The Northwest Leadership Foundation develops leadership skills in overlooked individuals in Tacoma to create positive change. Carol Milgard Breast Center's mission is to provide sustainable breast health services to all women in the community. When community activists and health care professionals work together to address health care disparities, owning the problem jointly, great progress can be made.

2. Northwest Leadership Foundation develops a new generation
of leaders for lasting, positive change within the city of Tacoma. NLF
finds talented individuals in overlooked places with undeveloped
leadership potential.

3. Carol Milgard Breast Center’s mission is to
provide sustainable breast health services to all
women in our community.

5. “We want African Americans to take charge of their own health
and move the needle on the data we’ve seen.
One of the critical indicators for us is that community activists
are working directly with health care professionals, and they
both have ownership of addressing health care disparities.
When those two groups see themselves walking hand in hand
to address this issue, I think we will have achieved something
really great.”

9. In partnership with The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The Boeing
Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Seattle Foundation, and
National Conference on Citizenship

10. What do we mean by civic health?
A community’s capacity
to work together to
resolve
collective problems

11. Why is it important?
Strong civic health positively
affects
• Local GDP
• Economic resilience
• Upward income
mobility
• Public health
• Student achievement

12. How does greater Seattle rank?
Our region has
• Vibrant civic
institutions
• Active voters
• Innovative social
• entrepreneurs
• A strong culture of
volunteerism and
philanthropy

13. But…the “Seattle Freeze” is real

14. What can we do to improve
greater Seattle’s civic health?

16. Civic Knowledge
• Make education our most important civic health investment.
• Close the achievement gap.

18. “Civic engagement and volunteering is
the new hybrid health club
for the 21st century—
it's free to join and miraculously improves
both your health and the community's
through the work performed
and the social ties built.”
--Harvard Kennedy School, The Saguaro Seminar

19. • Leverage the power of networks and hubs to foster
connectivity.
Civic Connection

21. Civic Trust
• Bring residents and leaders together for productive dialogue
and decision making.

23. Civic Action
• As a health care professional, how can you include civic health as a metric in
your work?
• What support do you need?
• Who are your natural allies and potential partners?

24. And as a neighbor, how can you build our community’s
social capital and civic health?

25. • Improve civic health as a way to strengthen
economic, social, educational and public health
outcomes.
• Ensure that every resident has the opportunity to
contribute to and benefit from our civic health.

26. seattlecityclub.org
ddouglas@seattlecityclub.org

27. Snohomish County Health Leadership Coalition