Turning Great Ideas into Healthier Communities

Program

California Convergence Coordinating Office

The California Convergence is a regionally organized, statewide network that unites community leaders and partners to collectively build equitable, safe and healthy communities where everyone participates and prospers.  Convergence is governed and guided by a statewide, community-led steering committee, with administrative, communication, policy and evaluation-related support from PHI’s California Convergence Coordinating Office and statewide partners.

Program Director(s)

Lisa Hershey

Program Site

http://www.californiaconvergence.org/

Projects

Incentives Program to Promote Community Health Improvements

The California Convergence Program will incentivize organizational partners to strengthen actions and stories that build the movement for environmental and policy changes that improve community health in California.

Tides Foundation for Convergence Partnership

This program will strengthen the development of California Convergence’s sustainable partnership infrastructure that promotes shared leadership and decision-making. It will launch an unprecedented effort to engage the philanthropic community to collectively actualize the vision of healthy people in healthy places.