition of the WIN Digest is the first in a three-part series to introduce stewardship, share resources related to stewardship, and highlight how stewards are transforming communities across the country.
Learn more about how we can thrive together through shared stewardship on Thriving.US.
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Amplifying Stewardship: Characteristics and Trends Stewards Consider When Expanding Equitable Well-Being
This report profiles characteristics of people who are not only impressive stewards, but also are helping to grow the entire field of system stewardship for well-being. It describes what prompts them to set new standards for what system changers can do while also inspiring many other people and organizations to join them in this work.
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Insight Spotlight Series: Hospital Systems in Transition
This blog post from ReThink Health focuses on how three hospitals are aiming to become stewards, exploring and defining their role in shaping their region’s health and well-being.
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Artwork and Poetry to Build Well-Being
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People, Parks, and Power - Call for Proposals
People, Parks, and Power (P3) is a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, led and managed by Prevention Institute. P3 will support community-based organizations and base-building groups working in urban, low-income communities of color across the United States to increase park equity through local policy and systems change.
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Unsung Stewards: Pat McNamara
Community-Driven Response to the Pandemic
In times of crisis, organizations can resort to top-down responses. But when his community faced COVID-19, Pat McNamara threw that playbook out the window. What if local leaders were the ones naming their needs and aspirations? In the first episode of #UnsungStewards, Pat shares how his team shifted to a hyperlocal approach.
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Unsung Stewards: Fred Brown
Collaborating for Health Equity Amid Trauma
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many health systems did not prioritize Black and Brown communities. When faced with this reality in Pittsburgh, Fred Brown founded the Black COVID-19 Equity Coalition to increase COVID-19 testing and address the social determinants of health for his community. From a self-defined “street kid” to school teacher to probation officer, Brown’s range of life experiences shaped how he approaches systemic change.
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Thriving Together Through Shared Stewardship
Thriving conveys our commitment to create communities where all people have a fair chance to participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. What will it take for everyone to thrive together?
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TOOLS TO BUILD WELL-BEING
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Medical Algorithms Are Failing Communities Of Color
Medical algorithms are expected to make quick, precise decisions that help providers diagnose and treat patients faster and more efficiently. Despite their ubiquity, medical algorithms’ fatal flaw is that they are often built on biased rules and homogenous data sets that do not reflect the patient population at large.
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Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity
Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity contains a variety of tools that emerged from Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in arts organizations.
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Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT), Columbus, Ohio
PACT successfully brought partners together in Columbus, Ohio by recognizing the unique asset and strategic position of each partner, identifying mission alignment, and working in ways that leverage each partner’s capabilities
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Fall Racial Justice Community Series
Wednesdays 3:30 - 5 PM EST
September 29th - December 15th
The WE/WIN Together Racial Justice Community offers a series of virtual gatherings that aims to provide not only education on the matter of race, but also offers a safe place for others to ask the hard questions.
In today’s climate, it is no longer a question of IF you should learn about racial justice, but when and how.
If you’re asking yourself when to start, the answer is now. If you’re asking yourself how to start, the answer is with The WIN Network.
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The Power of Voice / La Fuerza de la Voz
Join the Metropolitan Group for a timely discussion on how to achieve health equity by advancing racial justice during a time of climate crisis.
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