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Congratulations to our communications partner Angie Winschel! 🎉

What does it take for women to work well? It's the question that led Dr. Desiree Coleman-Fry (She/Her) to create Women Work Well—and one we're excited to help her explore as the organization's fiscal sponsor. Women Work Well focuses on helping women earn more and advance further while also addressing the workplace and community systems that shape their opportunities to do so. We're excited to welcome Desiree and Women Work Well to the Build Missouri Health community and to support this work as it grows across Missouri. Read more about Desiree's vision and our new partnership: https://lnkd.in/dDWeniMN #EconomicMobility #FiscalSponsorship #HealthEquity #Missouri

What shapes health? At Build Missouri Health, we've been thinking a lot about that question lately. It's easy to think about health equity in terms of hospitals, clinics, and medical care. But the more we learn alongside our partners and communities, the more we see how factors like housing, workforce development, and even extreme heat shape opportunities for people to live healthy lives. In this month's newsletter, Executive Director Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff reflects on two graduate research projects that challenged us to think more broadly about the conditions that influence health across Missouri. It's a reminder that some of the most important health solutions begin in places we might least expect. We hope you'll take a few minutes to read this month's newsletter and follow along as we share more from this research in the weeks ahead. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gKzKw_F3 Nathan James, MBA-HCA, MPH, Elisabeth Doty Missouri Coalition for the Environment At Still University University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy #HealthEquity #CommunityHealth #Missouri #CommunityLedInnovation

As Build Missouri Health continues to grow our work across Missouri, we're excited to welcome leaders who bring deep connections to communities throughout our state. Please join us in welcoming Teletia Atkins to our Board of Directors. Her experience building partnerships, supporting community-led initiatives, and advancing health equity in Southeast Missouri will strengthen our Board and help guide our work in the years ahead. Learn more about Teletia and her background: https://lnkd.in/gR4wF3YH

We're celebrating alongside our partners at Upward Momentum today! It was an honor for Build Missouri Health to serve as intermediary for this year's Bridging Divides initiative and to witness the creativity, commitment, and community leadership represented by organizations from across Missouri. Congratulations to this year's recipients. Thank you, Upward Momentum, for your partnership and for investing in organizations that are creating new pathways to economic opportunity throughout our state.

🎉 We just earned our Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid! Keep up with our accomplishments on our profile https://lnkd.in/ghwWnDZK

Much of Build Missouri Health's work happens before the results are visible. It's the work of building partnerships, strengthening infrastructure, and creating the conditions that allow community-led ideas to grow. In this month's newsletter, Executive Director Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff reflects on that work and on how Build Missouri Health is evolving to better support the organizations and leaders driving change across Missouri. Read the latest: https://lnkd.in/gBxyYkUt

One of the things we appreciate most about fiscal sponsorship is its flexibility. While it's often associated with helping new ideas get off the ground, it can also provide valuable infrastructure and support for organizations navigating funding challenges, capacity constraints, or organizational change. Thank you to Philanthropy Missouri for inviting our Executive Director, Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff, to join this important conversation about the future of Missouri's nonprofit sector—and the many ways partnerships can help organizations continue their work in communities across our state. #fiscalsponsorship #Missouri #NonprofitLeadership #HealthEquity

This partnership has been and will continue to be important to our work towards achieving health equity across Missouri. Congratulations to the selected organizations!