About Us

Mission 

Community-Minded Enterprises encourages and demonstrates long-term community well being by offering skills, strategies and services through which communities achieve and sustain greater resiliency. We are committed to advancing a universal model for successful, sustainable communities.

By community we mean combinations of people, nature, and culture in a place – urban or rural – of a size which allows people to be involved with each other in personal and meaningful ways. With increased connection between people and their ecosystems, local communities over time become more self-sufficient, resilient and self-sustaining.

A sustainable community provides for its members adequate and affordable shelter and healthcare; easily accessible and healthy food sources; a living wage and grassroots economic development; child care support and education available for all ages; community media; efforts to ensure a clean environment and alternative energy. It appreciates diverse cultures and demographics, and uses differences to foster creative solutions to our common problems. A sustainable community would be able to support itself during economic, health and environmental crises.

History and Accomplishments

Since 1997, Community-Minded Enterprises, formerly known as the Health Improvement Partnership, has partnered with more than 800 organizations on projects addressing child care resources, youth empowerment, healthcare access and preventive care, disability and social equity issues, workforce development, environmental sustainability, and community and economic development.

Some of our accomplishments include:

• Helping 14,000 families find child care through the Child Care Initiative. 
• Providing more than 50,000 uninsured people, through the Health For All project, with direct help in accessing healthcare.
• Helping more than 125,000 uninsured children become insured. 
• Guiding more than 700 Social Security disability beneficiaries with understanding the impact of earned income on their benefits. 
• Developing Integrated Access, a social services network program that links social service providers into a central, core partnership, providing a single point of access for multiple client services.
• Developing an exchange program between students from Ecuador and Spokane, and coordinating eleven youth organizations in Partners for Empowered Youth.  These projects launched youth leadership training and programs in community sustainability. 
• Securing more than $23 million in outside funds for the Spokane region.

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Community-Minded Enterprises' Board of Directors

We promote:

• Collaboration and solutions at the community level.
• Healthy water, air, soil, energy and food.
• Everyone's access to healthcare.
• Resources to support families and children.
• Opportunities for youth, persons with disabilities, and the disenfranchised.
• Strengthening local economies.