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Collaborative Initiatives

Healthy Business Coalition

Good health is good business for every business

Mission

The Healthy Business Coalition's mission was to build a community of cross-sector leaders to create communications and tools that drive interest and investment in health and wellbeing across value chains.

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Sustainability Insights

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Four Ways to Advance Mental Well-Being in the Workplace

What does an effective workforce mental health program look like? BSR’s Healthy Business Coalition, in partnership with One Mind at Work, identifies key aspects of such a program.

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A New Tool to Assess the Impact of Your Healthy Business Journey
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A Guide to Stakeholder Engagement for Healthier Communities
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Three Steps for Healthy Business Product and Program Design

Resources

We are sharing the following resources and tools that were produced by the Healthy Business Coalition. These tools were developed during the lifetime of the initiative and are no longer monitored or updated. BSR is therefore unable to provide support or any guidance in the use of these tools.

Business Actions for a Healthy Society Playbook

The Business Actions for a Healthy Society offers guidance for business on how to “move the needle” on community health in the U.S. and positively impact the social determinants of health, especially with respect to building back better after the pandemic. The Actions place particular emphasis on addressing the needs of groups that are suffering disproportionately due to the forces of systemic racism.

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Business Actions for a Healthy Society, Build Workforce Economic Security

Create good jobs—including offering paid leave, living wages, financial health, and benefits that meet the basic needs of direct and indirect workers and their families—that reduce poverty and build wealth. This resource contains a roadmap and scorecard.

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Business Actions for a Healthy Society, Promote Mental Well-Being and Resilience

Cultivate a work environment that supports and provides resources for positive mental health—psychological, emotional, and social—for all workers so that mental health achieves parity with physical health

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Healthy Business Coalition Toolkit

This five-part toolkit aims to help companies realize their full potential to strengthen community health, and each module takes users through a journey from initiation to evaluation of a healthy business initiative. Start by selecting the toolkit module that best aligns with the most relevant challenge your company is facing. Then advance to subsequent modules, as each module is designed to build on one another.

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