Giving Compass' Take:

· Many of the most pressing global issues are connected at the source. Here, Health & Environmental Funders Network discusses the connections between health and environment solutions and explains how the Cancer Free Economy Network is using collaborative efforts to build an economy supporting the well being of all.

· How is collaboration effective? How is the health of the environment related to the health of people?

· Read more about health and environmental issues and find out how you can successfully advocate


We can do this! Within the philanthropy sector, there are so many solutions emerging around the world from people coming together to tackle the social, economic and environmental problems challenging humanity right now. We are in a time when connecting solutions together to align and reinforce each others’ progress is the most critical strategy across issue silos.

The Cancer Free Economy Network (CFEN) is one such example, where people with solutions -- good ideas, strategies, initiatives, expertise, models, products and passion -- are collaborating to build an economy that supports health and well being for all. These types of social change networks are held together with universal core values. In CFEN, the values are framed as simply as:

The water we drink, the air we breathe, and the products we use every day shouldn’t make us sick, cause cancer or any other disease.

The network is an open and flexible way to connect to an extended community of people who are building power together to phase out all toxic chemicals manufactured and put into industrial and consumer products that are making us sick and damaging our environment. Collectively, we know of many solutions that are readily available for moving the economy in that direction.

Read the full article about connecting health and environment solutions by Fred Brown, Debra Erenberg, and Ruth Rominger at Health & Environmental Funders Network.