About this service
This organization helps communities fight loneliness and build stronger connections between people. They offer workshops, planning help, and resources to community groups, nonprofits, and funders. Their services include the Socially Connected Communities Network with webinars and discussion groups, strategic planning meetings, custom workshops about social connection, and narrative training. They help organizations learn how to bring people together and create healthier communities where everyone feels connected and supported.
Details
Who can use this
Community organizations, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, and government agencies
Cost
Not specified - contact for pricing
How to reach them
Website
Houston, TX
Organization
Healthy Places by Design
Healthy Places by Design advances community-led action and proven, place-based strategies to ensure health and well-being for all. Launched in 2002 as Active Living by Design, our organization envisions a nation of healthy, equitable communities where everyone reaches their full potential.
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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke