ANCHOR (Assisting Needs and Community Health, Opportunity and Resiliency) emerged as a community rapid response effort to the COVID-19 and systemic racism pandemics; functioning as a bridge between systems, sectors, organizations, grassroots efforts and community members.

We utilize a top-down/bottom-up, asset-based community development model to create collective action by addressing both urgent needs as well as roots cause issues toward diversity, equity, inclusion.