Seattle Foundation and King County recently awarded grants to 18 community partners to advance systems and policy change to improve health, social, and economic outcomes in the region. This $2.8 million in funding is made through Communities of Opportunity’s Systems and Policy Change strategy.
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Common Future & The Bento Society have partnered in support of the launch of the Library of Economic Possibility (LEP) — a new research and media platform. LEP's mission is to advance public knowledge of economic policies that may help build a thriving 21st century economy.
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To support continuous improvement and learning for equitable contracting work COO sought to document where and how COO has been successful in creating more equitable procurement processes, particularly in the area of contracting, and what gaps continue to exist. The Equitable Contracting Report here, summarized a review of King County COO Community Service Agreements and Consultant Contract processes, best practices from the field, and themes from key informant interviews with COO community partners.
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Learn more about crafting effective messages and getting audiences with local government to meet your goals. Build relationships and reputations that facilitate generative partnerships and ways to influence public leadership and represent your community.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has redefined nearly every process and task. This workshop will look at the digital tools for communicating at various levels (team members, clients, community members, funders) that can keep us socially connected while physically distant. These tools can be power campaigns even without pandemic restrictions.
Read MoreBuilding intercommunity coalitions. How to be in solidarity with those communities under most threat, even when not your own. Starting and maintaining alliances during COVID-19. Workshop featuring guest speaker Colleen Echohawk-Hayashi.
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More than 60 community members came together on January 9th to learn more about the Community Real Estate Stewardship Team (CREST)'s development projects and what it means to own and control land as a community. Watch the recorded presentation here.
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Communities of Opportunity & Healthy and Safe Environments initiatives panel at the first annual Best Starts for Kids Summit: “Youth, Family and Community Led Movements for Systems Change: How young people and families work upstream to impact inequities by race and place”
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Communities of Opportunity Resilience and Response awards will address inequities in housing, health, and economic opportunity. Grantees will receive $1.275 million to promote change in policies and systems for communities most impacted by COVID-19 in King County.
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Moving into the next phase of COO, a Policy and Systems Cohort was envisioned to ensure community experts inform and guide a set of systems and policy recommendations at the intersection of community connection, economic development, health and housing.
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