This report is based on a 24-month project that brought together leaders from across the country who are directly working to address issues of powerlessness in communities disproportionately impacted by racial, economic, and environmental inequities.
The research question we set out to explore together was: How does community power catalyze, create, and sustain conditions for healthy communities? To answer this question, we applied our Changing States framework to understand the relationship between community power and pathways to healthy communities and the role of place (For more on Changing States, see Pastor, Ito, and Wander 2016).
