Funding Power Ecosystems for Lasting Systems Change: A Training based on the Public Health & Racial Equity (PHaRE) Model 

A 4-Week Virtual Workshop for Grant Making Organizations

Learn how to apply the PHaRE Model to your place-conscious grantmaking to achieve transformative change. 

  • 4-Week workshop will occur on the following dates: February 20, February 27, March 6, and March 13, 2025 
  • Last day for early bird registration rate: January 23, 2025 (UPDATED DATE – extended by one week due to the California wildfires)
  • Last day to register for workshop: February 10, 2025 (UPDATED DATE – extended due to the California wildfires)

About the Workshop

Is your grantmaking organization committed to increasing funding for equity and systems change? Are you seeking to learn from communities that have successfully transformed systems and shifted power? The Population Health Innovation Lab, in partnership with the Ginger Lee Global Health Consulting Group, invites you to join us for a four-week workshop to improve your grantmaking efforts as informed by the Public Health and Racial Equity Model for Systems Change (PHaRE Model for Systems Change). PHaRE is a newly developed, evidence-based model grounded in lessons learned from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities’ 1,200+ successful systems and policy changes which were led by low-resourced communities.  Data from interviews with Program Managers and related document analysis have been overlaid with Complexity Theory and Multiple Streams Framework to produce this evidence-based model. 

This four-week workshop is designed specifically for grantmaking organizations focused on advancing systems change through place-based and place-conscious grantmaking.  The workshop, organized around the 5 Phases of the PHaRE Model for Systems Change, will equip you with strategies and tools to support the development of sustainable community power ecosystems and identify leverage points for transformative change. We will examine and discuss case studies to better understand the PHaRE Model in action. Community members that have been deeply involved in building power and transforming systems will join us at key points along our learning journey. We will then translate this deeper wisdom and knowledge into practical action plans to promote lasting change.    

Why You Should Join Us

  • Learn from Proven Success: Gain insights from an evidence-based model informed by more than 1,200 community-led successful systems and policy changes. 
  • Refine Your Grantmaking Approach: Equip yourself with practical strategies to support power ecosystems that advance health and racial equity from the start of a grantmaking effort to your exit plan. 
  • Engage with Community Wisdom: Participate in interactive discussions and hear directly from communities that are driving systems transformation. A portion of your registration fees compensates the community representative participants directly for their time and wisdom.  
  • Translate Knowledge into Action: Walk away with tangible tools to improve your grantmaking practices and create actionable, long-term plans for supporting lasting, systems change. 
  • Shape the Future of Philanthropy: Ensure your funding efforts contribute to meaningful transformations in low-resourced communities. 

What You’ll Learn

  • Build Power Ecosystems: Discover how to support ecosystems that drive lasting shifts in systems and policies. 
  • Identify Leverage Points for Deep Change: Learn how to identify key leverage points for impactful change at different stages of the systems-change process. 
  • Establish Trust-Based Philanthropy: Learn how philanthropy can approach communities with humility so that those most affected by conditions are able to reframe problems as systemic and design effective solutions that create deep change, rather maintain the status quo. 
  • Shift Narratives: Support communities to identify and dismantle harmful dominant discourses and conversely understand and amplify their own community-driven narratives that can lead to real systemic change. 
  • Meaningfully Engage with Low-Resourced Communities: Understand how the PHaRE Model equips you as a grantmaker to support and be accountable to the communities you serve, ensuring resources are used for deep, sustainable change.  

Who Should Enroll

  • CEOs, board members, program officers and staff members of grant-making organizations, including those from philanthropy and government. 
  • Grantmakers who wish to build community power in place-based and place-conscious settings.  
  • Grantmakers funding collaboratives in communities that face racial and income segregation. 
  • Grantmakers who wish to have a greater impact on systems and policy change. 

If you do not fit the above profile but are interested in attending the workshop, please email us at info@pophealthinnovationlab.org.

Registration

Workshop Rates

  • Early bird rate: $825 (processing fees included in ticket price) when you register by the early bird deadline of January 16, 2025, for your selected workshop 
  • Regular rate: $950 (processing fees included in ticket price) 
  • Group discount: There is a 20% discount off the regular workshop rate for any group registering at least 2 or more participants 

In addition to paying community members for their expertise and time during this workshop, a portion of the registration fees will be donated directly to the communities who participate in uplifting their stories during the training. 

Registration Deadlines

  • Last day for early bird registration rate: January 23, 2025 (UPDATED DATE – extended by one week due to the California wildfires)
  • Last day to register for workshop: February 10, 2025 (UPDATED DATE – extended due to the California wildfires)
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Cancellations and Refunds

Refunds are available, minus Eventbrite nonrefundable fees and a 10% fee for PHIL administration costs, if registrants contact us ahead of the cancellation deadlines listed in our FAQ below. Please review our FAQ for cancellation deadlines. 

Detailed Overview: Virtual 4-Week Workshop

Day 1: Overview of the PHaRE Model for Systems Change 

Agenda | February 20, 2025

(8 am – 10:30 am HT / 10 am – 12:30 pm PT / 11 am – 1:30 pm MT / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 1:00-3:30 pm ET)

Day 1 Learning Outcomes

After participating in Day 1, you will be able to:

  • Explain how a rural community successfully addressed structural racism to achieve the changes needed for increased equity. 
  • Discuss how community-driven change has been effective when power ecosystems are meaningfully supported by philanthropy. 
  • Identify components of the Public Health and Racial Equity (PHaRE) Model for Systems Change and where your organization falls within the model. 

