Making connections across health, justice, and the environment can foster movements, expand power, and accelerate change. But bridge-building on cross-cutting issues—from safe drinking water to climate change and from racial equity to healthy housing—is not for the faint of heart. Just like building a bridge, making change at the intersection of issues requires long-term planning, investment, the right tools, and the right mix of people. Bringing these elements together can build something bigger and stronger, something that takes us to a new place.
Join bridge-builders, problem-solvers, and visionaries from a diversity of sectors at the Health & Environmental Funders Network’s 2016 Annual Meeting. We’ll gather in Oakland, California, in a region connected by bridges and animated by innovation and change to:
- Learn how environmental health initiatives and other movements are succeeding by transcending divisions and forging strategies with new partners.
- Be inspired by innovative local work and cross-community connections that increase local power and spread change.
- Strategize about building power through initiatives on safe drinking water, fracking, climate change, toxics, food, and agriculture.
- Experience new tools and technologies for working with allies in other sectors.
- Explore how national politics can help and hinder bridge-building efforts.
Come to Oakland to dive deep, problem solve, and consider new collaborations that build bridges and power for environmental health and justice.