Network Learning: 2025
2025 ushers in a new set of learning opportunities! These bi-monthly presentations and panels explore topics grounded in equity and the vital conditions shaping...
Belonging and Civic Muscle
2023 Advocacy & Learning Series
Featured Collections
August 2023 Partner Convening: Building Bridges For Collective Action
This collection features recordings, presentation slides and resources that were shared at the 2023 August partner convening.
Reunión de socios de agosto de 2023: Tender puentes para la acción colectiva
Esta colección contiene grabaciones, diapositivas y recursos compartidos en la reunión de socios de 2023 celebrada en agosto.
Tribal Wellness Series
North Sound ACH is proud to be in partnership with Children of the Setting Sun Productions for the 2022 film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. We share com...
Network Learning: 2022
The North Sound Collaborative Action Network presents a learning and advocacy interactive webinar series for 2022, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture. Each ...
Avanzar en una cultura justa e inclusiva: serie de aprendizaje y promoción
La Red de Acción Colaborativa de North Sound presenta una serie de seminarios web interactivos de aprendizaje y defensa para 2022, Promover una cultura justa e...
Putting Belonging and Civic Muscle Into Practice
How is our region fostering belonging and civic muscle? What contributes to Belonging & Civic Muscle? What stands in the way?
Poner en práctica la pertenencia y el músculo cívico
¿Cómo fomenta nuestra región la pertenencia y el músculo cívico? ¿Qué contribuye a la pertenencia y al músculo cívico? ¿Qué se interpone en el camino...
Introduction to Belonging & Civic Muscle
What is belonging & civic muscle and why is it the central vital condition for well-being?
Introducción a la pertenencia y al músculo cívico
¿Qué es la pertenencia y el músculo cívico y por qué es la condición vital central para el bienestar?
Featured Resources
Transgender, Nonbinary, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming Health and Well-Being | 2025 Learning Session | [Recording]
A recording of our live webinar on July 16, 2025, on advocacy and support for transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender nonconforming health and well-being, ...
Transgender, Nonbinary, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming Health and Well-Being | 2025 Network Learning Session | [Slides]
These slides accompanied the July 16, 2025, Learning Session on Transgender, Nonbinary, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming Health and Well-being
Power of Words Handbook: A Guide to Language about Japanese Americans in World War II
“Language is the archive of history” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. This resource, prepared by the National JACL Power of Words II Committee, explains...
Loma Linda University Health: Community Health Needs Assessment 2025
This resource outlines the health status, social conditions, and priorities of the region through data, community input, and strategic goals to guide health equ...
A Black Gaze
In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and...
Setting Sun Institute: Digital Heritage Library [Recording]
In this session, we heard from Setting Sun Institute about their multi-faceted work to foster an Indigenous-led think tank with four interwoven branches: educat...
NAACP launches climate storytelling initiative to highlight communities of color
This article, from Spectrum News 1, discusses how to redefine climate advocacy through the lens of communities of color.
Why knowing your neighbors can be an important climate solution
This article, from NPR, focuses on a community in North Carolina that centers collaboration and community solutions to respond to climate-driven changes in thei...
How Miss Navi Ho uses the power of drag to educate about Two Spirit identity
This article, from The Advocate (June 2, 2025), discusses Nádleehi (Two Spirit) identity within the Navajo, or Diné, community. Historically, Two Spirit peopl...
Attacks on Gender-Affirming and Transgender Health Care
This article, from the American College of Physicians, addresses the impact of bans on gender-affirming care for the transgender community.
Japanese American Who Fought for Prison Camp Survivors Now Fighting for Reparations for Black Community
This article discusses the impact of the Civil Rights Movement for the Japanese-American community and the connections between the redress movement for Japanese...
Densho [Website]
Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these...
Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest | RISNW [Website]
This is the website for Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest (RISNW). For more than 40 years, Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest has been helping ...
Turning Towards Each Other – Becky Payne
As Rippel’s President and CEO, Becky Payne leads the foundation’s efforts to shape a future in which all people and communities can thrive—no exceptions. ...
House of Wisdom
We heard from many of our partners about their work, at the January 2025 Partner Convening, and its only a small percentage of the amazing work being done in ou...
