"Never before have so many federal agencies and legions of leaders across America been able to organize around the same set of vital conditions in a common quest to thrive together.”  

Organizing around vital conditions

By Monte Rouiler, Community Initiatives

Three years ago at the beginning of COVID-19,  contributors from over 100 leading non-governmental organizations, networks and local community collaboratives channeled their collective wisdom, over the course of 8 weeks, to create the Thriving Together Springboard. It was a bold articulation of how this country and our communities could spring forward with greater well-being, equity, and racial justice.



Fast forward to November of 2022 where a dedicated cross-agency federal workgroup has advanced and released The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience with the support of 45 federal agencies. The plan to enhance well-being and justice is designed around the same Thriving Together Springboard and both efforts are built on the premise (and overwhelming evidence) that transformational change requires consistent investment in the seven vital conditions for health and well-being that shape everyone’s potential to thrive.

Thriving Together provides a unifying narrative, an increasingly welcome counter to the narratives designed to divide and ultimately deplete us. The narrative is coupled with achievable strategies and investments for intergenerational well-being and equity:

• Balancing long-range and short-range + downstream and upstream actions and investments
• Acknowledging past legacies of harms and injustice + creating new legacies of belonging and inclusion
• Offering hope + pragmatism
• Centering on community + aligning federal and local level actions and investments

During a recent Generating Momentum for Thriving Together meeting, we heard compelling signals of progress: aligning local and federal and actions to advance climate justice; reimagining and activating the power of the Community Health Centers; engaging West Virginia’s businesses, local communities and state leaders in shared learning and action; and multi-solving by incentivizing investments in sustainable and equitable food systems.

Each of these efforts highlights why Thriving Together places an emphasis on Together, showing the power of multi-sector, trans partisan and multiracial endeavors.



While the momentum is real, it is also fragile. The status quo or resigning to despair can be easy fallbacks. This digest celebrates all the efforts, examples and resources propelling us forward. And it’s an invitation to see and share your role in the growing movement toward All people and places thriving together—no exceptions!

Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery & Resilience in Communities Across America

Generating Momentum for Thriving Together

The civil sector and Federal partners are coming together to lift up progress and areas of momentum, discover interests and appetite for learning and action together, and to build connections and strengthen relationships within and across national, state, and local entities.

Recovery to Renewal:

Unprecedented Opportunities

Centering Equity

With Somava Saha

IMAGINE FOX CITIES

A model of thriving together

Must-Listen Conversations For You!

Building A Sense Of Belonging And Civic Muscle

How is the work evolving during this legacy moment? What does it look like to build a sense of belonging and civic muscle through authentic community engagement? And what are the opportunities and momentum for moving from recovery to renewal?

Invoking the Spirit of the Salmon to Tackle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Discrimination often emerges unconsciously. This episode unpacks how Equality and equity are different – and why equity is more important for creating fair outcomes.

Inclusion In The Outdoors

This episode discusses why everyone doesn't have the same access to positive outdoor experiences in the Fox Valley, and what’s being done about it?

Giving Diverse People a Seat at the Table is Not Enough

Diversity is most needed – and hardest to embrace – in times of uncertainty. This episode explores why Inclusion goes beyond having the right processes to having the right culture. Listening is as important as giving people a seat at the table.

How Politics Is Like Surfing

Overall, get some info on Hawai’ian activist history, a fair amount of historical and modern land use info, and a lot of good wisdom about leadership in governing.  

Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America.

Join fellow community change makers this Wednesday for a tour of the new Health Impact Assessment Community Commons Space

Learn about health in all policies and browse hundreds of assessments nationwide.

Beach Fire

By Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate

Health Impact Assessment

Health impact assessment (HIA) is a key strategy that supports organizations and governments to identify and integrate health-promoting policies and practices so that health becomes a key component in all community decision-making.

Intergenerational Fairness Observatory

Putting intergenerational fairness into practice



The School of International Futures (SOIF) has developed an Intergenerational Fairness Incubator and Framework and is working with a number of countries and intergovernmental organizations to operationalize the framework.

The observatory helps decision makers to act in ways that are more intergenerationally fair within communities, countries, regions and across global systems.

26 July - Rural Rental Housing Preservation Academy: Understanding Tax Implications of a Transfer

July 26, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MT

26 July - Tribal Nation and Native-led Bison Restoration & Economy: The Opportunity to Engage and Support

July 26, 2023, 3:00 PM ET

26 July - Hepatitis B Infection Control in Healthcare Settings

July 26, 2023, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

26 July - Lessons from Cities Around the World: Sustainability and Resilience through Green Schoolyards

July 26, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

10 Aug - Designing Community Strategies and Building Cross-Sector Teams

Aug 10, 2023, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT

27 July - Youth Development and Nature Connection Framework

July 27, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT



Become A Fellow

In recognition of the longstanding history of the relationship between The Indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada, and those who continue its legacy, the 2023 Indigenous Communities Fellowship is open to all innovators supporting community-based solutions by and for Indigenous communities across the United States and Canada.

Challenge Open: February 1, 2023

Deadline to Submit: May 11, 2023

Solve Challenge Finals: September 18, 2023

Secure Funding

Leonard-Litz LGBTQ Foundation: LGBTQ+ Community Grants (New Hampshire)

Type: Foundation

Due Date: Rolling

Match Required: No Cost Share

Overview: The purpose of this program is to help LGBTQ+ people fulfill their potential by funding nonprofit organizations that advance the interests and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community through advocacy and with programs and services that meet the needs of LGBTQ+ people. Funding will be provided for life-affirming services that address one or more of the following focus areas:

• Health and wellness
• Crisis intervention
• Racial justice
• Advocacy and community engagement
• Social assistance and programming

Huntington National Bank: Charitable Grant Program (Wisconsin)

Type: Foundation

Due Date: Rolling

Match Required: No Cost Share

Overview: The purpose of this program is to contribute to the development of healthy, vibrant communities. Funding will support projects that improve self-sufficiency and quality of life, as well as advance social and economic equality, in communities served by the funding agency.

Support will be provided for projects in the following focus areas:

• Community revitalization and stabilization 
• Community services 
• Affordable housing 
• Economic and community development 
• Racial/social equity



National Indian Health Board

Type: Foundation

Due Date: August 18th, 2023

Match Required: No Cost Share

Overview: The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is accepting applications for two funding opportunities that can assist Tribes and Tribal organizations to scale up and strengthen their local response and preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics.

• Infection Control Grant: Supporting Tribes and Tribal organizations to reinforce infection control measures that reduce occupational exposures in healthcare settings and provide infection control training on infection prevention and control principles.
• Infectious Disease Threat Grant: supporting Tribes and Tribal organizations in implementing layered prevention strategies to avoid infectious disease threats.