Missoula Invest Health Initiatives

Current Initiatives

Missoula Invest Health is honored to be a recipient of a portion of a Reinvestment Funds Collaborative Grants Award. The partnerships formed through this initiative and opportunities are valuable investments into our community. Our local teams will focus on new learning and collaboration opportunities in partnership with other communities focused on issues including aligning justice and equity and operationalizing health equity policies. These learning opportunities will extend through the summer of 2022.


 Franklin to the Fort Community Conversation from Fall, 2021

In fall 2021, Missoula Invest Health collaborative engaged with the Missoula City-County Health Dept. and the University of Montana to learn what social and community problems and solutions exist in our Invest Health neighborhoods and to see how our community residents have been affected by the pandemic. Learn what we discovered from a special block of Franklin to Fort neighborhood residents.

Franklin to Fort Community Conversation Presentation             Franklin to Fort Community Conversation Presentation Summary

News & Updates

Past Initiatives

Invest Health ADU Virtual Convening:  October 5, 6, 7, 9, 13 and 15, 2020

Missoula has been collaborated with 3 other Invest Health Cities and Kol Peterson, an ADU expert based in Portland, Oregon, to offer a series of web meetings over the span of the first two weeks in October.  Each web meeting presented a particular aspect of planning for and accommodating ADUs in a community.  Themes from the web sessions range from health and equity, to financing, communications, enabling, and showcasing particular aspects of ADUs. Each day's theme with associated video and other resources are linked below: 

Day 1: Equity and Access for Health: Why it Matters & How it Relates to ADUs - Part 1 & Part 2

Day 2: Financing and Access to Capital for Low/Fixed Income Homeowners

Day 3: Communications: Dealing with NIMBYism and ADU Development

Day 4: Enabling Environment: Policy & Regulations That Support ADU Development

Day 5: Showcasing ADUs Tour


Social impact Investing in Affordable Housing Research

Roles for Impact Investors in affordable Housing in Missoula County, Montana:

The Missoula Invest Health Team commissioned a research project aimed at exploring social impact investment models for Missoula housing.  The research was conducted and written by Rosalie Sheehy Cates, Senior Advisor, The Giving Practice. The Research Report identifies strategies that might leverage impact investment to increase and maintain affordable housing in Missoula.  The report was finalized in October, 2020 and can be found here.  

Missoula Invest Health Displacement Risk Ratio Analysis and Webinar Information

The Displacement Risk Ratio Analysis is a project supported by Missoula Invest Health.  It is an analysis that was developed by the Reinvestment Fund that helps to identify areas where residents may face involuntary displacement by comparing changes in the ratio between housing sales price to median household income over time. 

The analysis was presented by Alana Kim, Policy Analyst, Reinvestment Fund, and Dr. Michael Norton, Chief Policy Analyst, Reinvestment Fund at a webinar on September 17, 2020. The video recording of the webinar can be found here.  The Reinvestment Fund presentation can be found here. The Missoula Invest Health portion of the presentation can be found here.