Motivations of potential anchor businesses to support community development and community health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Some for-profit businesses act like non-profit anchor institutions in contributing to community development, particularly health-related initiatives. Their motives are not well understood. We aimed to 1) identify and describe potential anchor businesses, 2) determine their motivations to contribute to community development, and 3) highlight motivations behind health-related initiatives.

Materials and methods

We identified a national sample of potential anchor businesses, grouped by those that contributed to 1) both health-related and non-health initiatives, 2) non-health initiatives only, and 3) those without substantial contributions. We conducted an environmental scan, semi-structured qualitative interviews and directed content analysis through rapid review me

SUBMITTER: Cohen CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328504 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature