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The City of Green Bay has been chosen as a finalist community for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize following its joint application with Wello. Green Bay is one of nine finalists across the country moving one step closer to the national prize which honors communities working at the forefront of…

The first task I had as a new intern with Wello was to sort through the responses from the three open-ended questions that were part of their Well-Being Survey. One question they asked was “what one thing would improve well-being in your community?” There were obvious answers like new restaurant chains and better weather, but…

For 15 years, the International Food Information Council’s Food and Health Survey has polled U.S. consumers with the goal of surfacing their perceptions, beliefs, and practices around food and food purchasing decisions.  It’s a good read in any year, but this year the survey took place against the backdrop of a global pandemic and included…

No, that’s not a new fad diet.  When we talk about “curb cuts,” we’re talking about a concept from the science of community well-being first outlined by Angela Glover Blackwell in her article “The Curb Cut Effect,”  published  in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) in Winter 2017.  In the piece, Glover challenges the widely…

A key area of well-being is our physical health and under that falls diet. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables plays a major role in a healthy diet, but access to that fresh produce is just as important, especially for those disproportionately affected in our community by  income or transportation barriers. It takes the community coming…

The City of Green Bay has earned a Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists!  This was announced on Wednesday, June 10th during a virtual press conference by Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, Wello Executive Director  Natalie Bomstad, and Wisconsin Bike Fed Northeast Director Michelle Bachaus. You can watch the live…

Affordable, stable housing is essential to equitable health and well-being. Now, more than ever, this is at stake for many in our community. Check out this discussion on current housing insecurities our neighbors are experiencing in Brown County and how you can help. House of Hope, Golden House, Freedom House Ministries, Newcap and Brown County…

“Programming from a YMCA standpoint is suppose to, when it’s being done right, reflect the needs of the community,” said Sean Elliott, CEO of the Greater Green Bay YMCA. He joins Wello for our latest installment of our Connecting for Well-Being series. Sean discusses the new safety measures in place to open up several of…

“I’m fond of saying that you can do anything with friends and during this time away from a lot of my connections, I recognize how much I have gleaned from those relationships. I recognized that I have been given queues in relationships on how to do better by myself,” said Renita Robinson, CEO of YWCA…

What is social capital?  Well, it’s the topic of this whole thread so I should probably explain a little more! Google tells us that social capital is “the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively” but it can come in many forms as…