About Us

Our environments determine our health.

The Convergence Partnership was founded on the belief that health and place are inextricably linked. People are healthy when the places where they live support good health. Without a healthy environment, people are more likely to suffer from obesity or many other chronic diseases plaguing the United States: diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. To prevent disease we must create healthier neighborhoods that support healthy choices. It requires change in both the food environment—how food is grown, processed, distributed, and sold—and the physical environment—how neighborhoods are built to the transportation systems that serve them.

The Convergence Partnership, formed in 2006, is a collaborative of funders whose goal of policy and environmental change will help reinvent communities of healthy people living in healthy places. Achieving this vision requires the broad expertise and influence of funders, advocates, and practitioners working across multiple fields to change these environments. Through its outreach, investments, and activities, the Partnership aims to strengthen and accelerate multi-field, equity-focused efforts among practitioners, policymakers, funders, and advocates to create environments that support healthy eating and active living.