Community priorities.
Collective action.

People closest to the challenges help shape the path forward.

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Neighborhood Power Building · Ideas shaped by lived experience.
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Listen together

Start with residents’ knowledge, questions, and lived experience.

02

Build together

Connect community members, researchers, and public partners around shared priorities.

03

Act together

Turn those priorities into health outreach, data justice, and neighborhood action.

Change takes all of us.

Your experience, your ideas, your partnership. Let’s build what comes next.

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