Introduction

• Income, employment and wealth, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
• Economic Stability, Healthy People 2030

1. Outside-in Strategies 

• Connecting People to Work: Workforce Intermediaries and Sector Strategies, Aspen Institute (2014)
• University Hospitals (UH): The Evolution of Step to UH and Earn-and-Learn Programs, Healthcare Anchor Network (2023)
• Dartmouth Health Workforce Development: Building sustainable talent pipelines in rural communities, Healthcare Anchor Network (2023)
• Rush Community Application Hub, RUSH
• United for Alice Wage Tool: Exploring the Impact of Wage Levels and Occupations on ALICE, United for Alice Wage
• Business Supplier Diversity, Healthcare Anchor Network (2023)
• Activating place-based partnerships for equitable economic development: A playbook for anchor collaboratives, Healthcare Anchor Network (2024)

2. Inside-up Strategies

• Activating place-based partnerships for equitable economic development: A playbook for anchor collaboratives, Healthcare Anchor Network (2024)
• New Arguments for Employer-Assisted Housing, New England Community Developments: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2006)
• Dartmouth Health: Building sustainable talent pipelines in rural communities, Healthcare Anchor Network (2023)

3. Laying the Foundations

• Making Neighborhood Disadvantage Metrics Accessible: The Neighborhood Atlas, The New England Journgal of Medicine (2018)
• About the Neighborhood Atlas® and Area Deprivation Index (ADI), Center for Health Disparities Research University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

6. Tools for Getting Started

• Shift Work Forward (Formerly the National Fund for Workforce Solutions)
  Shift Work Forward is a nationally powered, locally driven organization that partners with a network of regional workforce leaders to reshape systems of work and opportunity. Its work centers three key priorities:

  • addressing systemic to success in the workforce to ensure people have access to opportunities
  • transforming career navigation and training systems to create pathways to good jobs
  • engaging industry leaders to improve job quality in order to create workplaces where all workers have a chance to succeed

  Shift Work Forward offers many tools and resources on job quality, systems change, and industry partnerships. To learn more about Shift Work Forward visit: https://shiftworkforward.org/our-work/.

• The Aspen Institute
  The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit dedicated to fostering a free, just, and equitable society. It facilitates change through dialogue, leadership, and action to address various challenges faced by the United States and the international community. This engagement takes many forms, including conferences, events, programs, leadership initiatives, youth leadership programs, seminars, media resources, and collaborations with international partners. The Institute has built a strong reputation for bringing together a diverse array of nonpartisan thought leaders, creatives, scholars, and members of the public to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues.