{"id":4473,"date":"2023-01-16T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?page_id=4473"},"modified":"2023-10-11T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:37:10","slug":"the-california-endowment-tce-organizing-evaluations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/publications\/the-california-endowment-tce-organizing-evaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"The California Endowment (TCE) – Organizing Evaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 to 2019, the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) published reports under our previous name, the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Pivot to Power: Lessons from The California Endowment\u2019s Building Healthy Communities about Place, Health, and Philanthropy<\/h3>\n

March 2018<\/p>\n

By Jennifer Ito, Manuel Pastor, May Lin, and Magaly Lopez<\/p>\n

A Pivot to Power: Lessons from The California Endowment\u2019s Building Healthy Communities about Place, Health, and Philanthropy<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0offers a mid-initiative assessment of TCE\u2019s 10-year investment in building \u201cpeople power\u201d capacity in 14 diverse communities. The report is based on surveys from grantees funded to organize in one or more of the 14 sites receiving grants through BHC and interviews with organizers, funders, intermediaries, and academics. The data is clear: There is evidence of increased capacity in BHC places to organize people who are usually excluded from the policymaking process such as documented and undocumented immigrants, young people, formerly incarcerated individuals, and LGBTQ individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Through campaigns, they are developing their voice, leadership, and advocacy skills to influence neighborhood, local, regional, and statewide decision-making processes.<\/p>\n

At the halfway mark, TCE has taken a bolder stance on people power. What had been considered a\u00a0driver<\/i>\u00a0of change is now\u00a0the<\/i>\u00a0change that it seeks to achieve. This report offers a discussion of what it means to pivot to people power as an end goal. And since the change in BHC is not intended to stay within BHC, this report offers three lessons for other comprehensive change initiatives, the health equity field, and philanthropy.<\/p>\n

Key lessons to pivot to power:<\/p>\n

LESSON #1: Place is a scale for change\u2014not just a stage for change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LESSON #2: Health equity is an opportunity to build power\u2014not just pass policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sustaining People Power<\/h3>\n

March 2018<\/p>\n

By Jennifer Ito, Manuel Pastor, May Lin, and Magaly Lopez<\/p>\n

Adapted from\u00a0A Pivot to Power,\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0Sustaining People Power\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>brief\u00a0<\/i>summarizes the organizing capacity supported by BHC and identifies key challenges and recommendations for sustaining capacity based on interviewee insights. Some of the recommendations drawn from\u00a0A Pivot to Power\u00a0<\/i>and lessons for the fields of philanthropy public health, and organizing include:<\/p>\n