The Alliance for Community Transformations (ACT) is a community-based, grassroots coalition working together to improve the health of individuals. The group's mission is to empower, mobilize and inspire communities to act in collaboration towards greater health and sustainable change. To achieve this, the group's efforts focus on work in the areas of Healthy Community Design, Youth Empowerment & Engagement, Substance Abuse/Tobacco Use Prevention, and Healthy & Active Living. Through a close working relationship with its fiduciary agency, the Bennington County Regional Commission (BCRC), ACT is able to engage in projects that are advancing Healthy Community Design work in the Bennington area. The BCRC provides planning and community development assistance to towns in Bennington County, allowing ACT to engage in projects that drive systematic changes, which will have greater long-term impacts on community health in the region.