Agenda

I. Setting the Stage

II. The Significance of Place 

III. Case Study: Successful Community Driven Systems and Policy Changes

IV. Break

V. Overview of the PHaRE Model

VI. Homework & Closing

Day 2: Phases 1 & 2 of the PHaRE Model: Grantmaker Readiness and Preparation for Transformative Change

Agenda | February 27, 2025

(8 am – 10:30 am HT / 10 am – 12:30 pm PT / 11 am – 1:30 pm MT / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 1:00-3:30 pm ET)

Day 2 Learning Outcomes

After participating in Day 2, you will be able to:

  • Determine whether power building and trust-based philanthropy are right for your organization.
  • Be prepared for potential threats and know in advance whether your organization can hold its ground in support of the communities they fund. 
  • Assess your organization’s risk tolerance and capacity to support health and racial equity with the PHaRE Readiness Assessment. 
  • Understand community vulnerability and risk in pushing for systems change.
  • Based on gaps identified in the PHaRE Readiness Assessment, identify areas where more training or learning is needed within your organization with the PHaRE Continuous Learning Tool. 

Agenda

I. Welcome and Reflection as a Practice 

  • The importance and power of internal reflection 
  • Embracing discomfort regarding conversations about racial equity
  • Continuous learning

II. Phase 1 of the PHaRE Model: Grantmaker Readiness

III. Break

IV. Phase 2 of the PHaRE Model: Preparation for Transformative Change

V. Example from the Field

VI. Homework & Closing

Day 3: Phases 3 & 4 of the PHaRE Model: Leverage Points for Deep Change & Multiple Streams Framework

 Agenda | March 6, 2025

(8 am – 10:30 am HT / 10 am – 12:30 pm PT / 11 am – 1:30 pm MT / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 1:00-3:30 pm ET)

Day 3 Learning Outcomes

After participating in Day 3, you will be able to:

  • Understand how systems and policies change, through the Problem Stream, the Politics Stream, the Policy Stream, policy windows, and policy entrepreneurs
  • Identify the dominant discourse and how to support the community’s preferred narrative
  • Apply the PHaRE Narrative Change Tool to your grantmaking

Agenda

I. Welcome and Review of Homework   

II. Phase 4 of the PHaRE Model: How Systems and Policies Change

III. Break

IV. Phase 3 of the PHaRE Model: Leverage Points for Deep Change 

V. Understanding Problems: The Community Lens vs. the Dominant Discourse

VI. Inside/Outside Strategies

VII. Example from the Field

VIII. Homework & Closing

Homework:  Narrative Change Tool

Day 4: Phase 5 of the PHaRE Model: Policy, Systems & Environment Output, and  Action Planning for Grantmakers 

Agenda | March 13, 2025

(7 am – 9:30 am HT / 10 am – 12:30 pm PT / 11 am – 1:30 pm MT / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 1:00-3:30 pm ET)

Day 4 Learning Outcomes

After participating in Day 4, you will be able to:

  • Learn how to help community members sustain systems and policy wins, and how to come back even stronger if they do not achieve the win they sought.
  • Identify customized actions your organization can take to increase your organization’s capacity to support health and racial equity with the PHaRE Action Plan Tool.
  • Walk away with your next action steps toward supporting systems and policy changes as a result of this training and a realistic understanding of where you need more support.

Agenda

I. Welcome & Discussion about Homework

II. Phase 5 of the PHaRE Model: Policy, Systems & Environment Output

III. Example from the Field

IV. Applying the PHaRE Model Considering What We Have Learned

V. Break

VI. PHaRE Action Planning Tool 

VII. Closing

Meet the Lead Trainers

Ginger Lee, DrPH

Ginger Lee, DrPH, is the founder of the Ginger Lee Global Health Consulting Group, which specializes in advancing domestic and international community-driven solutions. The Public Health and Racial Equity (PHaRE) Model for Systems change is based on her research of successful systems changes led by historically disinvested communities. Dr. Lee has a special interest in community power building and working together to change the social and commercial determinants of health. As such, Dr. Lee has been leading and studying place-based and place conscious initiatives for the past 30 years. She has been the CEO of two non-profit organizations, and has worked in academia, health care, and government. She is a member of the Board of Directors and the immediate past President of a foundation engaged in grantmaking in the Guatemalan Highlands. She can be reached at ginger@gingerleeglobal.com.

Sue Grinnell, MPH

Sue works every day to support collaboratives in approaching their work with innovative practices and data-driven research. Her decades of experience in public health have led her to a deep understanding of and work addressing issues such as chronic disease, access to prenatal care, and children’s health. Sue is a champion for multi-sector collaboratives and Accountable Communities of/for Health (ACH) sites. Sue was instrumental in forming the initial ACH model in Washington and has played a leading role in 19 other sites, including 10 ACH sites in Vermont and 9 in California. She served as the Special Assistant for Health Transformation and Innovation, Director of the Office of Healthy Communities, Director of Office of Community Wellness and Prevention as well as the state Chronic Disease Director and Maternal and Child Health Director. Prior to her role at WSDH, she served as Director for the Cowlitz County Health Department in Longview, Washington.

Christina Olson, MPH

Christina has over ten years of experience in research and practice across multiple health-focused disciplines. From 2016-2020, she worked on-the-ground in development of a multisector, population health-focused collaborative where she managed policy development, day-to-day operations, funding creation and distribution, stakeholder engagement, and trust building across various community sectors and with residents. Prior to 2016, Christina worked in multiple research labs as both an assistant and a co-principal investigator on her own federally funded research. She also spent a period working in federal-level, international public health policy with the Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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