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Preserving and evolving the invaluable service of public transit is crucial to communities, now and for decades to come. Learn more about what we do as an Association: https://bit.ly/3pJjkHW

Explore the impact of Alabama's strategic initiatives, linking local businesses and workforce stakeholders for a stronger, more resilient community. Learn more in this second installment of a series of state policy blogs: https://lnkd.in/dS5hsj8Z

In 2023, your support changed that by helping IJM provide the resources and training needed by local authorities to provide rescue and urgent relief to those who need it most. Read more stories of restoration in our 2023 Year in Review: https://ow.ly/44fW50R9kiI #untilallarefree

As we develop reparative spatial justice strategies that reckon with, repair, and transform the racist foundations of land and housing policies in the United States, we are reminded that it is essential that we decommodify, rematriate, and increase accessibility to land for Indigenous, Black, and POC communities. Join PolicyLink and the Center for Ethical Land Transition as we discuss how communities, funders, policymakers, and landowners can advance this work, so that we may all deepen our relationships to land and upend the logics of dispossession that underpin our property system. https://lnkd.in/gFPfpq4y

With five pillars at the center of this movement: Safety, Integrity, Growth, Progress, and Community, we aim to reclaim our right as a county to dictate our destiny. https://bit.ly/3t5Iy4h

Part of the Governor's Central City Task Force focused on the need for greater public-private collaboration. This list is a good start to the many concrete ways in which individuals, community organizations, and employers can be a part of the solutions we want to urgently see - the more entities lean into these opportunities with meaningful resources, the faster and stronger our recovery will be: https://lnkd.in/g4GCURth

Mindset challenge of the day: "Engaging children and young people in the planning process offers the opportunity to understand a place from both the perspective of its most vulnerable but also most present experts". How do you view the voices of out Youth and children when you engage with them? So you really seek them out, listen to them and see them as experts? If not? Why not? and How can you do this Better? This is how Touched by Olivia has co-created community-led inclusive play and passive recreation spaces that are owned, loved and used by all, and are full day after day, year after year after year. Ask the kids first....It works!

I'm on a panel at this forum next week, to talk about how we deal with the risk of modern slavery in renewable energy supply chains. As the forum will show, this is not a challenge unique to renewable energy, but our industry needs to be part of a solution to this global problem. Looking forward to the discussion.

it's a big week! the very first NSW Anti-Slavery Forum starts tomorrow 📢 check out the two-day program below for a snapshot of what's to come! *stay tuned* for my reflections over the next two days & pls feel free to engage by sharing any of your thoughts, comments, questions or concerns. #AntiSlaveryForum #modernslavery #bizhumanrights #susty #esg

The CVI Action Plan is here! Driven by the expertise of our grantees, this plan charts a powerful course to reduce violence and foster safer communities. Explore the executive summary for the key strategies leading the way forward: https://loom.ly/IYjRorc