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Black Health Matters Initiative Wins Anthem Award
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By Angela Chambers
t is with great honor and distinction a community initiative that promotes that the Santa Cruz County Black equity through a network of community Health Matters Initiative accepts the trust, advocacy, and collaboration to silver award in the category of improve the quality of life for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Black residents in Santa Cruz Best Community Engagement County,” she says. for the first Anthem Awards “Dismantling systemic inaugural season! Join our team racism and the frameworks they at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28, for hold requires a multidimenthe live ceremony where we will sional approach through trust, be honored alongside so many partnership, transparency, and from around the country. equalizing all voices at the table Cat Willis The Anthem Awards was to develop new frameworks. launched in response to the prevalence Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters social good has taken within the national Initiative believes in the power of cultural conversation and cultural zeitgeist in place-making and the arts at the center to recent years. The inaugural competition achieve this.” received nearly 2,500 entries from 36 counShe adds, “Our work has only just tries worldwide. begun as we embark on year two of the “Black Health Matters Initiative was Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters born out of the response to the murder of Initiative through our Data Spotlight Mr. George Floyd and the Santa Cruz Black in partnership with United Way Santa community convening with one another to Cruz County, and our work with local take action,” founding director Cat Willis county and city government agencies, says. investors, and community organizations. “Through partnerships across the We believe that driving the investment in county with multigenerational and this work to take it to the next level is our multi-focused Black leadership, Santa next step. Cruz County Black Health Matters Ini“Anthem Award” page 8 tiative embarked upon and mobilized
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