Promoting Health Equity

We believe that every person deserves an equal opportunity to be healthy and safe. Health equity guides all of our work.

Advancing Prevention

We work with communities, organizations, government, and philanthropy to design comprehensive primary prevention strategies in several Focus Areas.

Our Tools and Services help strengthen community environments, so all people can be healthy and safe.

See our featured work

New op-ed: Society Designed the Systems That Created COVID-19 Inequalities — We Can Redesign Them

New podcast: Cities respond to COVID-19

Spotlight

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

New video: MC:ID How We’re Staying Connected

New op ed: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19.

Preventing violence in our homes: Meeting this moment with connection, care, and justice

Op-ed: If we can safely distance at the grocery store, surely we can do the same at parks

Podcast: Coronavirus: from the urgency of reaction to the importance of long-term action

Read our annual report and find out what’s in store for next year.

New article: Stormwater Management is an Equity Issue

New policy brief: Healing LA Neighborhoods

Video: Prevention Institute: Partnering to achieve thriving, equitable communities

Featured initiative: Built Environment Policy Advocacy Fund

New op-ed: Screenings Alone Won’t Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences—We Must Address Community Trauma

New blog: Want to prevent violence? Go green.

Learn more about our tool Tools and services Services to support your work in these Focus Areas.

BLOG May 8, 2020

PI's Media Digest: Inequities in COVID-19 outcomes and response in African-American communities and the Navajo nation; healthcare sector job losses

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On Thurs, Oct 21 and Sat, Oct 23, join @HoggFoundation and PI virtually for the Young Minds Matter conference to co… t.co/ovxQk2dVMO

Urban parks and green spaces are vital for community health and well-being, yet #structuralracism has led to persis… t.co/Yl3japVUXV

$7M is available for community orgs. working to advance #ParkEquity through local policy change in urban areas acro… t.co/sA0YrKqZMM

New funding opportunity for base-building orgs! #PeopleParksPower is a $7M call for proposals from @RWJF,… t.co/c5I4CgkJsd

Nearly 50 Bay Area organizations have laid out 8 Essential Actions to protect #BayArea tenants from eviction. See t… t.co/xEhM65RViX