Community Health Innovation

CDC Offers Resources for Designing and Building Healthy Places

The way we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design integrates evidence-based health strategies into community planning, transportation, and land-use decisions.

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Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

The most difficult task for socially responsible companies is how to report the value of their work to a diverse group of stakeholders. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge brings together a set of articles to help leaders address these questions:

• What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics?
• How can nonprofit leaders balance demands form many stakeholders?
• How do I sell CSR (corporate social responsibility) to investors and other stakeholders during a financial crisis?
• How do I drive CSR through my organization?

Click here to access the full set of articles at HBS Working Knowledge.

New CDC Report Tells How to Design Communities to Support Good Health

ATLANTA, GA – April 15, 2010 – A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrates the importance of considering public health factors--such as physical activity, respiratory and mental health, water quality, social equity, healthy aging, and social capital --when creating the built environment. The report is the latest product of CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative, aimed at combating soaring rates of asthma, diabetes, and obesity by improving the way communities are designed.

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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

What is the right corporate social responsibility strategy in a severe economic downturn?

V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned and managed, such efforts can strategically tackle important societal issues and at the same time enhance business success, yielding a "double bottom line."

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