Our 2024 Member Assembly was October 26th! Nearly 100 of our members and partners came together to explore healing justice, celebrate our victories, and build community. We’d like to thank our event sponsors for their generous support! Movement Sponsor Organizer Sponsors Ally Sponsors Supporting Sponsors Colorado Center on Law and PolicyColorado Children’s CampaignColorado Cross Disability […]
Grounding Research in Communities Most Impacted to Build Narrative Power
Building power requires more than organizing people and making campaign demands – it also involves shaping deeply-held values and beliefs in our society so that we can enact long-lasting change. In our one-on-one conversations with leaders, we often hear people share that the widespread ideas about our society – what organizers refer to as “dominant […]
Center for Health Progress supports immigrants, others in Fort Morgan
The Center for Health Progress office in Fort Morgan is led by Lead Community Organizer Perla Rodriguez and Community Organizer Andrea Escalera. The office represents Morgan County and works with local constituencies to better healthcare systems to be more equitable for immigrant families. According to Rodriguez, most of their statewide members are black and/or people […]
Medical Debt Affects Much of America, but Colorado Immigrants Are Hit Especially Hard
In February, Norma Brambila’s teenage daughter wrote her a letter she now carries in her purse. It is a drawing of a rose, and a note encouraging Brambila to “keep fighting” her sickness and reminding her she’d someday join her family in heaven.
Community With High Medical Debt Questions Its Hospitals’ Charity Spending
As 41% of American adults face medical debt, residents of this southern Colorado city contend their local nonprofit hospitals aren’t providing enough charity care to justify the millions in tax breaks they receive.
Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health
This five-part series, Reclaiming Control: The History and Future of Choice in Our Health, examines how healthcare in the US has been built on the principle of imposing control over body, mind, and expression. The Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade—which stripped millions of people with uteruses of bodily autonomy—is just the latest knot in a […]