Targeted Universalism Explained
In this explainer video featuring Ashlin Malouf-Gashaw, you’ll learn about the T.U. framework, its strengths and benefits, its five stages, and how can stren...
Paths to Understanding
We heard from many of our partners about their work, at the January 2025 Partner Convening, and its only a small percentage of the amazing work being done in ou...
How the Arts Prepare Communities For the Future – Michael Greer
Michael Greer is the President & CEO of ArtsFund. His leadership experience spans both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including executive and managem...
Bridging to Belonging – john a. powell
john a. powell (who spells his name in lowercase in the belief that we should be “part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify”) is an internation...
Becky Payne ‘Turning Towards Each Other’ slide deck
Review the slide deck from Becky Payne’s presentation, Turning Towards Each Other, at the January 2025 Partner Convening.
Partner Spotlights – Slides
Review all the slides from the partner and ACH spotlights, shared at the January 2025 Partner Convening, including: Targeted Universalism community of practice,...
Micheal Greer ‘How the Arts Prepare Communities for the Future’ slide deck
Review the slides from Michael Greer’s presentation, How the Arts Prepare Communities for the Future, at the Janaury 2025 Convening.
john a. powell ‘Bridging to Belonging’ slide deck
Review the slides that john used during his Bridging to Belonging presentation at the January 2025 Partner Convening.
Setting Sun Institute Digital Heritage Library
This resource preserves and shares Indigenous media to inspire cultural understanding and drive meaningful action.
North Sound Well-Being Survey Launch
This resource aims to gather diverse community perspectives to shape the future of regional well-being, encouraging participation to ensure inclusive representa...
North Sound Oral Health: Local Impact Newsletter October 2023 – Issue 5
This resource highlights ongoing efforts to improve oral health equity in the North Sound region, focusing on community water fluoridation in Lynden and its pot...
Closing and Reflections
North Sound ACH CEO Liz Baxter leads convening participants in a reflection of the day.
Building a Thriving Region Together
We asked participants to imagine creating a new community campus, as an exercise in collaboration.
Movement Break
A shared movement break to nourish our bodies.
Keynote Milenko Matanovic
Milenko Matanovic has become an internationally recognized leader in collaboration. He is an artist and community builder focusing on turning people’s differe...
Connect and Collaborate
Giving the folks a chance to introduce themselves to each other and then start the day with a fun activity that gets folks in the mindset of collaboration.
Welcoming – From Partnership to Collaboration
Welcoming our attendees to the August 2024 Partner Convening, with North Sound ACH CEO Liz Baxter, Tribal and Community Liaison Michaela Vendiola, and a film by...
Arts Projects in the Network | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening
Liz Baxter shares about an upcoming partner project, youth filmmakers and the importance of diversity in front of and behind the camera with Remy Styrkowicz, as...
Celebrating Artists | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening
Our theme for the January 2024 Convening was the HeART of Transformation – bringing forth the importance of art in our life, and its often overlooked conn...
Language Access Workforce | Recording | January 2024 Partner Convening
The recording of our partner presentation about a Network project, Skagit Valley College: Language Access Workforce, with Brittney Maruska, Director of Business...
Potluck for Democracy
Potluck for Democracy is a toolkit that helps neighbors from different backgrounds come together across differences to recognize each other’s humanity and...
Embracing an Ecosystem of Complexity
North Sound ACH staff created this poster for the Othering & Belonging Conference, held in Oakland, CA from April 11-13, 2024. The poster visualizes a commu...
Distressed Communities Index
The Distressed Communities Index (DCI) brings attention to the deep disparities in economic well-being that separate U.S. communities. Using the latest Census d...
They Asked for PPE and Got Body Bags Instead
A Vogue magazine article from 2021 about Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) and her colleagues at the Seattle Indian Health Board receiving body bags instead of PPE, an...
Triumph Fashion Show
Video from the Fashion Show fundraiser, for the Triumph Teen Life Center in Mount Vernon, WA.
Artistic Dialogues: Healing Communities, Inspiring Activism [recording]
This session, from July 17, 2024, features panelists and group discussion on art as healing and as activism – recognizing art as a tool for self-care and ...
