Community organizing is an understudied
public health approach for reducing
ethnic and racial health disparities1,2 that is
designed to empower low-income communities
of color to promote community health
by improving local policies and environments.3
However, minimal literature exists to
guide health professionals and their community
partners in conducting effective,
community organizing–based health promotion
in communities of color. We address
this literature gap by presenting a 3-lens
prescription for framing and evaluating culturally
responsive, community organizing–
based health promotion derived from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s
(RWJF) Communities Creating Healthy
Environments (CCHE) initiative, the first
national program to apply community organizing
to address the population-level
determinants of childhood obesity in communities
of color