Resource Library

Learn about the assessments, practices, and know-how that supported ARC’s beginning. These resources offer ARC 101 for communities or anchors that want to begin this work in their region.

• Where did we begin? - The Democracy Collaborative's ARC Assessment highlights areas of opportunity for ARC in the East Bay. For a link to the full report click here.
• Who is at our table? - ARC Steering Committee Roster 2023
• What is our theory of change? - ARC Logic Model illustrates what we do and how that gets us to our vision.  
• What we have achieved?
  • ARC Timeline highlights the history of ARC and key milestones in our first five years of work together.
  • Year in Review 2023 - Updates to our broader network about our work in 2023.

Explore ARC’s evaluation process, findings, and analysis, and access research from our partnering organizations. Learn the newest ideas on leveraging anchor institutions to build inclusive and sustainable local economies.

ARC Governance

Materials that cover how ARC governs itself. In the near term, we will be adding templates and guides for those interested in replicating ARC in their own community. 

• ARC Model - Key Components and Guiding Principles

Regional Food System

Materials and resources specific to our first ARC project--shifting to a regional, sustainable, and equitable food system. It includes realizing the elements core to our mission, frames we use for evaluation and assessment, and more.

USDA RFSP Resources:

• Public Learning Session #1 - Partnerships Across the Food Value Chain (Webinar)
• Public Learning Session #1 - Partnerships Across the Food Value Chain (Slide Deck) 
• Yolo Food Hub Summary
• ARC RFSP - Yolo Food Hub Opportunity
• ARC USDA RFSP - Supplier Convenings (Webinar)

Regional Food System Initiative:

• Regional Food System Strategies
  • Food Systems Strategy 2021
  • Value Chain Assessment
  • Workforce Assessment
• First Phase of the Regional Food System: 2017-2020
  • ARC Case Study from Healthcare Anchor Network (2020)
  • CA Governor's Office of Planning and Research - Case Study on ARC 
• Evaluation: List of indicators for measuring progress of FSP's Union City Culinary Center and impacts on the regional food system
• HCWH Healthy Food In Health Care
• HCWH Community Benefit Healthy Food Playbook

Anchor Community Collaboration 

• Anchor Community Engagement Workbook
• Community Resilience: A Community Engagement Primer for Health Professionals
• Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems
• Healthcare Anchor Network
• The Democracy Collaborative

What is ARC?