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A Snapshot of EOBHC
Building Healthy Communities (BHC) has been a ten-year, $1 billion comprehensive statewide
community transformation effort launched by The California Endowment (TCE) in 2010, with
planning activities occurring as early as in 2008. BHC’s purpose was to advance policy reform,
change the narrative, and transform 14 California communities most devastated by health inequities
into places where all people have an opportunity to thrive.
Armed with a set of forty-plus outcomes, a set of “drivers of change,” and embedded TCE grantand change-making staff, BHC invited East Oakland residents and community-based organizations
(CBOs) to envision what a healthy East Oakland would look like. EOBHC centered its work in racial
equity principles and was guided by social determinants of health as it sought to organize for
power, systemic change, and resident decision making.
As one of the 14 BHC communities, TCE awarded grants to organizations based in Oakland
working on the following issues: housing, transportation, economic development, healthcare,
peace promotion (previously known as violence prevention), youth development, food access, and
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