A 2019 awarded grant under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses program, managed by AcademyHealth.
This project is funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses to Build a Culture of Health” program, which seeks to understand the ways that for-profit anchors advance health and well-being in the communities where they are located. The goal of this project is to research the impacts, strategies, and motivations of for-profit anchor institutions in engaging with low-income communities in small and midsized cities (those with populations under 500,000) as it relates to gentrification and economic development. The research will be useful to foundations, local public officials, economic developers, and other local stakeholders who are interested in developing strategies to encourage for-profit companies to engage with local low-income communities. Research methods will include both quantitative regression analysis and qualitative interviews. In disseminating the research findings, deliverables will include a public report accessible to a general audience and posted on Initiative for a Competitive Inner City's website, an internal report for RWJF, multiple blog posts on Initiative for a Competitive Inner City's blog and social media platforms.
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Grant Institution: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Grant Number: 76911
Grant Budget: $229,836
Grant Period: 10/01/2019-9/30/2021
How For-Profit Companies Can Act as Anchor Institutions
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City | October 2021
The New Anchors: Corporate Engagement with Lower-Income Communities in Smaller Cities
SSRN | September 2021