Cardinale Associates, LLC

Public Affairs & Community Relations Services

About Cardinale Associates, LLC

Pamela A. Koprowski (nee’ Cardinale) is an accomplished public affairs executive with more than three decades of PUBLIC RELATIONS, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS and COMMUNITY RELATIONS experience, including strategic communications, program development, planning management and project execution.

Pam is a change agent with the proven ability to develop and nurture relationships, and to motivate people to collective action.

Building on her decade of experience as Director of Public Affairs at STAMFORD HOSPITAL, Pam continues to provide community relations counsel to that institution, and is a key member of the hospital’s COMMUNITY HEALTH and VITA HEALTH AND WELLNESS initiatives.

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Pam Koprowski of Cardinale Associates with Congressman John Larson of Connecticut at Government Affairs AHA/CHA Advocacy Day 2016

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The Vita initiative, a partnership of CHARTER OAK COMMUNITIES, STAMFORD HOSPITAL and the CITY OF STAMFORD, is a forward thinking effort to address the social determinants of health in Stamford’s West Side. Arising from a community-engaged strategic plan, Vita has sponsored development of new mixed-income housing communities, a volunteer-powered urban farm, among other innovative programs, to create a health-focused neighborhood. Please visit www.vitastamford.com

The power of collaboration, and the recognition that complex social challenges require multi-sector solutions, has led to the establishment of the Social Innovation Platform and Dovetail to support sustainable, holistic solutions and greater social impact.

Presentations
Case Studies
Vita Grants
Presentations

An engaging and motivating speaker, Ms. Koprowski has presented the Vita Stamford story to:

Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI): Annual National Conference and Webinar, Dallas, 2015

National Housing Coalition: The Role of Anchor Institutions in Restoring Neighborhoods, New Orleans, March, 2016.

Urban Land Institute: Health by the Square Foot – Development Strategies for a New Era of Healthcare, Westchester/Fairfield Chapter, New York, 2016

Trust for America’s Health: Building Health & Wellbeing: Lessons Learned from Transformative Partnerships in Community Development & Health, Webinar, 2016

National Alliance of Community & Economic Development Associations (NACEDA): National Health and Housing Symposium, Cleveland, 2016

Case Studies

The Vita Health and Wellness initiative continues to garner national attention, having been the subject of the following, and pending, case studies:

America’s Essential Hospitals

Leveraging Anchor Institutions to Foster Health Communities

Urban Institute Case Study: Tapping into a Collective Vision – Emerging Strategies for Integrating Health and Housing

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Case Study: Stamford Hospital Anchors the Vita Health and Wellness District

Build Healthy Places Network: Community Close Up: Vita Health & Wellness District, Stamford CT, 2015 www.buildhealtyplaces.org

National Housing Conference: The Role of Anchor Institutions in Restoring Neighborhoods – Health Institutions As a Catalyst for Affordable Housing and Community Development, 2016 www.nhc.org

National Alliance of Community and Economic Development Associations: From Guard Towers to Gardens, 2016 www.naceda.org

Vita Grants

In addition to weaving together many local resources, the Vita and Health Initiative is a proud recipient of funding from national foundations and federal agencies:

Roadmaps to Health Action: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Invest Health: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Reinvestment Fund

Sustainable Communities – Community Challenge: US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)

Region 1 Healthy Communities: US Department of Environmental Protection (EPA)

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