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103 Nat'l Civic Rev. 3 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/natmnr103 and id is 1 raw text is: Note from the Editor This year, we are celebrating the twenty-five-year anniversary of the US Healthy Communities movement with two special Na- tional Civic Review issues about its past, present, and future. We were lucky enough to recruit as guest editor one of the pioneer- ing leaders of the movement, Tyler Norris. Tyler, who currently serves as vice president, Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Per- manente, was director of the National Civic League's Healthy Communities program during the early 1990s. Later he would become, among other things, president and CEO of Community Initiatives Inc., a founding co-chair of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's National Leadership Alliance, a founding director of the Convergence Partnership, and a founder of the group Advancing the Movement. He is also a founding board chairman of the Institute for People, Place and Possibility, which developed the Web-based common good utility, Community Com- mons (see Chris Fulcher's article in this issue). NCL is partner- ing with Community Commons (www.communitycommons.org) to broaden the audience for these special issues of NCR through social and Web-based media. Tyler's encyclopedic knowledge of the movement and vast net- work of leaders in the field are responsible for bringing in such a broad array of leading voices, so many that we needed two very full issues of the review to publish the wealth of edito- rial riches he unearthed. The first special issue (Volume 102, Number 4) focused on the history of the movement and spot- lighted the diverse, cross-sector set of partnerships and orga- nizations that has emerged over the years. This issue features a number of local case studies and explores a broad range of issues, from obesity, to walkable communities, to the need for inclusion and greater health equity. We wanted to do these special issues of the National Civic Re- view to mark the quarter century of the movement in the United States, to cast light on the results of this work across the nation, to pass along some of the lessons we've learned, and to consider what the unfinished agenda will be in the next twenty-five years, Tyler explained in a recent interview. Also, we wanted to look at A Publication of the National Civic League how Healthy Communities has become almost a part of the DNA of the way multisector partnerships work to implement their vi- sions, solve problems and improve their community quality of life. These special issues will focus on the need for innovation and inclusion, said Tyler. One of the ways we're going to get more fresh thinking is by bringing fresh voices to the table and really challenge ourselves to think differently, not just go to meetings and say, Well, the community ought to do this, but how do we bring these ideas back to our organizations, our companies, our places of worship. We're going to need to innovate, include, and model it ourselves, in other words, be the change. Over the past twenty-five years, Tyler has been involved in one way or another in hundreds of community-based initiatives and visioning processes. When you bring together people from all walks of life and all perspectives, you can generate great con- versations about what health is, where health comes from not just the role that health care plays, but what are the determi- nants of health in a way that allows everyone to contribute, he said. Then there is the question of what creates community and what is your role in community? The idea of a healthy com- munity moves the conversation from 'me' to 'we.' If I'm in the corporate sector, or I'm in the nonprofit sector or the health sec- tor, I know I need transportation, I need the equity perspective, I need folks who are working in early childhood development and those who are working on aging. I can't solve those problems my- self. It takes the whole community. It draws us into an area of 'we' of an inclusion of really solving issues more broadly that we can't do by ourselves. We would like to thank Kaiser Permanente for its support in de- veloping and publishing these special issues of the National Civic Review, and also the dozens of authors who contributed their in- sights, stories, and analyses. Michael McGrath Editor © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) National Civic Review * DOI: 10.1002/ncr.21163 * Spring 2014 3

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