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AbstractThis work was conducted as part of a project with the Urban Research Interest Group, an initiative sponsored by the Urban Affairs Programs, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, the Institute of Public Policy and Social Research, and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University. Related work was completed in partnership with Jodi Summers Holtrop and Sissi Burch.

AbstractIn an era when health policymaking is a cacophony of conflicting agendas and the media's focus is constantly
shifting, how does a private foundation that is committed to producing valuable health policy information place that
material into the hands of people most in need of it? And what measures should a foundation employ to
determine whether its communication efforts are achieving this effect? These questions have become more
important for a number of foundations that award most of their grants for health‐related purposes and have
concluded that providing information to health policymakers and the media should be a major priority of their
organization.

In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in the role and influence of nonprofit organizations in local and regional policy decisions. Often, these organizations assume a quasi-govern-mental role in pursuit of their missions. Roles of coalition builder and policy initiator/formulator join more traditional roles of service provider and policy advocate. These emerging roles forge new relationships between the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors. In Detroit, there is evidence that nonprofit organizations such as New Detroit and Detroit Renaissance can play a role in redefining the local political agenda. Yet that role is severely limited if such organizations are not tied to public authority.

The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. The urban landscape around the world is littered with sites contaminated with a variety of toxins produced by past use. Both public and private sector actors are often reluctant to make significant investments in properties that simultaneously pose significant potential human health issues, and may demand complex and very expensive cleanups. The chapters in this volume recognize that land and water contamination are now almost universally acknowledged to be key social, economic, and political issues. How multiple societies have attempted to craft and implement public policy to deal with these issues provides the central focus of the book. The volume is unique in that it provides a global comparative perspective on brownfield policy and examples of its use in a variety of countries.