Our Healthy City program uses cutting-edge GIS mapping software and the region's most comprehensive database of public and nonprofit resources (schools, parks, community centers, health clinics) to map and analyzing the geographic dynamics of problems like school overcrowding, neighborhood violence, homelessness, or the allocation of public and private philanthropic funds.

Through the HealthyCity.org site or tailored technical assistance, we enable community residents, nonprofit organizations, advocates, public officials and civic leaders to see and analyze the distribution of critical community assets in relation to essential demographic information, electoral and school district boundaries and the like. Perhaps most important, our Healthy City program helps diverse and often conflicted groups of stakeholders arrive at a common understanding of a problem, which is an indispensable first step to developing shared solutions.

HealthyCity.org is widely used by: community mobilizing and advocacy organizations, such as the Community Coalition Against Substance Abuse; local government agencies, such as the County's Department of Children and Family Services, the Los Angeles Police Department and the City of Los Angeles Commission on Children, Youth and Families; local philanthropic organizations, including The California Endowment, California Community Foundation and the P-3 Public Private Partnership for Early Childhood, a consortium of 23 public agencies and private foundations.

HealthyCity.org developed, in large part, out of the Advancement Project's powerful use of maps in the state school construction funding work. Healthy City is governed by an independent partnership that includes Children's Hospital, 211 Los Angeles, United Way, USC School of Social Work and The Advancement Project.