A few months ago, not long after I announced that 2017 would be the year I would step down as president and CEO of this remarkable organization, I experienced a deeply moving and defining moment.
It happened during our annual Culture of Health Prize celebration, when the Foundation honors the men and women of communities across the nation who are working to make their towns, their tribes, their cities, and their neighborhoods as healthy as they can be. These are people who are passionate about making a difference. They are mayors, teachers, bankers, architects, and religious leaders. They are mothers, fathers, and irrepressible teens. They work in housing, transportation, education, private industry, community development, criminal justice, and yes, health care. And every one of them knows that meaningful change—the kind that morphs hope into possibility—doesn’t come from the top down. It is built from the ground up by the very people who crave it.
[For more of this story, written by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, go to http://www.rwjf.org/en/library...-annual-message.html]
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