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Since 2021, the City of New London, Connecticut, has partnered with FFI to shift from business-as-usual to a vision for transformative change. Watch this video from a 2024 event where FFI joined the New London community to reimagine the future of the city.

Use this resource to guide your understanding of how wellbeing design principles can be applied to procurement. This resource was developed with input from the Wellbeing Procurement Learning Group formed of professionals in procurement from across the country.

An interview with Twila Norris, a credible messenger who helped to implement our Wellbeing Insights, Assets & Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT). Resident leaders like Twila administered surveys and analyzed data to understand how the North Coast development project would impact the community's access to wellbeing.

Full Frame Initiative was joined by Angela Cochran, Ohio START Caseworker in Trumbull County, Ohio and Mike Kenney with the Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO), who shared about their two-and-a-half-year journey toward centering community and co-creating a framework that is led by those most impacted.

Learn how we partnered with the City of Cleveland to transform its approach to development projects by implementing our Wellbeing Insights, Assets & Tradeoffs Tool (WIATT) to prioritize wellbeing and equity.

In Cleveland, Ohio, our work with government officials and residents offers a model for putting wellbeing at the center of how we design our cities.

In early 2024, FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker was joined by Henry A.J. Ramos and Gladys Carrión, two leaders who are transforming both the narratives that shape perceptions of crime and the systemic responses. Tune into their conversation as they shift the narrative on youth justice to highlight solutions that center wellbeing.

Mayor Michael Passero writes about the impact of the city of New London's partnership with FFI. Together, we're shifting how leaders and residents see their roles in building a city where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing.

FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker contributes as co-author in a recent position paper from the Council for Juvenile Justice Administrators about how to apply to a wellbeing framework to juvenile justice.

Senchel Matthews, FFI's former associate director of built environment, writes about how the planning community can repair harms of the past to create a more just future in an article for Planning Magazine.

In an article for Medium, FFI Founder and CEO Katya Fels Smyth shares a new name for an enduring phenomenon: wellbeing stripping. Because it's not just financial assets that are often drained from communities that can least afford it, as part of major development or public good projects.

FFI Senior Fellow Phyllis Becker, and Henry A. J. Ramos of The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy explore how centering youth, families and communities creates more sustainable responses to crime.