Public Service

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) serves as the national health care advocacy organization for America’s medically underserved and uninsured and the community health centers that serve as their health care home.

With a powerful voice beyond his year, Royce Mann is using his voice and position to bring awareness to marginalized communities.

Bridging the gap between community, equality, and innovative next practices to change viewpoints.

In the days after Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic rainfall and flooding forever changed the landscape of Houston, TX, Angela Blanchard set up a shelter in the NRG Center to house 10,000 people. How long did she have to set it up? 24 hours.

We had an opportunity to catch up with Mark Brand, CEO of MB, Inc. and highly anticipated storyteller at BIF2018. Passionate and purposeful, Brand talks to us about the power of connectivity, combining purposeful networks, and some of the fascinating endeavors he's taken on. 

We need flexible, adaptable, and agile public services, truly designed to meet citizens where they are and when they need them — whether confronting homelessness or any other calamity, ideally well before a crisis takes hold in a way similar to how the affordable housing shortage has imperiled citizens nationwide.

Human-centered design, the core of BIF’s methodology, helps leaders shift how they understand a problem, see interconnections, and better frame wholistic solutions. That is one benefit to a Next Practice Lab: it can generate more holistic models that can be scaled by social impact bonds, getting more bang for the taxpayer buck. 

Saul Kaplan and Angela Blanchard talk about reinventing communities, starting with the people who live there – by listening to them, learning about their aspirations, and enabling them in the pursuit of their goals.