Tapping the Power of City Hall to Build Equitable Communities: 17 Promising Practices
Programs and Strategies from Cities with Agendas that Address Inequalities—Economic, Racial, Social and Political.
The following Promising Practices are intended to provide city officials with examples of programs and initiatives that support and carry out local strategies for increasing equity and improving the quality of life and economic opportunities for low-income residents. The links to the promising practices, below, are organized into six categories based on what aspect of an equity agenda the program supports. This report is a companion piece to Tapping the Power of City Hall to Create Equitable Communities: 10 City Profiles.
Getting Started — Educating Your Community
Savannah: “Welcome to the State of Poverty” Poverty Simulation
Building Collaborative Partnerships
Kalamazoo: Partners Building Community
Burlington: The Legacy Project
Dayton: Targeted Community-Based Collaborative
Gathering Data to ‘Make the Case’
Charlotte: Neighborhood Quality of Life Assessments
Burien: Demographics Project
Baltimore: The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
Maintaining Participatory Governance Processes
Rochester: NeighborLink Network
San Jose: Neighborhood Advisory Committees
Dealing with Issues of Race
Dayton: Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations
Kalamazoo: Summit on Racism
Indianapolis: Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Program
Innovative Service Delivery Programs
Savannah: Hospital Patient Transporter Training
Burien: New Futures
Burlington: Good News Garage
Burlington: NeighborKeepers, Inc.
San Jose: Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund
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