Community Conversations for Healthy Investment
Community Conversations for Healthy Investment
The TransFormation Alliance (TFA) engaged the Georgia Health Policy Center to plan and facilitate a workshop on tax abatement for urban farms; reconvene a small group of community residents in order to guide the health equity lens of TFA activities; and support TFA and its stakeholders in promoting resilient, healthy, equitable communities through their actions, strategies, and policies. GHPC assisted TFA in engaging health systems around these strategies, coordinating with funders, and connecting partners. The project produced lessons for TFA and its regional health equity strategy. Project results include property tax reduction for urban Black-owned farms, increased investment in community-based food systems by grantmakers and anchor institutions, and the elevation of regional conversation around health equity.