Video: Mount Vernon school district sees Mariachi music investment pay off
This is a video of a King 5 Seattle news article highlighting the investments of Skagit County in their high school music programs, showcasing MV Mariachi and i...
Triumph Teen Life Center
This center provides a range of services aimed at empowering teens and fostering community well-being through various supportive programs.
The Belonging Barometer: The State Of Belonging In America
“Belonging is a fundamental human need, and one that is linked to many of the most complex challenges of our time. The Center for Inclusion and Belonging ...
Podcast | Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing
“For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who ...
Voter Participation Is a Path to Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Promote a Healthy, Inclusive Democracy
This journal article discusses how public health agencies can use their resources and relationships to foster communities in which voting is accessible, easily ...
Why and How Should Public Health Promote Voting?
This article discusses why public health has a responsibility to promote civic and voter participation in order to advance health equity.
Slide Deck: Poetry – A Tool for Healing and Liberation | January 2024 Partner Convening
Slides from the session: Poetry – A Tool for Healing and Liberation | January 2024 Partner Convening
Our Community, Our Story: Community Health Workers Making an Impact Across Virginia
This video captures Community Health Workers (CHWs) for a Healthy VA’s impact in Norfolk/Portsmouth, Richmond/Petersburg, Danville/Pittsylvania, and Mount...
THE CASE FOR EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY | Excerpts | Milenko Matanovič
Here you will find principles developed by Milenko Matanovič for any community to utilize to promote “Everyday Democracy”.
September Network Learning Session (Slides): Incarcerated and Justice Involved Equitable Solutions
Slides – Network Learning Session – Incarcerated and Justice Involved Equitable Solutions
Grace Program – Whatcom County
“The Whatcom Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program is a community-based effort to find solutions for individuals who are high u...
LEAD Program Evaluation: Recidivism Report
“This report describes findings from a quantitative analysis comparing outcomes for LEAD participants versus “system-as-usual” control participants on...
Guidelines for Successful Transition of People with Mental or Substance Use Disorders from Jail and Prison: Implementation Guide
The purpose of Guidelines for Successful Transition of People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders from Jail and Prison: Implementation Guide is to provide b...
Coast Salish Youth Coalition – Lopez Island Family Resource Center – Partner Presentation Slides
Lopez Island Family Resource Center’s Coast Salish Youth Coalition project, partner presentation slides. Sam Barr, Madrona Institute | Coast Salish Yout...
MDPI: Promotoras de Salud in a Father-Focused Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Border Communities: Approaches and Lessons Learned from Collaboration
This manuscript’s purpose is to describe how to engage and collaborate with promotoras in a father-focused, family-centered program for Latino families living...
CDC: CHW State Law Fact Sheet
A Summary of State Community Health Worker Laws
CDC: Policy Evidence Assessment Report
The Policy Evidence Assessment Reports summarize the evidence bases for components of chronic disease policy. In these reports 14 CHW policy components to ass...
CHW Networks in the North Sound Region
Whatcom Community Health Worker’s Network page, with resources on meetings and opportunities to connect with fellow CHWs.
Recording: Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities
This is a recording of the July 2023 Network Learning Session entitled “Community Health Workers – Promoting Health and Strengthening Communities”
Sample 501(C)(3) Organizational Policy for Election Season
The article provides a sample policy for 501(c)(3) organizations to comply with IRS rules on political campaign intervention. It covers prohibited activities an...
Nonprofit VOTE
This webpage provides nonprofits with nonpartisan tools and resources to help the communities they serve participate in voting and democracy.
Coalition Checklist
This resource is designed to guide organizations through the process of forming and working in coalition. It includes information about common forms of coalitio...
Washington Voter Registration
This guide outlines Washington state voter registration law, including deadlines, photo ID requirements, and voter registration drives.
How do we live together when we profoundly disagree? A conversation with john powell
For john, the most important of those things is bridging, connecting with other people in a way that helps them feel like they belong and helps you feel like yo...
Organizing Around Vital Conditions Moves The Social Determinants Agenda Into Wider Action
Dozens of federal departments, agencies, and institutes published a whole-of-government plan to enhance well-being and justice across the United States – The ...
Inclusive Language Guide
Our language must continually evolve with our understanding and acceptance of diverse groups of people. This booklet aims to guide us… in the quest to com...
