Regional Convergences

The Convergence Partnership is committed to promoting and leveraging work across multiple fields and sectors to advance knowledge, resource-sharing, and policy and environmental change that will help build a national movement towards healthy people in healthy places (HPHP). On the regional level of convergence–in metropolitan areas, counties, states and in some cases, across multiple states–funders are working with practitioners, advocates, and communities to develop and implement policy and environmental change strategies that create healthy neighborhoods.

The Convergence Partnership aims to increase and strengthen multi-field, place-based efforts, specifically focused on environmental and policy change. This is achieved by supporting the creation of regional convergences that improve healthy eating and active living in various communities.

Key activities include:

• Supporting connections to build knowledge and capacity, including the facilitation of relationships between the national partnership and regional convergence efforts.
• Providing technical guidance, resources, and mentoring to regional conveners and program directors as they build capacity and infrastructure.
• Providing communication strategies that help regions build the case for convergence, to recruit funders, practitioners, community residents, advocates, and others working in areas of concern.
• Identifying, connecting, and building momentum for policy change efforts at the regional, state, and national levels.
• Identifying and establishing measures of success to track progress. 
• Conducting regional and national convenings of regional funders and partners.

Current regional convergence partnerships include:

California Convergence

LiveWell Colorado

Florida Convergence

Shaping Kentucky's Future

Maine Convergence

Massachusetts Convergence

Missouri Convergence

NH HEAL Campaign

Northwest Convergence