The Science of Silence: Intentional Silence as a Moderation Technique
Keeping quiet is a powerful moderation technique for user interviews, usability testing, and workshop facilitation. Well-timed, deliberate periods of silence el...
Cancel Culture Is Real, But adrienne maree brown Says We Should Be Careful About Throwing People Away
adrienne maree brown talks to Shondaland about her book, “We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice.”
Advancing Holistic Well-Being Measures
NLC and Oxford embarked on a dual effort aimed at a pilot in metropolitan Atlanta, while also considering a broader set of emerging models spurred by cities and...
BIPOC Provider Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) health practitioner perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica ...
BIPOC Patient Perspectives
This video collection of stories shares Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOD) patient perspectives. This collection was created by Mónica Koller, MS O...
The Purple Stethoscope
The Purple Stethoscope podcast is hosted by Devyn Nixon, ARNP. The purpose of the podcast is to promote health literacy and healthcare for the culture.
What’s Different When the Community Collects the Data?
This story discusses nine Massachusetts communities where residents were recruited to conduct an annual study that examines community change and health and how ...
The Endangered Languages Project
Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost....
Who Belongs? EP 36 – Developing a Shared Vocabulary: Introduction to Othering, Bridging, and Belonging
This episode of the podcast series, Who Belongs? interviews UC Berkeley Professor and OBI Director John A. Powell. In this interview, Professor Powell...
Northwest tribes’ legacy, and power, of telling a good story
News article by KUOW in Seattle about Lummi Nation and Children of the Setting Sun Productions.
Bolder Advocacy
Resources and expertise to help nonprofits engage in advocacy work. Bolder Advocacy promotes active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by givin...
Tribal Approaches to Wellness film series
Watch the full livestream of the premiere of Children of the Setting Sun Productions’ documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness, featuring th...
Marilyn Scott: Portrait of Leadership – Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Holistic Health & Recovery – Tulalip Tribes
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Transport for the People – Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Salmon and Our Health – Stillaguamish Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
The Big Walk – Sauk-Suiattle Indian Nation
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Waking the Canoes – Samish Indian Nation
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
Rikkole Cree Canoe Club – Nooksack Tribe
In 2022, Children of the Setting Sun Productions showcased a new documentary film series, Tribal Approaches to Wellness. Each of the eight Tribes in the North S...
North Sound Cohort Glossary
Glossary of terms helpful for the Collaborative Action Network learning journey, by North Sound ACH.
What is Health Equity
While the term health equity is used widely, a common understanding of what it means is lacking. What is health equity? By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Equity Manifesto
The Equity Manifesto by Policy Link. Includes definition and explanation of equity as seen by Policy Link and partners.
Racial Equity Map Glossary
Glossary by the Racial Equity Learning & Action Community.
Creating the Future
Creating the Future is a collection of people around the world, supporting each other in a 10 year experiment in systems change, to determine how much more huma...
Tentative Ruling Stops LA County’s Most Ambitious Justice Reform Measure
This article explores how a Los Angeles Superior Court judge published a ruling that will stop the voter-approved Measure J from taking effect. Measure J was in...
George Floyd’s Death is One Of Many Reasons Activists Are Pushing For a “People’s Budget” in LA
This article describes efforts to creating a “People’s Budget” in Los Angeles following the killing of George Floyd. It explores the effects o...
Land Back: April session – Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture series
Recording of the Land Back learning session on April 20, 2022 hosted by North Sound ACH. This sessions is the first in the 2022 Advancing a Just and Inclusive C...
Volver a la tierra: Sesión de abril – Serie “Avanzar en una cultura justa e inclusiva
Grabación de la sesión de aprendizaje de Land Back del 20 de abril de 2022 organizada por North Sound ACH
Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
Slide deck for April learning session, Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation
Land Back: diapositivas de la presentación
Diapositivas de la sesión de aprendizaje de abril, La tierra vuelve: más allá del reconocimiento de la tierra hacia la administración, la descolonización y...
The Pandemic May Leave Communities of Color Undercounted in the Census — And Cost Them Billions
This article explores how the pandemic may leave communities of color vastly undercounted in the census, costing them billions in public funds.
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